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Arthur Wesley Dow Color Woodcut "The Emerson House." browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Prints:Woodcuts: Pre 1910: item # 807055 Please refer to our stock # 2569D when inquiring.
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| Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922). "The Emerson House/ Where they waited for the tide/ Good wishes from the Dows and old Ipswich." Color woodcut: colored inks on paper 3.75 x 2.85 inches. Archival frame: 11.75 x 10.75 inches overall. Provenance Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York. An extremely rare, possibly now unique piece of Dowiana, a woodcut "greeting", possibly for Christmastime, from the hand of the eminent painter, printmaker, photographer and teacher--the driving force of the arts and crafts movement and an important proponent of the aesthetics of "Japonisme" in America. Dow purchased the Emerson homestead in 1900 to serve as the textile weaving annex for his Ipswich Summer School of Art. It was built by Thomas Emerson, baker and ancestor of famed essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson. It commands a prominent site on the east bank of the Ipswich River. Now known as the Emerson-Howard House, it was given by Dow's widow in 1929 to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (Historic New England) to stand as a monument to Dow's ideals. | ||
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