Farm Houses with Elm Trees in the Middlesex County by Cora May Boone

Farm Houses with Elm Trees in the Middlesex County by Cora May Boone

Farm Houses with Elm Trees in the Middlesex County

Cora May Boone

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Title

Farm Houses with Elm Trees in the Middlesex County

 
Artist

Cora May Boone

  1871 - 1953 (biography)
Year
c. 1913  
Technique
watercolor 
Image Size
14 x 19 5/8" image and paper 
Signature
"CORA BOONE", in pigment lower right 
Edition Size
1 of 1 unique 
Annotations
pencil label on the paper backing of the old frame: "Farm Houses with Elm trees-in Middlesex County just outside of London, England" Artist-Cora Boone, (Great Aunt of Mrs. Frank B. Durkee, Jr.) 
Reference
 
Paper
watercolor paper supported on board 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
18560 
Price
$800.00 
Description

Cora Boone is best known for the single-block woodcut technique she learned from Blanche Lazzell in Provincetown around 1920 and taught it to other artists and teachers in California. Boone was also an accomplished watercolorist, studying with Leonard Richmond between 1912 and 1913 at the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London and with Jeka Kemp in Paris.

Cora Boone’s signature saturated watercolor technique captures a moody sky over a British landscape, a mixture of blue sky and dramatic clouds vying for foothold as the bucolic landscape stretches out beneath. When working with the somewhat temperamental medium, so different from the rigidity of her other favored medium, white-line color woodcut, she was never afraid to douse the paper with color in order to manipulate the pigment for its intended effect: to evoke a mood without becoming distracted by minute detail.

 
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