Desert Wall, Paul Hambleton Landacre

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Paul Hambleton Landacre, Desert Wall
Paul Hambleton Landacre, Desert Wall
Paul Hambleton Landacre
Desert Wall
1932
Paul Hambleton Landacre
1893–1963
Desert Wall, 1932
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: wove paper; wood engraving
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 140 x 180 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 227 x 291 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 5 1/2 x 7 1/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 8 15/16 x 11 7/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 11 x 14 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Gift of Steven Schmidt, Class of 1958
Accession number: 2000.0148
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Inspired by Japan," Mar-2003, Cori Sherman California wood engraver Paul Landacre’s Japonisme appears in his composition choices, as well as in his use of a small seal as part of his personal signature. Though Landacre’s prints are all in simple black and white, his landscapes show an amazing range of detail and depth. This scene of massive geologic forms in the American desert, dwarfing the human presence of houses clustered at the base, is executed in a very different manner from Hiroshige’s landscape scenes of Japanese sites. Landacre uses line rather than interlocking color areas to describe planes and shapes, but the panoramic views are strikingly similar.