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Paul Landacre
Desert Wall1931

Not on view
Wood engraving landscape of a massive striated mountain cliff face with a black crevice splitting its center and a tiny silhouetted settlement at its base, in stark black and white

Paul Landacre, Desert Wall, 1931, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Joseph M. Landacre and Barbara McCreery, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Paul Landacre
Title
Desert Wall
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1931
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 1/4 in. (22.23 × 28.58 cm) Image: 5 1/2 × 7 in. (13.97 × 17.78 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Joseph M. Landacre and Barbara McCreery
Accession Number
M.81.300.33
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • Feinblatt, E., Zeitlan, J. and S.R. Bourrie. Paul Landacre: Prints and Drawings. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983.
  • The California pop-up book. New York: Universe Pub. in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000.