Past Exhibition

Facsimiles of Russian Folk Prints

The image shows a dog sled team moving toward a ship in the distance. The horizon line is high in the image with the ship on it, depicted against the sky. Bold black lines provide a high-contrast, dynamic effect highlighting the cold environment. The color palette is black and off-white. Sled dogs pull a sled with people on it across a snow-covered landscape towards the ship. Beside the ship, small dark figures are gathered.
Wsesolod Woinoff, Boat, wood engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.8933

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    Ground Floor, Cafeteria Corridor
The image shows a dog sled team moving toward a ship in the distance. The horizon line is high in the image with the ship on it, depicted against the sky. Bold black lines provide a high-contrast, dynamic effect highlighting the cold environment. The color palette is black and off-white. Sled dogs pull a sled with people on it across a snow-covered landscape towards the ship. Beside the ship, small dark figures are gathered.
Wsesolod Woinoff, Boat, wood engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.8933

Overview: Russian woodcuts in facsimile came from the Rosenwald collection.