Visit to Aunt Ida

Edward Landon, American, 1911 - 1984

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1950

Screenprint on wove paper

8/25

Sheet: 13 1/4 × 15 in. (33.7 × 38.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

PR.952.3

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

On view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right: E Landon 1950; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: Visit to Aunt Ida 8/25

Label

One must wonder what Edward Landon thought of visiting Aunt Ida, given this maze-like apparatus surrounding a keyhole. Is one locked in or locked out of this space? Inspired by surrealism, Landon’s print leaves us pondering while we linger on a modern 1940s wallpaper design likely inspired by Dorothy Draper, a notoriously anti-minimalist and prolific designer who was active in the early to mid-20th century.

From the 2024 exhibition Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art, curated by Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art

Exhibition History

Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 18, 2024 - late 2025.

Provenance

Boston Society of Independent Artists; sold to present collection, 1952.

Catalogue Raisonne

J. Wechsler, Edward Landon, New York, 1994, no. 222.

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