Clam Diggers, Cape Cod

1946

Clare Leighton

Associated Names
Clare Leighton

Artist, American, born England, 1898 - 1989

Torch Press

Printer

The Woodcut Society

Publisher, 1932 - 1954

This is a drawing of people engaged in clam digging activities along a shoreline with hills in the background. The black and white image features figures bent over, appearing to dig in shallow waters while one figure stands carrying a basket and a pitchfork on their shoulder. The scene is populated with flying birds and is set against a landscape of rolling hills and a body of water. The style of the drawing utilizes strong contrast and textures to depict the forms and landscape, typical of a woodcut or lino cut technique, emphasizing shadows and highlights to create a dynamic composition.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving in black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.46 × 19.84 cm (6 7/8 × 7 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1947.7.82

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehman 1977, no. 599

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1977

  • Fletcher, William D. Clare Leighton, An Exhibition: American Sheaves, English Seed Corn. Massachusetts: Boston Public Library, 1977, p. 20, no. 599.

1990

  • Czestochowski, Joseph S. James Swann: In Quest of a Printmaker, with Presentation Prints of the Chicago Society of Etchers, Prairie Print Makers, and the Woodcut Society. Iowa: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, 1990, appendix C, pp. 150-151, no. 30.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 22/250; lower right in graphite: Clare Leighton.

Wikidata ID

Q65071398

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