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American soil, reforestation – Antique Print

American soil, reforestation, 1935 — historic print
American soil, reforestation, 1935. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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As the center panel of a triptych, this 1935 woodcut by Helen West Heller treats reforestation as an allegory, a form that turns a land-management idea into symbolic images. The year matters. Through the 1930s, severe soil erosion and the Dust Bowl drew national attention to land abuse, and tree planting became a central response, most visibly through the Civilian Conservation Corps. Heller's woodcut joins that moment of public concern, when many artists addressed the health of the American landscape. The print is signed and dated in pencil and carries a monogram on the block.

Created / published1935
Medium1 print : woodcut.
NotesWoodcut by Helen West Heller, 1885-1955. Center of a triptych. No. 25. Signed on block with a monogram. Signed and dated in pencil. Pennell Fund. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Forests; Allegory.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,235 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149450

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