Fred Geary--Swept Up By The Revival: Contemporary Woodcuts - 1932

The forty-one woodcut artists Alfred Fowler selected in 1932 came from all backgrounds. Thirty-one were Americans, six were Europeans and four were undetermined at the publishing of this post. Some had been doing woodcuts for some time. Titles within this exhibit are listed in orange.
Image sizes were determined from the Nelson-Atkins Museum Print Collection. Additional information and 2011 Internet links have been listed beneath each artist where possible. The workmanship of this collection is a testament to the critical eye of Alfred Fowler. Thank you Alfred for introducing these superb woodcuts to all of us throughout the States. KM

Grace Albee - bio - from Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Cyclamen,1932, wood engraving, 6 by 4 inches, 6/20 Sixth of twenty hand-pulled impressions.
On The Canal - Lac d'Annecy, 1932, wood engraving, 7 by 8 1/2 inches, 9/100 Ninth of one hundred hand-pulled impressions.
(There is a full bio and two hundred and thirty relief prints at www.raisonne.org, sponsored by the Childs Gallery Inc. You must log in with a user name and password, but it is well worth it. Her woodcut was selected for the First International Exhibition of the Lithography and Wood Engraving in 1929.)

Anne Anderson - bio - from Scotland, U. K.

A Tree, woodcut, 12 by 11 7/8 inches, 1/7 First of seven hand-pulled impressions.

(See other example ABOVE, Provincetown Gossip 1930, click on photo. See other example click HERE . She was listed as a book illustrator and here. The Smithsonian Museum offers these other examples of her etching. There may be more than one Anne Anderson)

Thomas Barrett - bio - from Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.A.

Home Brew, 1932, 7 15/16 by 6 inches, 7/50 Seventh of fifty hand-pulled impressions.

Mount Mondadnock, 1932, 6 by 8 inches, 26/40 Twenty-sixth of forty hand-pulled impressions.

Riding Hall, West Point

Steam Roller, 1932, wood engraving, 6 by 7 15/16 inches, 13/50 Thirteenth of fifty hand-pulled impressions.

Ray Bethers - bio and this - Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A.

Taxco, woodcut, 4 by 4 7/8 inches.

"Artist, world traveler, engraver and illustrator, Ray Bethers is best known through his wood engravings...[O]ne of the most popular of his wood-engravings of Mexican scenes is "Taxco." It was exhibited in the collection of the California Society of Etchers, which toured the principal large cities in the country. It was acquired for the permanent collection of the Woodcut Society of Kansas City. A print of "Taxco" is in the private collection of John H. Cully, Los Angeles. Seven of Ray Bethers' engravings from this traveling exhibition were sold; two are in the permanent collection of the Texas College for Women. Several were sold in the San Francisco Museum of Art."Taxco" was also shown in 1934 at the International Exhibition of Wood- Engravers and Lithographers at the Art Institute of Chicago. "Taxco" and "Thatched Roofs" were exhibited at the show of the Rocky Mountain Print Makers at the Denver Art Museum of 1934." (courtesy of California Art Research by Gene Haile, http://www.archive.org/stream/californiaartres18hai/californiaartres18hail_djvu.txt, accessed January 1, 2011)

Will Collins --- 1892 - 1979, American
origin unknown ?

Rain Washed, 1932, woodcut, 9 3/8 by 6 7/8 inches.

Jessiejo Eckford - bio and this - from Dallas. Texas, U.S.A.

Dark Cedars, 1932, woodcut, 4 7/8 by 6 1/2 inches, 6/25 Sixth of twenty-five hand-pulled impressions.

Near Monterray, 1932, woodcut, 5 3/8 by 7 1/2 inches, 9/25 Ninth of twenty-five hand-pulled impressions.

Peaceful Landscape, 1932, woodcut, 6 1/8 by 8 1/8 inches, 9/25 Ninth of twenty-five hand-pulled impressions.

