
A Woman
Paul LandacreWW-1937-100929
Catalogue
- Year
- 1937
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.1 × 27 cm (14 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Paul Landacre
Artist

Paul Landacre
Printmaking
Paul Landacre was an American woodcut artist whose bold, high-contrast black-and-white prints articulated the industrial and agricultural landscapes of twentieth-century America. Working primarily in the medium of wood engraving and relief printing, he developed a distinctive approach to social realism that emphasized geometric form and dramatic chiaroscuro. His prints documented labor, machinery, and rural life with a formal rigor that elevated the woodcut to a fine art medium. Landacre's work emerged during the 1930s as part of a broader American printmaking renaissance.
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- Paul Landacre
- Year
- 1937
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.1 × 27 cm (14 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1937-100929
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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