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The idea for this wood engraving flashed into mind during a delightful visual experience – at that inspiring interval between early morning and a later phase of rapidly-advancing light. As it happened the unusual spectacle was enjoyed only briefly from the window of a Pullman car, while traveling across a familiar stretch of Kansas Prairie. This occurrence of straited cloud shapes is merely one of a thousand and more manifestations known to observant votaries of atmospheric wonders, and perhaps to casual followers of nature’s versatile performances. At once so distinctive, and often perceived for color content alone, yet for graphic delineation and other purposes such as marvels are translatable even in terms of black and white. And, though the dramatic effects of “Prairie Phenomenon” seemed at first to call for attempts on a large scale, the final interpretation became a narrower compass of the medium, since the emphasis would be the same – a concentration on the peculiarity of the sky formations, in contrast to the motionless field below.

The cutting was done on a block of imported Turkey boxwood, and this signed proof is made on a grade of imported Jap paper- one from a limited edition. This wood engraving has been exhibited in recognised places for art media in its class, and received mention in The Philadelphia Enquirer during an exhibition of woodcuts and wood-engravings held at The Print Club in Philadelphia, PA.

E. HUBERT DEINES is a member of the following national art groups: Prairie Print Makers, Chicago; Society of American Wood Engravers; The Woodcut Society; National Academy of Design, N.Y.; Society of American Etchers, Gravers, Lithographers & Woodcutters, Inc.; Audubon Artists, N.Y.; Philadelphia Watercolor Club; The American Artists Professional League; Allied Members- MacDowell Colony; The Society of Print Connoisseurs; Salmugundi Club, N.Y.; The Print CLub of Albany, Albany N.Y.; The National Arts Club, N.Y.; The American Federation of Arts, Washington D.C.; The American Institute of Graphic Art.

Represented in the book, AMERICAN PRIZE PRINTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, by Albert Reese. For awards and biographical date refer to Whos’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in America- A.N. Marquis Co., Publishers.

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