Rimini, Ethel Mars

Artwork Overview

Ethel Mars, Rimini
Ethel Mars, Rimini
Ethel Mars
Rimini
1906
Rimini, 1906
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: color woodcut
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 176 x 148 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 6 15/16 x 5 13/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 11 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund and Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund
Accession number: 2000.0123
Not on display
Add to portfolio

If you wish to reproduce this image, please submit an image request

Images

Label texts

Exhibition Label: "Inspired by Japan," Mar-2003, Cori Sherman International traveler Ethel Mars settled in Paris by 1907, where she and her lifelong companion Maud Hunt Squire concentrated on their woodcut printmaking. The outbreak of World War I prompted a temporary move back to the United States, where they helped establish the Provincetown Printers association at the Massachusetts art colony. B.J.O. Nordfeldt is credited with developing the “one-block method” of color woodcut printing, which requires deep grooves be cut in blocks to separate color areas and prevent blending so that colors could be printed simultaneously. However, colleague Blanche Lazelle called Mars the true “originator of the work which led up to the Provincetown Print.” In this earlier woodcut of an Italian coastal scene, Mars uses more traditional ukiyoe methods to translate watery reflections into color arrangement, using successive color blocks in careful registration.