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Nele van de Velde
Nele too small. Road sign too high. Had to climb up the pole to read: 'To the Staffelalp'1920

Not on view
Woodcut print in black ink on off-white paper, a bare tree with splayed branches in the foreground against a row of jagged mountain peaks, bold gestural lines with uneven ink coverage

Nele van de Velde, Nele too small. Road sign too high. Had to climb up the pole to read: 'To the Staffelalp', 1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Nele van de Velde
Title
Nele too small. Road sign too high. Had to climb up the pole to read: 'To the Staffelalp'
Date Made
1920
Medium
Woodcut on thin Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 5 x 4 3/16 in. (12.7 x 10.64 cm); Sheet: 5 x 4 3/16 in. (12.7 x 10.64 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.298b
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.