Culture Thrift Store Wood Engraving Print Turns Out To Be Salvador Dalí Artwork March 10, 20208:39 PM ET Vanessa Romo Enlarge this image ...

This month, in honor of this birthday, the From the Collection series spotlights a portrait of Abraham Lincoln created by wood engraver Gustav Kruell (1843-1907). This delicate print, made from a wood ...

“Rockwell Kent: Prints from the Ralf C. Nemec Collection” opened last month at the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington. Nemec’s collection is the largest assemblage of Kent’s ...

A memorial service for Philip G. Reed, 81, a wood engraver and designer of more than 40 books, will be held in early August at the Church of the Ascension, 1133 N. LaSalle St. Mr. Reed died Friday ...

Object Details author Bliss, Douglas Percy 1900-1984 Notes "Originally published 1928" Contents Preface / by Campbell Dodgson -- An elementary account of the technique of woodcutting and of ...

For her engraving she uses small chisel-like tools to make different types of marks in the wood that together create her chosen image. “It’s got to be a close grained wood like box wood or I ...

“As part of the technique of wood engraving, I was trying to get across the idea of a static image and moving image, that is technically what it is about. Most wood engraving is very static – it’s ...

The item turned out to be a 1950s woodcut print that was created and signed by Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. It is part of a series of 100 illustrations depicting Dante Alighieri's ...

In the end he created a series of 100 watercolor paintings — one for each chapter of Dante's book — that were reproduced as wood engravings. Each of those required about 35 separate blocks to complete ...

The wood engraving print is part of a series of 100 images illustrating The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alleghieri. It's pretty much the thrift store dream; to find a rare, long lost treasure on a ...