Paul Landacre Wood Engraving - Framed and Matted - 5x7 🎨🖼️ (Frame measures 6.5 x 8.5 inches)
Rare Paul Landacre 1943 Woodcut “Watching the Dead”
This beautiful wood engraving by Paul Landacre is a true masterpiece! The intricate details and stunning design make it a unique and valuable piece of art that will add a touch of elegance to any room. The engraving is framed and matted, measuring 5x7 inches, and is in excellent condition. It was originally used to illustrate a collection of supernatural tales and was printed in 1943.
Description: This is a rare and valuable limited edition woodcut by Paul Landacre, titled “Watching the Dead.” The artwork is rich in contrast, with deep blacks and clear whites creating a dramatic and somber mood. It’s framed with a black border and white matting, enhancing the visual impact of the piece. This artwork is unique and valuable because of its rarity, the artist’s reputation, and the artwork’s quality. It is a perfect gift for art collectors, enthusiasts, and anyone who appreciates the beauty of woodcut art.
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Paul Hambleton Landacre (July 9, 1893, Columbus, Ohio - June 3, 1963, Los Angeles, California) was an American artist based in Los Angeles. He is known for his wood engravings of landscapes, still lifes, nudes, and abstractions, which are acclaimed for the beauty of their designs and a mastery of materials1. Landacre’s artistic innovations and technical virtuosity gained wood engraving a foothold as a high art form in twentieth-century America. He used the finest inks and imported handmade Japanese papers and, with a few exceptions, printed his wood engravings in his studio on a nineteenth-century Washington Hand Press.
Landacre largely taught himself the art of printmaking and experimented with the technically demanding art of carving linoleum blocks and, eventually, woodblocks for both wood engravings and woodcuts. His fascination with printmaking and his ambition to make a place for himself in the world of fine art coalesced in the late 1920s when he met Jake Zeitlin. Zeitlin’s antiquarian bookshop in Los Angeles included a small gallery space for the showing of artworks, primarily prints and drawings, and it is there in 1929 that Landacre’s first prints were exhibited.
Landacre’s mother, Clara Jane Hambleton, came from a well-educated and scientifically-minded family largely of Quaker descent. Her brother, James Chace Hambleton, was a naturalist who served as the first president of the Audubon Society in Columbus, Ohio.