Box 6

Scope and Contents: Lubell 6/10: 88 Colored white line woodcut print of the Babylonian fertility goddess, leading a mythological animal (possibly a griffin; it has a lion's head and bird wings). In her hands is a 7-pointed flower (with an eighth possibly obscured from our perspective); this is likely a reference to the 8-pointed star associated with her. With the exception of a few blues, the majority of the piece uses warm colors, particularly reds and yellows. Red, yellow, and black are used for...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 6/10: 89 Colored white line woodcut print of a woman surrounded by fawning animals – a swan, leopard, jackal, turtle, and moth among them. Colors lean more towards warmer; there are a lot of reds, yellows, and blacks, with a few blues and greens to offset them. Style appears Egyptian or Hellenic, with less focus on naturalism and more on abstract placement of objects. Several minor patterns fill up the space. Signed Winifred Lubell. Verso of original matting expands the...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 6/10: 90 Colored white line woodcut print of two wasps walking on a grouping of three pears. The fruit is on tiles? (picnic blanket?), and autumnal fallen leaves can be seen in the background. The color (presumably wash), fittingly for bright insects and fruit, is appropriately colorful, with blue and purple for the tile pattern contrasted with the greens, yellows, and browns of the natural world. Signed Winifred Lubell, with a number 3 below the signature. The prints...

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Lubell 6/10: 91

Colored white line woodcut print of a pear tree branch in bloom. Several butterflies are resting on or flying next to it. Its use of bold colors – blue, green, and pink particularly – gives it a spring sensibility. Signed Winifred Lubell. See woodblock titled Pear Blossom (Lubell 473, Box 33).

20 x 44.6 cm

Scope and Contents: Lubell 6/10: 92 Colored white line woodcut print of a four-part polyptych, with each image of a harpy, a bird woman from Greek mythology. While harpies are frequently depicted as monstrous, these are far more serene, with beautiful, multicolored plumage (along with their noted talons, all in black ink). Two of them carry people in flight, the other two stand on the ground. Signed Winifred Lubell. See woodblock titled Harpies (Lubell 445, Box 25)....