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Dragon and Orchard
Arthur Wesley Dow (American, 1857–1922)
c. 1908
- Medium
- woodblock
- Classification
- Woodblock
- Dimensions
- Overall: 25.5 x 18.7 x 2 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 x 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Dow carved these blocks, two of them on both sides, for Dragon and Orchard. Influenced by his own cyanotypes (an early photographic process that produced blue images), he printed this impression, a nocturnal version, in ten shades of blue.
