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November by Mildred Bryant Brooks
November
Mildred Bryant Brooks
Title
November
Artist
Mildred Bryant Brooks
1901 - 1995 (biography)Year
c. 1938
Technique
etching & aquatint
Image Size
11 1/2 x 8 7/8" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
75
Annotations
titled, lower left; inscribed 75 in the lower center margin
Reference
American Art Today cat. no. 851, illustrated on page 256
Paper
fine ivory laid
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
RBH107
Price
$850.00
Description
California printmaker Mildred Bryant Brooks was known best for her dramatic intaglios featuring trees. "November" shows a twisted tree which has grown up through the rocks. It has shed its foliage for winter and now is a perch for what appears to be a murder of crows.
Brooks emphasizes the harshness of the composition by adding an ominous background which emerges as a black sky, nightfall or dense storm clouds, that fades into a crisp, light horizon. Two more trees and more birds are seen in the distance.
This image was included in the important exhibition "American Art Today" at the 1939 New York World's Fair.