Box 8

Scope and Contents: Lubell 8/11: 289 Colored white line woodcut print. Three women lying sleeping on slightly raised platforms. Large stylized vulture flying above. On left is possible temple pillar and on right a basin with steam or smoke rising from it. Signed Winifred Milius Lubell. Prints Lubell 108 and 298 are from the same woodblock. Treatments of the oracle dreamers include the gouache, Lubell 306, the small black and white print, Lubell 374, and two colored white line prints, Lubell 108 and...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 8/11: 291a-b Three black and white prints of different woodcuts on a single sheet. Each depicts a different legend or context in Greek mythology. One features a deer, a lion and a hare, one a winged goddess holding an owl, with a lion, a swan, a bird and fish, and the third is of a figure holding a sea horse. In print 291a, writing in red ink frames the images: “Winifred Lubell, Wellfleet, Mass. 1978” on the left, “Three Fragments of Athena’s robe 437 B.C.” across the...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 8/11: 292a-b A colored white line woodcut print of a woman in a tree, holding a tray of fruit and pouring water from an urn to the waiting hands of a figure with human shoulders and head, but a bird’s body. The top and bottom are framed by a red band. Other colors are green, brown and blue. Signed Winifred Milius Lubell. Print 292a is titled Hathor – Lady of the Tree, while print 292b is titled Hathor in the...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 8/12: 293a-b Colored white line woodcut print of a Hellenic-style mythological setting. Two men, colored black with tan hair, swing hammers toward the head of a woman (Pandora?), in red color with black hair. Black columns border the figures beneath orange and red borders, and a pink floral pattern waves across the background. 293a is printed on tan paper, and 293b on mustard-colored paper. This print is the same as Lubell 106 entitled Pandora –...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 8/12: 297 Colored white line woodcut print is of three figures, one male, two female, representing Egyptian gods, floating in black starry sky, with the two females arched over the male. Colors: Black background, blues and greens, with brown lower frame and fuchsia pink upper frame. Notes on lower right: “[bring Geb toe out.]” and “Proof 1.” See woodcut, Nut-Pe-Geb (Lubell 468, Box 31). 24 x 34.5 cm Image measures 22...

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Lubell 8/12: 298

Colored woodcut print depicting temple columns, woman holding baby, facing kneeling woman offering a plant. Background shows three women celebrating. Colors: pale yellow (columns), yellow and red ochre, green, with red border. Printed on black paper. See also Lubell 156 and woodblock, Sanctuary – Dove G[oddess] (Lubell 484, Box 36).

24.9 x 32.6 cm

Scope and Contents: Lubell 8/13: 299a-h Woodcut print. Hindu six-armed goddess with 5 heads (Sarasvati) riding on a bird (Garuda), and holding a trident, a shell, a lotus flower and a tambourine. Colors are predominantly yellows, white, and black, though 299a&h have no yellow. Prints 299a-g are untitled and all labelled “Proof,” with three variants on Proof 1, and two each of Proof 2 and 3. Print 299h is titled and signed Winifred Milius Lubell. 299a-g – Sizes range from 18.3 x...

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Lubell 8/14: 300

Black and white linocut print of three female figures, partially clothed, holding their heads and grimacing. Note in lower right “2nd [q?] proof.” This Image was used to illustrate the second appendix of Winifred Lubell’s book The Metamorphosis of Baubo. See linoleum block, [Three Gorgon-Baubos – The Menacers and Protectors] (Lubell 500, Box 40).

26.3 x 22.2 cm

Scope and Contents: Lubell 8/14: 301 Linocut print of robed [Greek?] women, some with head coverings. Foreground two pairs of kneeling/squatting women. Background on one side is woman and child by loom, and on the other side a woman reaching for a pot from a shelf and another woman with face covered. Household setting with pottery, hanging herbs? and cats. Colors are black and white. Note in lower right: “1st proof.” This appears to be a print from the same block as Lubell 149. See linoleum block...

Scope and Contents: Lubell 8/14: 302a-b Woodcut print of temple scene with female figures. Center figures are two kneeling women, one with shawl and the other offering a cup. Background female figures dancing. Below (?) sleeping or dead pigs and a [rat?]. Both prints are black with white gouache adding emphasis or covering unwanted lines. Lubell 302a is identified as “Proof 1.” The upper half of this image is Figure 2.2 in Winifred Lubell’s book The Metamorphosis of...