By the River (after Thomas Austen Brown) by Henry Wolf

By the River (after Thomas Austen Brown) by Henry Wolf

By the River (after Thomas Austen Brown)

Henry Wolf

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Title

By the River (after Thomas Austen Brown)

 
Artist

Henry Wolf

  1852 - 1916 (biography)
Year
c. 1905  
Technique
woodengraving 
Image Size
6 1/4 x 4 7/8" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
ca. 100 
Annotations
 
Reference
 
Paper
very fine ivory wove 
State
proof 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
6858 
Price
$400.00 
Description

Whether intentional or simply due to the medium itself, a hazy, twilight atmosphere settles itself over the scene in “By the River,” after the British painter Thomas Austen Brown. Obscuring the faces of a mother and child who are enjoying a walk in the open air - the shoeless child being carried over the debris on the river’s edge - Wolff focuses on the sense of a private, sweet moment illuminated by dappled light, captured by someone with an intimate familiarity of his subjects. Brown was known for his idyllic portrayals of rural townspeople and their daily lives; Wolff’s style compliments it, losing nothing in the discarding of color, but rather enhancing the captivating emotion of the moment with the use of chiaroscuro.

In 1915, the year before his death, the American wood engraver Henry Wolf won the Grand Prize for his printmaking at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. The Wolf prints we have were available for sale at the PPIE and many were the actual prints exhibited and have the label from the PPIE.

 

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