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Box 6
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File — Box: 6, Folder: 10
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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)....
File — Box: 6, Folder: 11
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Lubell 6/11: 93a-c Black and white [engraving or linocut] print of Sumerian fertility goddess and the Biblical quasi-demonic figure, likely to emphasize similarities in the identities of early historical female deities. The two are surrounded by nature: owl, female lion, gazelle, palm fronds, fish, and stars. They are partially differentiated by their clothes and color: Inanna wears a dress and is white, while Lilith is black and naked (and winged). Two prints. 93a title is...
File — Box: 6, Folder: 11
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Lubell 6/11: 94
Black and white cut Masonite print of the Egyptian goddess (whose realms include joy, fertility, and femininity), who forms a vine halo around multiple other deities. Mostly their identities are unclear, but a cat-headed one is likely a reference to Bast (with whom Hathor was often identified). See woodblock, Hathor (Lubell 447, Box 26).
30.2 x 13.7 cm
File — Box: 6, Folder: 12
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Lubell 6/12: 95a-h Three color woodcut print of a river and its adjacent bed. Black is used for the bottom half, which encompasses all of the land and water (and makes them difficult to distinguish from one another). The sky and horizon each have a different color: grey for the former and yellowish-green for the latter. There are, however, eight different proof versions of this exact piece, and while they share almost all of the above descriptors, some are wildly different. One...
File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
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Lubell 6/13: 96a-c Colored white line woodcut prints of three stylized figures playing different instruments, including a flute, [cymbals] and something akin to a harmonica. Assuming that the mythical status of the title is literal, these could refer to a number of deities, such as the Greek muses. For prints 96a&b, the style focuses much more on the elaborate white lines used for detailing (there is no black ink in the piece), with the red, purplish-pink, and green/brown/grey...
File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
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Lubell 6/13: 97 Colored white line woodcut print of various human silhouettes arranged in a number of ways. Structured like a triptych, with three distinct "floors" (each with a separate color for the background: brown, red, and brown, with the first brown a slightly lighter shade) for the people to stand on. The first and third are far more similar, with figures standing and holding some kind of crop (probably wheat). In the second, however, the people are dancing and moving...
File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
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Lubell 6/13: 101 Three color woodcut print of the top of a tree, with its branches and leaves swaying. Color is comparatively simple; very dark brown for the trunk, green for the leaves, and a beige for part of the sky in the background. There is some degradation of the ink, but that inadvertently has given it some more elaborate definition; the trunk, for example, seems more aged and detailed, and more light appears to come from the leaves. It adds up to having a visual...
File — Box: 6, Folder: 14
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Lubell 6/14: 102a-g Woodcut print of a "netsuke," a type of 17th century Japanese miniature sculpture. In this case, it takes the form of several rats grouped together. No color is used, only the black of the woodcut. Print 102a was originally matted, with notation "artist's proof" written on front of mat, and signed Winifred Lubell. Print 102b is signed Winifred M Lubel [sic]. Image 102g is a pen and ink drawing, possibly the initial sketch for the woodcut....
File — Box: 6, Folder: 14
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Lubell 6/14: 105 A hand colored white line woodcut print of what appear to be two faces in extremely close profile, to the point where the only clear thing that we can see of them are their eyes and noses. The former are a very deep and dark blue, with only one pupil in the three eyes shown (one of the faces is presented from the left, with presumably his right eye away from our gaze). The skin is beige and grey, like a marble statue, and there appears to be some kind of dark grey...
File — Box: 6, Folder: 14
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Lubell 6/14: 106 Colored white line woodcut print of Pandora, the first woman according to Greek mythology (and symbolic figure of its cultural misogyny) flanked by two burly men hitting the top of her head with hammers. As "Anodos" refers to a form of ascension (Plato used it to describe enlightenment), and they are hitting her head as she prays, this may suggest an alternate reading of the Pandora story in which her opening of the eponymous box – which led to evil...