Woodcut Maps & Atlases

  NEW YORK (AP) – A New York City exhibition explores the career of one of the foremost woodcut artists in America. Ukrainian-American artist Jacques Hnizdovsky was a master of intricate woodcuts of stylized flora, fauna – and also of paintings, including one that depicts a post-World War II refugee camp.

NEW YORK – Speaking about his 1957 color wood engraving and woodcut dubbed Whirlpools, shown above, Dutch artist M.C. Escher said: “I doubt that ‘the public’ will ever understand, much less appreciate, how many gymnastics of the brain, fascinating to me, have preceded the construction of such a picture.” Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898-1972) was, […]

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