The Second Day of the Creation

1925

M.C. Escher

Artist, Dutch, 1898 - 1972

M.C. Escher

Attributed to

Printed with dense, inky black on cream-white paper, clouds surge next to torrential downpours over a stormy seascape in this horizontal woodcut. We look slightly down onto the undulating waves that extend to a horizon line, which curves downward across the lower third of the composition. The foam-capped waves and spray becomes smaller and flatter toward the horizon. In the left half of the print above, clouds curl up like tightly clustered fingers. Water pours from rounded black clouds to the right. Blocky text printed in the upper right corner reads, “12-’25 MCE GEN.1:6-8.” The artist also signed the page with graphite under the printed image in the lower left corner, “M.C. Escher.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut

  • Credit Line

    Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.9 x 37.5 cm (11 x 14 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 30.4 x 45.6 cm (11 15/16 x 17 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1973.65.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bool 1981, no. 105

  • Copyright

    All M.C. Escher works © Cordon Art-Baarn-the Netherlands. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1997

  • M.C. Escher: A Centennial Tribute, National Gallery of Art, Washington; San Diego Museum of Art; The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, 1997-1999.

2000

  • "M.C. Escher", Knoxville Museum of Art, 2000.

Bibliography

1981

  • Bool, F.H. et al. M.C. Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Work. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1981; English-language edition, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982.

Wikidata ID

Q65574050

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