Foundations

Arthur Wesley Dow

View of Ipswich, or A Bend in the River

ca. 1895

Color woodcut, image 12.7 × 5.9 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Met links this tall, narrow frame, only about 13 cm high, to Japanese pillar prints.

• Look how the narrow format stacks the landscape from bottom to top.
• No black key block outlines the forms; flat patches of color sit side by side.

Concepts

• Format and the Picture Plane

Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Public Domain (Met Open Access)