Nabby's Point
ca. 1913
Medium
Color woodcut on cream paper
Dimensions
Image: 2 5/16 × 3 7/8 in. (5.9 × 9.8 cm) Sheet: 3 1/16 × 4 5/8 in. (7.8 × 11.7 cm)
Classification
Woodcut, print
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Dowd-Gallogly Family and Allan E. Dowd, 2016
Accession Number
2016.406.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Nabby's Point**, a delicate color woodcut created around 1913 by Arthur Wesley Dow, captures the serene beauty of an American landscape. Dow (1857–1922), a pioneering artist and influential teacher, drew inspiration from Japanese printmaking traditions, blending them with Western aesthetics. This intimate work, measuring just over 2 by 4 inches, depicts Nabby's Point—likely a coastal vista from Dow's native New England—evoking quiet harmony through subtle tonal shifts on cream paper. As a master of the woodcut medium, Dow employed a labor-intensive technique of carving multiple blocks for l...
About the Artist
Arthur Wesley Dow · 1857–1922
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922) was an American artist, printmaker, and educator whose ideas about composition and design exerted an outsized influence on American modernism, reaching well beyond anything his own paintings and prints might have achieved on their own. Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, he studied in Boston and then in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he absorbed the academic training...