Box 11

Scope and Contents:

Lubell 11/5: 260

Large graphite pencil drawing. Sketch of the head and neck of a woman facing forward, but with eyes downcast. She has short, upswept hair and is wearing a buttoned collar. A few lines suggest shoulders. Note to bottom right: “II Nov. 1, 55.”

60 x 47.6 cm

Scope and Contents: Lubell 11/5: 333 Ink drawing over rubbed or printed rubbing that creates a textured background. Confusing, visually obscure images of what appears to be a section of ground teeming with insects and animals. Frogs, mice, and beetles appear among the leaves, but they are all difficult to see because the entire print is covered with white lines, crosshatching and brushed ink. Writing on the bottom states: “Where Fern seed and field Mouse are at ease with ancient Beetles.” ...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 11/6: 67a-e Five four-color woodblock prints of two profiles of people, behind a group of branches. Each of the latter has a different color – red, green, brown, and black – with the human faces in blue, and a yellow background. Colors and objects are solid, with some line patterns but minimal shading. Differences between the five prints seem nonexistent: similar type and sizes of rice paper, same colors, same positioning; even the quality of the ink appears roughly...

Scope and Contents:

Lubell 11/7: 198

Two color woodcut print. Signed W. Milius ’52. Black-skinned woman, barefoot, with brown dress and hat, holding a compass and lying in a [wheat field?]. Signed W. Milius. Possibly part of Abolitionist series. Damage to edges of the paper. One corner torn off.

42.9 x 59.8 cm

Scope and Contents:

Lubell 11/7: 391a-b

Woodblock print. Two copies, one titled and signed W. Lubell ’82. Tall, narrow tree with leaves, branches and fruit. Four birds in the branches. Print 391a is signed. Print 391a is signed. Woodblock, titled [Young Pear Tree] is Lubell 506, Box 45.

391a - 24.8 x 24.1 cm

391b - 65 x 23.7 cm

Image measures 46.6 x 13.5 cm

Scope and Contents: Lubell 11/8: 32 Gouache (with black ink) rendition of a stone wall overlooking a sea horizon. Telephone poles can be seen over the wall, moving into the background as they go right. They are dwarfed in size (albeit comparatively) by the blades of grass and small plants in front of the wall. Multiple distinct coloring types appear to have been used, but most appears to be wash coloring of multiple greens, blues, grays, and yellows. A small house can be seen in the center of the...

Scope and Contents:

Lubell 11/8: 33

Elaborate, abstract, watercolor. Subject matter is incomprehensible, but the image itself appears similar to the spider web or an intricate pattern of cracks. Color is deployed almost aggressively, with giant, thick lines and the spaces they make filled with completely different colors. See Lubell 34.

76.4 x 56.7 cm

Scope and Contents:

Lubell 11/8: 34

Elaborate abstract, watercolor that, like Lubell 33, is of an inexplicable abstract web design (the two are very similar down to the board used for the piece itself). The design is much more “horizontally inclined”, in contrast to the circular web pattern of Lubell 33. It remains just as bright and expressive, however.

56.8 x 76.2 cm