Box 6

Scope and Contents: Lubell 6/9: 84a-b Colored white line woodcut print of an arrangement of small statues and fetish dolls of various female deities. Shapes, materials (specifically represented by color), and degree of naturalism are all distinct. Roughly half of the figures have heads. Colors – yellows, reds, and greys, along with a green background – appear similar to a wash. A red border surrounds the piece. Signed Winifred Milius Lubell. Print 84b is titled Goddess...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 6/9: 85 Colored white line woodcut print depicting one of the many female figurines found in Çatalhӧyük (also spelled similarly to the title), an Anatolian proto-city from 7,500 – 5,700 BCE whose surviving sculpture of female deities significantly outnumbered their male counterparts. Work is largely non-figural, with the exception of the statue itself, worshippers are possibly represented by what appear to be floating hands, while the walls of the temple are covered in...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 6/9: 86 Colored white line woodcut print of a selection of lichen. Unlike many others of Lubell's depictions, there is no naturalism or even a tacit concern for space; the plants are just jumbled around each other like non-figural art patterns. A rather extensive use of color differentiates the pieces; greens, yellows, browns, purples, blues, orange, and black are all used. Signed Winifred Lubell. Lubell 86, titled Lichen Thicket #1 and...