Visit to Aunt Ida
Edward Landon, American, 1911 - 1984
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
Research Area
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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