The Lineman, 1932, woodcut, 8 by 5 7/8 inches, 12/25 Twelfth of twenty-five hand-pulled impressions.

Dorothy Lizzete Eisenbach - bio - Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.

Untitled, 1932, 10 by 12 13/16 inches.

Josie Eresch - bio - from Beloit, Kansas, U.S.A.

Sheep on Plum Creek, 1932, 3 by 4 1/2 inches.

Main Street, 1932, 4 by 4 1/8 inches. See other example, click HERE . Ms. Eresch was a member of the Kansas Authors Club. She published "Elegant Amusement," Beloit, KS.: Gazette Press, 1937. 32 p. Notes and sketches of Beloit, KS from the summer of 1936. Flower arrangement.)

Hortense Fern - bio - from New York, New York, U.S.A.
Bull Fight, woodcut, 5 1/8 by 8 7/8 inches.
In The Souk, Tunis, woodcut, 7 7/8 by 5 7/8 inches.

Grace Martin Frame - bio - from Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S.A.
Charleston Cottages, 1932, color woodcut, 12 1/8 by 14 1/16 inches.

Trinity Church

Rhea Garber ---- American
origin unknown

The Rabbit Gate, 6 1/8 by 4 3/4 inches.

Water Lilies, color woodcut, 4 1/8 by 6 1/2 inches.

Frances H. Gearhart - bio and this - from Sagetown, Illinois, U.S.A.
Day Departs, 1933, color woodcut, 11 by 9 3/4 inches, click here
Valley Ramparts, 1932, color woodcut, 10 3/16 by 12 inches,click here
Winter Looks Down On Spring, 1930, color woodcut,11 3/8 by 10, click here
Winter Regalia, 1930, color woodcut, 12 1/4 by 10 1/8 inches, click here
(See other examples click HERE . Images are grouped alphabetically across the top of page)
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Fred Geary - bio - from Clarence, Missouri, U.S.A.

New Mexico, (listed as Untitled, Mexican on donkey in Nelson-Atkins Print Collection), woodcut, 4 3/8 by 6 3/4 inches.

Old House in Waverly (listed as Untitled, farm house in the Nelson-Atkins Print Collection)(ABOVE, click on image), woodcut, 4 1/2 by 6 1/8 inches.

Old Maple Tree (listed as Untitled, frame house in the Nelson-Atkins Print Collection)(ABOVE, click photo), woodcut, 4 by 5 3/4 inches.

Steamboat Bixby, (listed as (ABOVE, click photo), woodcut, 6 1/8 by 9 1/2 inches.

Hendrik Glintenkamp - bio and this - from Augusta, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Cofradias, Easter Procession, Seville

Manhattan, Backyards, West 12th Street

Manhattan, Construction, Radio City

Rue Descartes, Paris

The Palace Door, Cathedral, Valencia

Tyne Church, Night, Prague

Vieux Port, Notre Dame de la Garde, Marseilles

(See other example ABOVE, Anis Del Recino 1922, click on image.

See other example ABOVE, Gypsies, Grenada, Spain 1932, click on image. See other examples click HERE)

John F. Greenwood - bio 1 - bio 2 - from Great Britain, U. K.
Darwin's Farm

Halton East

Hebden Road, Grassington

Old Forge, Rievaulx

Pen-y-Ghent

Rievaulx

(See other example ABOVE, Castle Bridge over River 1927, click on image.

See other example ABOVE, Portrait of Judith 1925, click on image. See other examples click HERE and HERE. His wood engravings were selected for the First International Exhibition of the Lithography and Wood Engraving in 1929.)

