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How do wood engravings differ from woodcuts?
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Wood engravings differ from woodcuts due to how the wood used to produce the printing plate is prepared. With a woodcut, an artisan saws the wood right along the grain so that they can easily carve into its surface with a knife-like tool. For wood engravings, an artisan uses end-grain wood. Because the wood is much harder, it must be worked with a special needle-like tool, allowing an artist to produce an image with a much higher degree of detail. On 1stDibs, explore a collection of woodcut prints.
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Hell 22 - The Liars - Original Woodcut 1963 (Field p 189 à 200)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Hell 22 - The Liars, 1963
Wood engraving from "Divine Comedy"
with the signature printed in the plate
On BFK Rives vellum 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10")
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Rain at Shinagawa, Ryoshimachi' — Showa-era Woodblock Print
By Kawase Hasui
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Kawase Hasui, 'Rain at Shinagawa, Ryoshimachi' from the series 'Selection of Views of the Tokaido', woodblock print, 1931. A very fine, atmospheric impression, with fresh colors; the...
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1930s Showa Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Drop of Life' — from 'Solitude' for Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Naoko Matsubara, 'Drop of Life' for the portfolio 'Solitude', color woodcut, 1971. A fine impression with fresh, vivid colors, on cream laid Japan paper, the full sheet with margins,...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Elwood W. Bartlett, Wisconsin Farm, about 1945, mid-century wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana.
Largely self taught as a printmaker, Bartlett worked in a style that once identified as his, immediately t...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Wassily Kandinsky, Komposition, from XXe siecle, 1939
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite woodcut by Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), titled Komposition (Composition), from the album XXe siecle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue Valette (5e), Directeur G. di San Laz...
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1930s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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'Der Gartner' (The Gardener) — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Der Gartner' (The Gardener), woodcut, c. 1925. Signed, titled, and numbered '15/50' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left and right. A fine, richly-inked impression on buff wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Image size 5 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches (133 x 98 mm); sheet size 10 x 7 3/4 inches (254 x 198 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919 - 1933). In 1920, his work was featured in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
