Kazakh field – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare antique engraving captures Kazakh field in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Kazakh field
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The title points to the Kazakh steppe, where the Turkic-speaking Kazakh people were traditionally herders moving with their livestock across open grassland. In the 1950s, Soviet agricultural campaigns converted large stretches of that land into cultivated fields, a change that shaped the region's landscape and its people's way of life. The print combines etching and engraving, a technique that lets a printmaker pair softly bitten tonal areas with sharper, hand-cut lines. The artist's pencil signature and date, written by hand on the sheet, identify the work as dated 1965.
| Created / published | 1965 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching and engraving ; 45.3 x 60.5 cm. |
| Notes | Signed and dated in pencil. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 538. Purchase; Pennell fund. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,175 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125545 |
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