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Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Maiden and death in the woods1895

Not on view
Woodcut print in dark brown ink, robed figure bending forward in profile against a dense forest of vertical lines, with snowflake shapes scattered across the upper composition

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Maiden and death in the woods, 1895, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Title
Maiden and death in the woods
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1895
Medium
Woodcut printed in dark brown on thin handmade paper, laid down
Dimensions
Image: 6 1/2 x 4 5/8 in. (16.51 x 11.75 cm); Sheet: 6 5/8 x 4 1/2 in. (16.83 x 11.43 cm); Secondary support: 13 7/8 x 11 in. (35.24 x 27.94 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.364
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.