Cabins of Cripple Creek
Portfolio TitleThe Woodcut Society
Artist
Warren Bryan Mack
(American, 1896 - 1952)
Dateca. 1930
MediumWood engraving on paper
DimensionsOverall: 6 × 7 7/8 inches (15.24 × 19.99 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Woodcut Society
Object number35-35/29
Edition/State/Proof6/50
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Gallery LabelWarren Bryan Mack, chair of the horticulture department at Penn State University, was renowned for his refined and highly detailed wood engravings. He dedicated much of his art to the subject of his research: plants. This exemplary composition, however, depicts the historic cabins that dot the rolling landscape around Cripple Creek, Colorado, a former mining camp near Pikes Peak that was put on the map by gold fever in 1890.
Unlike a metal plate engraving in which the dark lines reflect the marks made by the engraver's tool, the inked lines in a wood engraving like Cabins of Cripple Creek correspond to the areas of the block the artist deftly avoided while incising it with his composition.
Unlike a metal plate engraving in which the dark lines reflect the marks made by the engraver's tool, the inked lines in a wood engraving like Cabins of Cripple Creek correspond to the areas of the block the artist deftly avoided while incising it with his composition.
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Clarence John Laughlin
April 7, 1955; printed 1973
2005.27.1663
