Box 39

Scope and Contents:

Lubell 494

Wood cut block. Grass, dandelion leaves, two insects and spider. Residual color: green. See [Tall Grass], Lubell 337 (Box 9, Folder 5) and woodblock, Tall Grass (Lubell 499, Box 39).

38.6 x 14.2 cm

Scope and Contents: Lubell 495 Woodblock carved on two sides. Title on lower edge of block. Face image is a boy pictured from the waist up, holding a stem with a leaf. [Tall grass?] in background. Colors: brown red, gray or green. Verso is long cuts (grass?) and hash marks, along with notation “little girl – ochre.” Color: residual yellow. For the print, see Boy with Sumac, Lubell 75 (Box 6, Folder 5) and Tall Grass, Lubell 311 (Box 8,...

Scope and Contents:

Lubell 496

Woodblock carved on two sides. Title on lower edge of block. Face image is of various creatures. Three are insects, a butterfly, a beetle and a praying mantis-like insect. Also a [snail?] and a lizard/salamander. Background of long strokes (grass?). Verso is carved on lower half of block (image is19 x 14.1 cm). Clothed torso, with hands holding two crossed sticks/weapons. Colors: blue-green and black.

38.1 x 14.1 cm

Scope and Contents:

Lubell 497

Woodblock carved on two sides. Title on lower edge of block. Face image is of a barefoot girl in a short dress standing in tall grass. Color: brown. Verso are sample carvings of grass, hands and a [blossom?]. Color: green. For the print, see Tall Grass, Lubell 312 (Box 8, Folder 18).

37.5 x 14.5 cm

Scope and Contents:

Lubell 498

Carved woodblock. Two plants with long stems and feathered leaves. Color: dark green. The print, for which this woodblock forms one part, is 5 Tall Grass, Lubell 313 (Box 8, Folder 19).

38.1 x 14.2 cm

Scope and Contents: Lubell 499 Woodblock carved on two sides. Title in pencil on lower side edge of block. Face image is two blades of grass and two dandelion stems, one in bud and the other with the open seed head. Colors: black and pale yellow. On verso are [draft/practice?] blades of tall grass. Color: yellow wash. This woodblock is part of the print [Tall Grass], Lubell 337 (Box 9, Folder 5) and woodblock, Tall Grass (Lubell 494,...