Opening the Road by Eloise Howard
This is a wood engraving by Eloise Howard. It shows a pair of horses pulling a wooden plow to clear a path to a log home. The snow is thick and drifted. A snow covered tree dominates the center of the image. Between the active sky, the vastness of the land, the snow, and the diminutive buildings and figures, one comes away with the sense of our place in the natural world. Still, we try to control it as best we can. This was printed by the American Artists Group in New York. The edition size is unknown. It is signed and dated in the block lower left. The print is in excellent condition with the exception of a stain in the lower right just below the man holding the reigns. This could be restored by a good paper conservator. The price reflects the damage. The original label from the American Artists Group is included.
Eloise Howard (1889-1985) Eloise Howard is an American artist. She was born in Oregon and pursued her artistic studies at the Portland Museum of Art. She then traveled across country to New York to study at the National Academy of Design, the Beaux Art School, and the Art Students League. She moved back to the west coast and she is most active in San Francisco in the 1930s and 40s. She had limited exhibitions but did win first prize from the National Association of Women Painters & Sculptors in 1932. She also had a piece in the San Francisco Art Association exhibition in 1937. She was apparently included in the 1941 exhibit Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes at the Museum of Modern Art, although the piece contributed is not exhibited online. Her most notable work is a wood engraving from 1936, Opening the Road, which is help in many collections, including the National Gallery of Art.
Price: $400
Size: 16 x 13 inches
Plate Size: 11.5 x 9 inches
Condition: Good
Medium: Wood Engraving
Subject: Landscape
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