Dragon and Orchard

Description

Dow carved these blocks, two of them on both sides, for Dragon and Orchard. Influenced by his own cyanotypes (an early photographic process that produced blue images), he printed this impression, a nocturnal version, in ten shades of blue.

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Dragon and Orchard

Arthur Wesley Dow

c. 1908

Accession Number

1999.325.4

Medium

woodblock

Dimensions

Overall: 25.5 x 18.7 x 2.1 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 x 13/16 in.)

Classification

Woodblock

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

John L. Severance Fund