Another example ABOVE, Cove Lane (1919-1921), click on image. (courtesy of British Printmakers (1855-1955) Garton and Company, Spencer Art Reference Library, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64111, http://www.nelson-atkins.org/welcome/Directions_Map.cfm, accessed Oct 5, 2013)

Dorothy Hay (Jensen) - bio on page 136 - from Cape Elizabeth, Maine, U.S.A.
Million Dollar Bridge, linoleum cut, 6 1/2 by 6 inches.
Purpoodock, linoleum cut.
Shipyard, linoleum cut, 6 5/8 by 6 5/8 inches.

(See other example, ABOVE, Property of the Underwriters, click on picture. See other example, Southwest Section of Portland, linoleum cut, Portland City Guide, page 66, click HERE. See Island Steamers, linoleum cut, Portland City Guide, page 130, click HERE. In 1935 Hay was the Maine State Director for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, page 138)

Helen West Heller - bio - from Rushville, Illinois, U.S.A.

The Barker, 1932, 8 1.2 by 5 7/8 inches.
East Wind,1932, woodcut, 8 x 6 inches. Click HERE

Plowman of India, 1932, 12 3/4 by 9 1/4 inches.

(See other example ABOVE, Pulling Beets 1931, click on image.)

(See another example ABOVE, Dune 1927, click image.

See another example ABOVE, Flight Arrow 1931, click on image. See other examples click HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE. Her woodcut was selected for the First International Exhibition of the Lithography and Wood Engraving in 1929.)

Edith L. Horle - bio - from Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
Advancing, 6 by 4 inches, 9 of 30 Ninth of thirty hand-pulled impressions.

Maude I. Kerns - bio and this (scroll down on link page) and this - from Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
Faces of Depression

Kraemer Kittredge - bio - from Clinton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Aunt Mamie's Parlor

J. J. Lankes - bio - from Buffalo, New York, U.S.A
In North Newport News
Main Street
Troutdale, Virginia

See other example ABOVE, Dawn, 1900, courtesy of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.
See other examples click HERE . His work was selected for the Sixth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Bookplates in 1921. He received the Certificate of Honorable Mention for the personal design for Buddy Lankes, according to The Bookplate Annual For 1921, edited by Alfred Fowler. Lankes woodcuts were selected for the First International Exhibition of the Lithography and Wood Engraving in 1929.)

Blanche Lazzell - bio - from Maidsville, West Virginia, U.S.A.

My Provinetown Studio, 1933, color woodcut, 14 by 12 inches.
(Her woodcuts were selected for the First International Exhibition of the Lithography and Wood Engraving in 1929.

Claire Leighton - bio - from London, England, U.K.

Lambing (typo in catalouge) Lambing, 1933, wood engraving, 28 x 34.5 cm., click HERE

(See other examples click HERE . Her wood engravings were selected for the First Exhibition of the Lithography and Wood Engraving in 1929.)

Bessie Cary Lemly - bio - from Jackson, Michigan, U.S.A.
Cherokees
Yellow Jasmine
(June 4, 1871---Born. Daughter of William S. and Susan Smith Lemly. 1897---Graduated from Belhaven College with a special diploma in art. 1914---Chosen as head of the Art Department at Belhaven College and continued in that position until her retirement in 1941. From 1915-16...Served as business manager of the Belhaven, when the school did not have a President. From 1899-1902 and 1914-1941...Professor of Art, Belhaven College. (courtesy of Charlie Gaudin, Reference / Periodicals Librarian, Warren A. Hood Library, Belhaven University, Box 305,1500 Peachtree Street, Jackson, MS 39202,in an email Tuesday, 25 Jan 2011)

