Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood, and the World Beyond: A Catalogue Raisonné

by Jake Milgram Wien

With his virtuosic prints of rolling California hills, classically inspired nudes, and natural and manmade forms--from a seashell to his own printing press--Paul Landacre elevated wood engraving to a high art form in twentieth-century America. Landacre's ceaseless stylistic innovation placed his work in dialogue with California contemporaries like Edward Weston and Henrietta Shore; he was, in fact, central to an artistic milieu that has been described...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078921492X
• ISBN13: 9780789214928
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 736 Pages