Spring by Russell Davis Green
Spring
Russell Davis Green
Title
Spring
Artist
Russell Davis Green
1910 - 1986 (biography)Year
c. 1940
Technique
color blockprint
Image Size
10 x 8" image
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
5 of 25
Annotations
titled and editioned in pencil
Reference
Paper
cream Japanese
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
16223
Price
$850.00
Description
This color blockprint by Russell Davis Green was probably done at the end of the WPA-FAP. The flattened, stylized image is quite modernist and patterned and not unlike many Scandinavian / Eastern European folk-art paintings.
Elements of the image also evokes some of the patterns developed for the Wisconsin WPA Handicraft Project. The WPA patterns were done as designs, to be printed on napkins, curtains, runners, linen, rugs etc., used in public buildings throughout the U.S.