Stern timbers – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Stern timbers. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The stern timbers of a wooden vessel, the heavy framework at the back of a hull, are the subject of this 1941 woodcut, which the artist signed with initials on the block and again in pencil. Woodcut was a favored medium among American printmakers of the late 1930s and 1940s, prized for bold areas of black and the visible grain of the wood, qualities that suit the weathered planks and braces of an old ship. The Library of Congress acquired the sheet through its Pennell fund, and Karen Beall's 1970 catalog of the library's American prints lists it.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut ; 25.2 x 20 cm. |
| Notes | Signed with initials and dated on plate; 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. 325. Purchase; Pennell fund. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,226 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137354 |
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