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Woodcut: A Technical Appreciation

Stephen Goddard, curator

White Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Prints from the Spencer collection are featured in this exhibition, which includes a precious metalcut page from a book printed around 1500, Renaissance and Baroque masterworks, delicate nineteenth-century wood engravings, and commanding expressionist prints from the early twentieth century and the 1980s. Organized by the Spencer Museum.

Works of art

Iohannes Bämler (active circa 1450–1475); Artist Unknown, The Bride of Christ (1 column of text & illustration) from Buch der Kunst, da durch der weltliche Mensch mag geistlich werden (Book of Art through which the worldly man may become spiritual)

Parmigianino (1503–1540), Circe and the Companions of Ulysses

Death of Absalom from the Lübeck Bible

Josef Albers (1888–1976), Above the Water

Max Beckmann (1884–1950), Self-portrait

Emile Bernard (1868–1941), La Lessive (The Laundry)

Thomas Bewick (1753–1828), The Yellow Macauco; The Ring-Tailed Macauco

Nicoló Boldrini (active 1530–1570); Titian (1485 or 1490–1576), Caricature of the Laocoön represented as a Monkey in a Landscape

Richard Bosman (born 1944), Mutiny

Roger Brown (1941–1997), Family Tree Mourning Print

John E. Buck (born 1946); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004), Les Grandes Eclipse

Asa Cheffetz (1896–1965), Clouds over Enfield (Connecticut)

Chuck Close (1940–2021); Crown Point Press; Tadashi Toda (1936–2000); Shunza Matsuda, Leslie

Timothy Cole (1852–1931), Landscape with Windmill

Bartolomeo Coriolano (circa 1599–circa 1676); Guido Reni (1575–1642), Sibyl

Robert Cumming (1943–2021); Vinalhaven Press (active 1985–1999), Odessa

Ernest Hubert Deines (1894–1967), Joy on the Kaw Valley Loam

Jim Dine (born 1935), Bathrobe

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), The Triumphal Car of Emperor Maximilian I

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), The Apocalyptic Woman

Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956), Hafen (Port)

Erich Heckel (1883–1970), Liegende (Reclining figure)

Winslow Homer (1836–1910), On the Bluff at Long Branch at the Bathing House

Helen Hyde (1868–1919), New Year's Day, Tokyo

John Baptist Jackson (circa 1701–circa 1780); Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), The Presentation in the Temple (Circumcision)

Vassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Kleine Welten VI (Small Worlds VI)

Clare Leighton (1898 or 1899–1989), Breaking Camp

Auguste Louis Lepère (1849–1918), La Seine au Pont d'Austerlitz

Franz Marc (1880–1916), Reitschule (Riding School)

Emil Nolde (1867–1956), Familie

Henri Rivière (1864–1951), Petit vague montante, pointe de La Haye (Small Wave Rising, Pointe de la Haye) (L'Eume apres la Vague)

Susan Rothenberg (1945–2020), Doubles

David Salle (born 1952); Crown Point Press; Tadashi Toda (1936–2000); Shunza Matsuda, Portrait with Scissors and Nightclub

Birger Sandzén (1871–1954), Sentinel Pines

Jeanette Pasin Sloan (born 1946); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004), Boston Red

Carol Summers (1925–2016), Athos

Félix Edouard Vallotton (1865–1925), Les Nécrophores (The Pall Bearers)

Max Weber (1881–1961), Standing Figure

H. C. Westermann (1922–1981), Airplane and Building

H. C. Westermann (1922–1981), envelope

Anton Maria Zanetti (1680–1757); Parmigianino (1503–1540), Young man standing

Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1864), Portrait of the actor Bando Hikosaburō V as Iwasuji

Inbutsu (stamp print) of Fudō Myōō

Hagiwara Hideo (1913–2007), Memories of the East

Hashiguchi Goyō (1880–1921), Woman kneeling before mirror

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), #53 Kusatsu kara Yabase wa michi no yumi to tsuru (Sailing from Kusatsu to Yabase)

Kawachi Seikō (born 1948), Katsura X

Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1864), four actors from the play, "The 4 Modern Guardians Kings Return from Mt.Oyama"

Takahashi Rikio (1917–1999), The Letter (From Kyoto)

月岡芳年 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), Fuwa Bansaku and the Monster

月岡芳年 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), Fuwa Bansaku and the Monster

月岡芳年 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), Priest Raigō of Mii Temple Transformed into a Rat

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), #14 Hara, Kambara, Yoshiwara, Yui, Okitsu