Midsummer Vermont

1936

Asa Cheffetz

Associated Names
Asa Cheffetz

Artist, American, 1896 - 1965

Torch Press

Printer

The Woodcut Society

Publisher, 1932 - 1954

The image shows a rural landscape with fields, a farmhouse, barns, and trees. The sky has dynamic clouds. The style resembles a woodcut or engraving with detailed lines for texture. The color palette is monochromatic in shades of black, white, and grey. The fields close to us have dotted patterns. The fields in the distance ripple towards the farmhouse. Light and shadow create depth and tranquility.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving in black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 12.1 × 15.9 cm (4 3/4 × 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2786

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cheffetz 1984, no. 53

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1942

  • Fowler, Alfred. Catalogue Raisonné of The Woodcut Society. Kansas City, MO: The Woodcut Society, 1942, no. 10.

1984

  • New England Engraved: The Prints of Asa Cheffetz. Springfield, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, 1984, pp. 84, 128, no. 53.

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, p. 142, no. 10.

Inscriptions

lower right in block: AC; lower left in graphite: "Midsummer Vermont"; lower right in graphite: Asa Cheffetz

Wikidata ID

Q64953953

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