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Spring Landscape |
Landscape painting depicting a dirt pathway with steps and a wooden railing cutting through the center of the composition leading to a house on a hill in the distance. On either side of the path are blooming trees bearing pink and white blossoms in a green meadow.
Arthur Wesley Dow
1892
This work is indicative of the influence Japanese prints had on Dows work, and his subsequent emphasis on elements such as line, mass and color. In Spring Landscape Dow utilizes strong dynamic line, a high horizon line, flattened space, asymmetry, vibrant colors, and a simplification of form to represent a scene of nature at the height of spring.
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.168
umich
Tuesday, January 19, 2021