Werner Drewes 1954 Limited Edition Woodblock Print on Paper "Calm Morning"

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A mid-century limited edition color woodblock print on paper by well-listed and prolific German-American painter, sculptor and printmaker Werner Drewes (Germany/New York; 1899 – 1985) titled Calm Morning, created in 1954. This abstracted piece presents a harbor with boats, rendered in geometric shapes and lines. Artist signature is signed and dated in pencil to the lower right, and the piece titled in pencil to the lower left. This piece is presented unframed under a cloth covered mat.
Drewes began his artistic career in his homeland of Germany, before his military service in World War I. When he returned, he continued his training in Berlin at the Bauhaus at Weimar, studying under Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, and Johannes Itten. Traveling throughout Italy and Spain, he studied the works of the Old Masters, and proceeded to tour the United States and East Asia before returning to the Bauhaus, and trained privately under the tutelage of the formidable Wassily Kandinsky. He eventually settled in America, instructing art at numerous reputed institutions, and became the director of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in New York during the early 1940s. Drewes’ works are represented in the permanent collections of dozens of prestigious institutions internationally, some of which include the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Frankfurt Museum, Germany; and Société Anonyme.

Condition

- toning to paper and mat; small dented areas in mat; moderate edge wear and fraying to mat.

Dimensions

- measures mat; visible image measures 25.25" W x 11"H.

Item #

17WDC134-009