Box 2

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Lubell 2/11: 77

Ink and wash drawing of most of the Westchester County park, with some buildings in the center dwarfed by a massive marsh/peninsula on one end and forestry on the other. Short vertical lines used to represent dominance of flora in the area. This is the same scene as Croton Point (Lubell 78).

29.2 x 20.7 cm

Scope and Contents: Lubell 2/11: 78 Ink and wash drawing (with pastel and gouache) of a landscape of hills, lake and trees. Significantly larger version of Lubell 77’s pen and ink drawing. Seemingly identical in terms of composition, the primary difference is this version’s use of two tone color – yellows, grays, and browns are used to define and shade the landscape with a higher level of detail than many Lubell pieces (much harder to see is the red used to color a few of the roofs). Additionally,...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 2/12: 87 Colored ink and wash drawing depicting of a variation on one of Lubell's preferred subjects, the taxonomy of fungi and lichen, in this case two slime molds that appear to be slowly interacting. Colors are mainly divided into warm and cold to distinguish the two (beyond a shard brownish yellow): red-pink-orange and greenish-blue. The latter also appears to have tentacle appendances, and the former purplish ferns. Like other pieces of this style, background is...

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Lubell 2/12: 99

Graphite pencil drawing (with pastel and wash) of a collection of sea life. A grouping of crustacean, coral, and shell lie together in an imaginary ocean, without space or definition beyond their figures. An odd black line, of ambiguous style, is on the bottom-left corner. Signed W. Lubell. A similar subject is handled differently in Lubell 125.

32.8 x 33.8 cm

Scope and Contents: Lubell 2/12: 100 Beautiful colored ink and wash drawing of a section of wild forest, with its multicolored grasslands presumably part of an extensive marshland. A few dead white trees can be seen throughout the forest, with healthier evergreens dotting the horizon with some houses. Much of the piece is blank, particularly in the foreground, giving the impression of a viewer scanning the edge of the woods. Black, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, and pink inks are included....

Scope and Contents: Lubell 2/13: 103 Brown and black ink drawing (with an attached cutout of a postcard photograph) in the form of an eight-part polyptych very similar to, Lubell 290, titled Medusa, but with fewer images. Both contain the repeated images of the fusion of woman and bird, both have the same writing sample, and both are interested in the presentation, sexual identity, and depiction of women in mythology and classical storytelling. Ink lines are,...

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Lubell 2/13: 104

Graphite pencil and wash drawing of a greatly-detailed section of lichen fungus. Two insects (wasps?) are fighting in the middle of the piece. In lieu of colors, the pencil shading is extensive and elaborate, each form appears unique. Signed Winifred Lubell.

38.6 x 48.3 cm

Scope and Contents: Lubell 2/13: 117a-b Elaborate ink drawing of a fusion of woman and bird, squatting over a cracked egg (with a baby in silhouette crawling out of it) inside of a dark mirror of a mandorla (a full body halo) with writing as a border. Shading is extensive and dramatic. The writing for the border: “In the beginning of Things, black winged NIGHT into the bosom of EREBOS, dark & deep, laid a wind-born egg, & as the seasons rolled Forth sprang LOVE gleaming with wings of gold,...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 2/13: 119 Very loose and fast ink drawing inscribed “Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647-1717, Dutch artist & entomologist.” She holds a dragonfly in her hand. Along with her description, Lubell includes the line, "illustration for a projected biography." Another writing of the title appears to have been cut off at the bottom of the piece. There are light graphite pencil lines near the top of the piece. Signed both Winifred Lubell and W. Lubell. 44.3 x 36.6...