Arthur Wesley Dow
Marsh Creek
1899-1909
Physical Qualities
Color woodcut, Sheet: 138 x 198 mm. (5 7/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Image: 109 x 177 mm. (4 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Print & Drawing Society Fund
Object Number
1999.523
The woodblock at right was used to print the woodcut at left, specifically the lightest purple area where the shore meets the blue water of the creek. Each color in the image was printed from a differently carved woodblock. Arthur Wesley Dow was a devoted student of Japanese woodblock printing and traveled to Japan in 1903. "Marsh Creek", created shortly after the trip, is one of Dow’s simplest compositions, evoking an expanse of space with only a handful of shapes and colors.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York; Estate of the artist
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 'Along Ipswich River The Color Woodcuts of Arther Wesley Dow' October 21, - November 20, 1999, no. 60 BMA, 'New on View,' June 19-Oct. 6, 2002.
Rena Hoisington and Morgan Dowty, BMA, "A Golden Anniversary: Celebrating 50 Years of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society," Rotation 1: 29 August 2018 - 17 February 2019.
Rena Hoisington and Morgan Dowty, BMA, "A Golden Anniversary: Celebrating 50 Years of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society," Rotation 1: 29 August 2018 - 17 February 2019.
David Acton and Joseph Goddu, ALONG IPSWICH RIVER THE COLOR WOODCUTS OF ARTHUR WESLEY DOW (New York, 1999), Nancy E. Green, ARTHUR WESLEY DOW AND HIS INFLUENCE, exh. cat. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, 1990), pp. 11, 23
Signed: 6
