Down Montgomery Way, Vermont

1940

Asa Cheffetz

Associated Names
Asa Cheffetz

Artist, American, 1896 - 1965

Torch Press

Printer

The Woodcut Society

Publisher, 1932 - 1954

The image shows a landscape viewed from an elevated perspective. Rolling hills and a winding road are visible, with mountains in the distance against a sky with a few scattered clouds. The road leads to a small farm with several buildings, probably a barn and a farmhouse with silos nearby. A forested area extends towards the base of the mountains. The image has detailed linework, creating texture and depth through hatch marks and stippling. The color palette is monochromatic, mainly black and white, emphasizing contrast and accentuating the textures and lines in the scene. The fields closest to the viewer show textured lines suggestive of tilled earth or crops.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving in black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 10.8 × 18.7 cm (4 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2787

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cheffetz 1984, no. 57


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1942

  • Fowler, Alfred. Catalogue Raisonné of The Woodcut Society. Kansas City, MO: The Woodcut Society, 1942, no. 18.

1984

  • New England Engraved: The Prints of Asa Cheffetz. Springfield, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, 1984, pp. 88, 128, no. 57.

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. 145, no. 18.

Inscriptions

lower left in block: AC; lower right in graphite: Asa Cheffetz

Wikidata ID

Q64953956

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