Petunias

 

Margaret Jordan Patterson

  1867 - 1950 (biography)

c. 1920  

color woodcut 

7 1/4 x 10 1/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

not stated; perhaps 100 

titled in pencil, lower center 

 

soft ivory wove 

published 

artist 

19600 

SOLD

Margaret Jordan Patterson learned the techniques of color woodcut from Ethel Mars while visiting Paris in 1910. She created a number of color woodcuts depicting landscapes but turned to floral imagery in the 1920s. Her floral woodcuts are exquisite renderings of various flowers and vessels silhouetted against backgrounds of solid color. "Petunias" clarion the arrival of summer.