"Bessie Cary Lemly, the next and present instructor at Belhaven (College), at once caught the spirit of growth already begun, and combined with it her own vitality and love for art. It has been said of Miss Lemly that she is one of the few great Art teachers of her time, for though she has not had the number of students nor the equipment of other teachers, she has made herself necessary to Belhaven and her advice is sought throughout the state on Art subjects. She organized both the Art Study Club, of which she is president, and the Mississippi Art Association, of which she was also president for a time, and is one of the eight directors of the Southern States Art League. In Provincetown Miss Lemly studied under Mr. E Amboise Webster. She has also been abroad and enriched her work with an intimate study of the old masters. In the summer of 1926, Miss Lemly, among carefully selected instructors of twenty other colleges throughout the United States, was given a course in Art Appreciation at the Art Institute in Chicago by the Carnegie Corporation which is interested in establishing Art more firmly in the nation. She also did summer work in 1929." (pages 149-150, History of Art in Mississippi by Cantey Venable Sutton, president of the Mississippi Art Association from 1928-1930. It was published by The Dixie Press, Gulfport, Mississippi, courtesy of Jennifer Baughn in an email, Saturday, January, 2011)

Allen Lewis - bio - and this - from Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A.
Two woodcuts in black and white, both titles unknown
Two woodcuts with tint, both titles not given in catalogue.
However, there are two color woodcuts by Lewis in the Nelson-Adkins Print Collection. That information is as follows:

St. Francis Preaching To The Birds, 1933, color woodcut, 9 3/4 by 7 inches,178/200. One hundred and seventy-eighth of two hundred hand-pulled impressions.

Sower, color woodcut, 10 1/4 by 8 1/2 inches. (See more examples click HERE and HERE . Curator Alfred Fowler wrote about Chiaroscuro Bookplates of Allen Lewis in The Bookplate Annual For 1922, click HERE )

Tod Lindenmuth - bio - from Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Dory Fishermen, woodcut, 9 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches.

Dory Fishermen, color woodcut, 11 1/4 by 13 7/8 inches, 2/50 Second of fifty hand-pulled impressions.

New England House Tops

The Riding Light

Alexander Simeon Masley - bio - from Akeley, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Depot Corners, 6 7/8 by 9 inches, 7/25 Seventh of twenty-five hand-pulled impressions.

Sunday Afternoon, 7 1/2 by 10 1/4 inches, 12/25 Twelfth of twenty-five hand-pulled impressions.

(See other example ABOVE, Mendota South 1935, click on image. Another example click HERE )

Thomas Willoughby Nason - bio - from Dracut, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Leaning Silo, 1932, wood engraving, click HERE
Wooded Shore

See an example, Upland Pastures, 1933.

(See other examples click HERE His wood engravings were selected for the First International Exhibition of the Lithography and Wood Engraving in 1929.

Elizabeth Norton - bio and this - from Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
A Winner
Pair of Cairns, 1932, colored block print, 6 1/4 by 7 inches, click HERE
Study in Black and Tan, 1932, color block print, 6 1/4 by 7 inches, fine Japanese machine made paper, click HERE
(Her woodcut was selected for the First International Exhibition of the Lithography and Wood Engraving in 1929.)

Betty Waldo Parrish - bio - from New York
Administration Building, Wellesley, 7 7/8 by 6 inches
Fountain, Smith College, 8 by 6 inches, click HERE
Thompson Memorial, Vassar, 10 by 7 1/2 inches
Wellesley Chapel, 1932, 7 7/8 by 5 7/8 inches, click HERE
(See other examples click HERE )

Wilfred A. Readio ---
origin unknown

On The Divide, 1932, 8 by 9 1/8 inches.

Richardson Rome - bio - from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Deep Blue

High Country, click ABOVE image

Into the Sky, click ABOVE image.

North to Wyoming

Shelter in the Hills, wood block, 7.25 x 5.25 inches, click on ABOVE image.)

Sundown, Garden of the Gods

Sunrise, Garden of the Gods

Birger Sandzen - bio and this from Blidsberg, Sweden, Europe

Blue Valley Farm, woodblock, 9 1/2 by 12 1/2 inches, click HERE
Brook with Poplars, woodblock, 5 by 4 1/2 inches
Coxcombs, click HERE
Creekbank

Kansas Sunflowers, 1932, woodcut, ABOVE, click image.

