Blizzard Coming

 

Levon West

  1900 - 1968 (biography)

1931  

drypoint 

8 11/16 x 14 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right; in plate, lower left 

numbered "88" from an edition of 100 

pencil editioned, pencil annotated "imp" and dedicated "To James A. Harris III"; annotated in plate: "January 1931". 

Fifty Prints of the Year, 1932-33 

antique white laid with large coat-of-arms watermark 

published 

artist 

20829 

SOLD

A team of four sled dogs and two travelers face a strong wind in snowy landscape, readying themselves for a blizzard. West suggests the strength of the wind by using the stances and hair of the dogs and the clothing on the travelers to give a direction and sense of force to the blizzard.

Levon West used a drypoint needle to create this image, sketching directly on the copper plate. The drypoint lines create the sweeping winds and the contrasting black of the dogs and figures, there are just a few trees suggested in the background, which create a horizon which will soon disappear for the travelers.

This impression is annotated "To James A. Harris III."