Elisabeth Sawyer-Norton
(1887-1985)
American painter, printmaker and sculptor.
(Continuing and updating from november 2010)
In november 2010 I showed the wonderful woodblocks by Elisabeth Norton on the Linosaurus. After a short break in Blogwriting and the sending of the cockatoos print by follower and reader Shaun from Lincolnshire last week this is a good opportunity showing some more newly discovered examples of her prints that have turned up over the last 18 months.
Many of these new prints I found at Richard C. Frey Fine Arts California (US)
All very interesting, partly because I assumed she was European. I specially liked the two cairn terriers but also the Jungnickel parrots. The cairns strike me as very 1930s. I thought she was better on these strong images than on landscape. Do all the landscapes show France, do you know?
ReplyDeleteBesides the French-Roman aqauduct print which is titled "Avignon", most of her landscapes are Californian Bay Area and Provincetown scenes. And like Jungnickle and Fritz Lang she loved Zoo inhabitants.
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