Yucatan – Historic Print
(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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A window into the past: Yucatan, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Yucatan, the low limestone peninsula at the southeastern corner of Mexico, is the subject of this color woodcut by Mary Gehr, made in 1959. Woodcut was a favored medium among American printmakers of the mid-twentieth century, who prized its bold flat areas of color and the visible grain of the block. This impression is numbered 4 of 9 and signed and dated in pencil by the artist, which marks it as one of a small limited edition. It is printed on Basingwerk Parchment, a paper stock, and was acquired through the Pennell Fund.
| Created / published | 1959 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color. |
| Notes | Woodcut by Mary Gehr. 4/9. Signed and dated in pencil. Watermark: Basingwerk Parchment. Pennell Fund 60-15. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,128 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149446 |
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