The Long Road--Argilla Road, Ipswich

Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
In the 1890s, Arthur Wesley Dow discovered the art of Japan through his close friendship with Ernest Fenollosa (1853–1908), America’s leading Asian art expert and curator at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. For Dow, Japanese art represented a radical departure from what he perceived as the stagnant style of naturalism dominating his early oeuvre and the Boston art world. He explored his new sensibility in color woodcuts, such as this one, that render a landscape as an almost abstract arrangement of colors and shapes. Dow’s ideas were disseminated widely through his roles as a curator, teacher, and author of the influential art book Composition (1899), which was heavily illustrated with Japanese examples.
Caption
Arthur Wesley Dow American, 1857–1922. The Long Road--Argilla Road, Ipswich, ca. 1898. Color woodcut, Sheet: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 in. (13.7 x 21.6 cm) Image: 4 1/4 x 7 1/16 in. (10.8 x 17.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Alfred T. White Fund, 1999.115. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1999.115_PS1.jpg)
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Not on view
Collection
Gallery
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Collection
Artist
Title
The Long Road--Argilla Road, Ipswich
Date
ca. 1898
Medium
Color woodcut
Classification
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 in. (13.7 x 21.6 cm) Image: 4 1/4 x 7 1/16 in. (10.8 x 17.9 cm)
Inscriptions
Inscription in graphite, bottom edge: "3rd. Jan. 24 - '98 - "
Credit Line
Alfred T. White Fund
Accession Number
1999.115
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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