Storm

Paul Landacre, American, 1893 - 1963

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1934

Wood engraving on Japanese laid paper

Block: 7 15/16 × 10 3/16 in. (20.1 × 25.9 cm)

Sheet: 10 5/8 × 15 15/16 in. (27 × 40.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a bequest from Philip H. Greene

2019.35

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, lower right below image: Paul Landacre; titled and inscribed, in graphite, lower left below image: 44/60 Storm; inscribed, in red pencil, lower right: [petrel design]

Label

The consummate skill of master wood engraver Paul Landacre is on full display in this depiction of a storm. Rain lashes down from heavy clouds, driven by wind into a series of fine parallel lines. The same gale bends the tree into a semicircle, its form carefully mirrored in the arcing waves below. Reducing the landscape to geometric forms, Landacre’s graphic style intimately evokes the tumult of a raging thunderstorm.

From the 2022 exhibition This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, curated by Jami C. Powell, Curator of Indigenous Art; Barbara J. MacAdam, former Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art; Thomas H. Price, former Curatorial Assistant; Morgan E. Freeman, former DAMLI Native American Art Fellow; and Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art

Course History

ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022

GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022

ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022

ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022

ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022

ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022

ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022

SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022

Exhibition History

This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20- July 24, 2022.

Provenance

Private collection; sold to Catherine Burns Fine Art, Berkeley, California; sold to present collection, 2019.

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