Dorpshuizen or De Dode Boom (Village Houses or The Dead Tree), Jan Toorop

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1858–1928
Dorpshuizen or De Dode Boom (Village Houses or The Dead Tree), 1897
Where object was made: Belgium
Material/technique: drypoint; wove paper; vellum
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 170 x 147 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 315 x 239 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 6 11/16 x 5 13/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 12 3/8 x 9 7/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund and Friends of the Art Museum
Accession number: 1999.0003
Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture," Mar-2009, Steve Goddard
The dead tree in Toroop’s delicate drypoint now serves as a fencepost, though it undoubtedly once shaded the yard of this house in Katwijk aan Zee, a town on the Dutch coast facing the North Sea.

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