Tigers and Horses, 2000
signed and dated lower right
inscribed verso:
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
–Proverbs of Hell, William Blake
watercolor on paper, 12 x 18 inches (sight)
Provenance:
private collection, Maine, since 2000
The child of well-known Modernist artists Marguerite and William Zorach, Dahlov Ipcar was immersed in a life of intellectual and artistic expression from a very early age. Brought up in New York City, she moved, along with her husband, next door to her parents’ farm in Georgetown, Maine. There, along with running the farm, Ipcar continued on a lifetime of creative expression. She worked in various media, including painting, printmaking, illustration, and sculpture. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1939. Her work has been acquired by numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is represented in all of the major museums in Maine.
Unicorn Wood, 1969
signed in pencil lower right below image
titled in pencil lower left
number 46 from the edition of 50
woodblock print in three colors
13 x 17 inches (block)
Provenance:
private collection, Maine, since 2000
Literature:
David P. Becker, The Imprint of Place: Maine Printmaking 1800-2005,
catalogue for the Maine Print Project, 2006
Carl Little, The Art of Dahlov Ipcar, 2010,
Down East Books (another impression illustrated on page 100)
Exhibited:
A Century of Maine Prints: 1880s-1980s,
Portland Museum of Art, 2006 (another impression)