Seaside Landscape, c. 1910-1915
Elizabeth Colwellexpand_more
Color woodcut on Japan paperexpand_more
Gift of Marla J. Kinneyexpand_more 2017.72.1
Not on Viewexpand_more
The unbridled U.S. industrialization at the turn of the 20th century spurred nostalgia for rural life. That may have motivated this landscape by Elizabeth Colwell. She was born in rural Michigan but lived in Chicago, then the country’s second biggest city. There she met B. J. O. Nordfeldt, whose work hangs nearby. He taught Colwell to cut, ink, and print her own woodblocks—a novel practice for a midwestern woman in the 1910s. The elevated viewpoint and the patterning in the avocado-green fields show her interest in Japanese design elements.
Details
- Title
- Seaside Landscape
- Artist Life
- 1881–1954
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2017.72.1
- Provenance
- Private collection (until 2015; sold to Paramour); [Paramour Fine Arts, Franklin, Mich.; 2015-2017]
- Curator Approved
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