Modern Art
Date1895
Artist
Arthur Wesley Dow
(American painter and printmaker, 1857–1922)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for Modern Art, edited by J.M. Bowles (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1895). Les Maitres de l'Affiche, 1896, plate 36
Les Affiches Étrangères, following p. 168
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 11 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (29.2 × 24.1 cm)
sheet: 15 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (40 × 29.2 cm)
sheet: 15 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (40 × 29.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1985
Object number1985-8
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe inner scene is derived from the landscape of Ipswich, Massachusetts where Dow spent several summers. The landscape image is framed by a band of pale green tint with darker green poppies trailing through the space. Dow's study of Japanese art is reflected in the juxtaposition of different patterned areas and in the broad flat colors of the landscape. Dow studied art in Paris and Boston where he was introduced to Japanese prints at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
George Wesley Bellows
1912
