Item #16-3908 Indiana Flowers. A Suite of three Floral Wood-engravings. Signed. First editions. Betty Lark-Horovitz.
Indiana Flowers. A Suite of three Floral Wood-engravings. Signed. First editions.
Indiana Flowers. A Suite of three Floral Wood-engravings. Signed. First editions.

Indiana Flowers. A Suite of three Floral Wood-engravings. Signed. First editions.

West Lafayette, Indiana: Betty Lark-Horovitz, circa 1950s. A suite of 3 wood-engravings on rice paper. One print in each suite is signed and numbered x/25. 3 reddish monochrome wood-engravings of flora around the artist’s Indiana house. 23 x 14 inches....

1) At Home – Flowers and Mailbox. Wood-engraving. 9 x 13.5 cm. on handmade rice paper 37.5 x 26.6 cm....
2) Flowers and Insects. Wood-engraving.
10.5 x 13.6 cm. on handmade rice paper 37.5 x 26.6 cm.....
3) Mimosa. Wood-engraving.
19.4 x 7.4 cm. on handmade rice paper 37.5 x 26.6 cm.


Ref. Edan Milton Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940," Third Edition, p. 547

Exhibited: Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art (January 27-February 22, 1970)......

Betty Lark-Horovitz (1894-1995) was an accomplished graphic artist. She was commissioned to do etchings of several buildings at Purdue University in 1930. There were only 100 sets, each numbered and signed by the artist. That same year her engraved views of American cities and views With graver and woodblock over American Highways, was published. ( New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930.) She was a master of both architectural views as well as views of flora.

Betty was the wife of Dr. Karl Lark-Horovitz who was the head of the Department of Physics at Purdue from 1929 to the 1950s. After his death in 1958, she moved to Berkeley, CA. These wood-engravings depict the flora near her home.

Provenance: From the estate of the artist. Item #16-3908

Price: $150.00

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