Old Reservoir, Central City

(See other example ABOVE, Willow And Cottonwoods 1931, linocut, click image )

Ruth Thomson Saunders - no bio found - from Galesburg, Illinois, U.S.A.

Adobe Bell Tower, 3 1/32 by 3 inches.

Against California Hills, 2 1/2 by 3 3/4 inches.

George Bernard Shaw, 2 7/8 by 2 3/8 inches.

(Galesburg native Ruth Thomson operated the Saunders Studio Press with her husband Lynne Saunders in the 1920’s and ‘30’s in Claremont, California. Among the imprints issued by the press were titles on bookplates, a particular interest of Ms.  Saunders. The bookplates exhibited here are representative of the dozens of plates which she designed and printed for friends and libraries in southern  California. (Knox College, http://www.knox.edu/library/special-collections-and-archives/exhibits/the-art-of-the-book.html, accessed 1.23.11.)  She was a Printer, a Typographer, and a Designer. (Memorable Moments: Women Working In Design 1900-1980,http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEPMagazine/Article/28555/0/page/3/index.html, accessed January 23, 2011.) See other examples click HERE)

Ethel Mavis Scott ---
origin unknown ?

Narcissus, color woodcut, 9 7/8 by 7 inches.

May Aimee Smith - no bio found - from England, U.K.
Indian Toy

Spanish Shop

(See other example ABOVE,The Spanish Jar, click on image.)
(Four other examples in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art include Houses, Vase of Flowers, Sheep And Lamb,
and Lady in Booth.

Victor Stuyvaert - bio - from Ghent, Belgium, Europe, (1897- 1974)
A Woodcut, no other title is given.

See above example, click HERE

Ex Libris Miele Louise, click HERE

Bergmans Simone, click HERE

Ex Musius Ans V.D. Kuylen, click HERE

Geerlandt Lea M., click HERE

De Pillecyn F., click HERE.
(courtesy of Lu Boeykens, Internationaal Exlibriscentrum Sint-Niklaas, in an e-mail Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011)
Stuyvaert's work was selected for the Seventh Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Bookplates in 1922. He was listed in a Belgian bookplate portfolio .)

There are two woodcuts by a V.Stuyvsent (a different spelling of the name) in the Nelson-Atkins Print Department. It may have been one or the other. That information is as follows:

Church, woodcut, 3 1/2 by 2 7/8 inches.

OR Portvil, woodcut, 9 7/8 by 7 1/2 inches.
It is UNCLEAR which spelling is correct. Perhaps these are TWO VERY DIFFERENT woodcutters.

Edith Truesdell - bio - from Derby, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Convalescent Boy

Kitchen Work

The Puzzle

Waiting Room

(Ms. Truesdell was an Artist Member of the California Art Club and an Associate Editor of the CAC Bulletin (from Jan. 1929 through about 1931). Her work was accepted in the CAC Exhibitions: 15th Annual, 16th Annual (1925): 17th Annual (1926): 18th Annual (1927): 20th Annual (1929): 21st Annual (1930): 22nd Annual (1931): 23rd Annual (1924); (1932). (California Art Club, http://www.californiaartclub.org/history/history_cacpastmem_s-z.shtml#T, accessed 1.23.11.)

Zona Lorraine Wheeler - bio and this - from Linsborg, Kansas, U.S.A.

Deserted House, 5 3/4 by 7 1/4 inches.(courtesy of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art) The same image can be seen HERE.

Summer in the Smoky Valley, 3 7/8 by 5 inches.

Donald Frederick Witherstine - bio - from Herkimer, New York, U.S.A.
Among the Souks, Fez
Bringing in the Nets

Glimpse of Provincetown, 8 by 7 1/4 inches.

Pont Valentre, Cahors, woodcut, 8 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches
The Old Wharf, wood block, 12 by 9 1/2 inches

Richard Zoellner - bio - from Portsmouth, Ohio, U.S.A.