- Title
- Blind Woman in the Forest
- Date Made
- circa 1900, published 1922-1923
- Medium
- Etching, aquatint, and roulette on wove paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 17 1/2 × 12 3/8 in. (44.45 × 31.43 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2018.129
- Collecting Area
- Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
- Curatorial Notes
Paula Modersohn-Becker is recognized as an important early twentieth-century artist in spite of her tragically short life. Her subjects were considered typical for a woman artist—femininity, sexuality, and motherhood— but her compositions and style were decidedly modern. Modersohn-Becker studied in Paris, where she encountered the works of Paul Cézanne, Maurice Denis, and Paul Gauguin. Although she created few prints, this work, made when she was twenty-four, shows her potential in the medium. Her experiments with a variety of intaglio processes create contrasts between line and tone that are especially pronounced in the landscape, where the speckled ground of the mushroom-bedecked forest is overlaid with a wall of leafless trees depicted as webs of line.
Exhibition Label: Women’s Work: Art by Women in Germany, 1900–1933, 2021, Erin Maynes.
