Woodcut Wednesday

 

The Art Museum of Milwaukee publishes daily some themed stuff from their special archives on Tumblr.  Check it out here.  One of the regular Wednesday themes is "Woodcut Wednesday."

The prints above are from DIANA BLOOMFIELD.  Of one of the winter scenes, she writes:

I was obviously influenced by Thomas Bewick, whose vignettes, with so many tones of grey, entranced me, all my working life. I remember, for this design [of the woman and child walking home], trying to create the icy temperature: tree roots, like griping fingers, sky lines parallel and merging with the chimney smoke, and the little couple, driven by cold wind. I made the child look look up to the old lady, for comfort in their stormy struggle home.

Here's some 2-color woodcuts from Leaves of Grass.

Here's one from a special edition of Robert Frost poems.