%C2%A9 Estate of Norma Bassett Hall
Tourrettes-sur-Loup, 1928-1929
Norma Bassett Hallexpand_more
Color woodcutexpand_more
Gift of Marla J. Kinneyexpand_more 2017.85
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Today the hilltop town of Tourrettes-sur-Loup in southern France looks a lot like it did when Norma Bassett Hall saw it in 1926. Situated near the Mediterranean Sea, the village was a favorite target of invaders in ancient times, which is why it is surrounded by thick, high walls. (In the town’s name, sur means “on,” and Loup refers to a nearby river.) Hall seems to have just skimmed her woodblocks with color to imitate the rusticated look of medieval stone. Rather than outline the architecture and landscape in black, a feature of the Japanese woodblock prints she admired, she softened the sheet by printing the details a brownish clay color. The purplish color in the upper sky could have been Hall’s way of evoking the town’s most famous industry: growing violets.
Details
- Title
- Tourrettes-sur-Loup
- Artist Life
- 1889–1957
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2017.85
- Provenance
- Private collection, California (until 2017; consigned to Saunders); [Reuben Saunders Gallery, Wichita, Kans., 2017]
- Curator Approved
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