Box 6

Scope and Contents: Lubell 6/16: 113 Wood engraving of small black and white images of three animals – deer, spotted lion and rabbit – bordered by circle and ordered inside a large, non-figural pattern. The organization makes it look like a triptych, with the smaller images inside the images holding the most importance. Signed W. Lubell. Other copies of this print are identified as Lubell 285. This image is one of three that forms a part of a larger print: see Lubell 291, Fragments from Athena’s...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 6/16: 114a-b Black and white woodcut print of the Erinyes from Greek mythology (also known as the Furies), female vengeance deities (the name "Semnai" comes from the ending to Aeschylus' Oresteia, after Athena renames them to reflect their change into protectors of justice). The piece depicts two winged women, one on the ground and one in the air, flanked by multiple animals and symbols (wheels, crosses and swastikas). The woman on...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 6/16: 115 Colored white line woodcut print of three goddesses with a variety of avian imagery. Above them fly two birds, with either more birds or figures thereof on their heads. What appears to be wash coloring comes in red, orange, green, blue, and grey. Styles seem disparate and distinct, but all seem to be vaguely old. Position appears somewhat similar to the non-naturalist use of size in Egyptian art. Alternate titles noted on lower front: ...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 6/16: 116 Colored white line woodcut print of three archaic, clay, female figures. All of them are explicitly maternal in design – each one has a held child as part of their figure – but the context is reduced to a dark purple haze. Colors are all warm, with reds and yellows. Signed Winifred Lubell. See woodblock titled Epiphany (Lubell 434, Box 23). Also print Lubell 155 (Nipple Stock). 36.6 x...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 6/16: 118 Printed woodcut print, with embossed plate mark and hand-applied gouache, of a floral entanglement, with seed pods and stems. The background is a yellow, brown, beige, and grey gouache. The woodcut portion itself is entirely in black ink. Signed W. Lubell. This is the same print as Lubell 388 and 392. Lubell 392 is also a woodcut print, with embossed plate and colored with gouache. See woodblock, [Beech Drops] (Lubell 410, Box...