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Dragon and Orchard
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About this 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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineDragon and Orchard, c. 1908. Arthur Wesley Dow (American, 1857–1922). Wood block; overall: 25.5 x 18.7 x 2.1 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 x 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1999.325.1
