Dragon and Orchard (c. 1908): Art, History and Details
Dragon and Orchard at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1908, woodblock. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Dragon and Orchard (c. 1908) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Arthur Wesley Dow (American, 1857–1922).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Dow carved these blocks, two of them on both sides, for Dragon and Orchard. Influenced by his own cyanotypes (an early photographic process that produced blue images), he printed this impression, a nocturnal version, in ten shades of blue.
Object facts
- Title: Dragon and Orchard
- Date: c. 1908
- Creator attribution: Arthur Wesley Dow (American, 1857–1922)
- Culture: America
- Type: Woodblock
- Technique: woodblock
- Dimensions: Overall: 25.5 x 18.7 x 2.1 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 x 13/16 in.)
- Collection: PR - Apparatus
- Department: Prints
- Accession number: 1999.325.3
Collection credit
John L. Severance Fund
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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