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Julius J. Lankes
'Winter' — 1920s American Arts & Crafts
1922

Price:$765

$850List Price

About the Item

Julius J. Lankes, 'Winter', woodcut, 1922, Lankes 111. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 'No 36' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margins (1 3/4 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by the artist. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 7 x 10 1/16 inches (178 x 256 mm); sheet size 10 7/8 x 15 1/8 inches (276 x 384 mm). Exhibited and reproduced: 'Julius J. Lankes, Survey of an American Artist,' University of Richmond Museums, 2013. Collections: Ackland Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Burchfield Penney Art Center. ABOUT THE ARTIST “I honor him for his realism. The man has feeling. He has that odd quality, so infinitely valuable, the feeling for things, for the reflected life in things.” —Sherwood Anderson, American novelist. Julius John (J.J.) Lankes (1884-1960) was a highly-regarded American illustrator, graphic artist, author, lecturer, costume & scenery designer, and college professor. He is known primarily for his woodcut prints and his artistic collaboration with the poet Robert Frost, a friendship that spanned over forty years. Lankes was born in Buffalo, NY, to parents of German heritage and graduated from the Buffalo Commercial and Electro-Mechanical Institute in 1902. From 1908-1910 he studied at the Art Students League in Buffalo, NY, and from 1912-13 he studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, under Philip Leslie Hale and William McGregor Paxton. He also studied with artists Ernest Fosbery and Mary B.W. Coxe. Lankes made his first woodcut in 1917 and, over the course of his career, produced over 1,300 woodcuts. Lankes produced woodcuts to illustrate Robert Frost's poems as well as other notable authors and poets, including Ellen Glasgow’s ‘Barren Ground’ (1925), Roark Bradford’s ‘John Henry’ (1931), Sherwood Anderson’s ‘Perhaps Women’ (1931), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Peter Tristram Coffin’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ (1940), Beatrix Potter’s ‘Wag-By-Wall’ (1944) and August William Derleth’s ‘Country Poems’ (1956). He collaborated with his friend Charles Ephraim Burchfield to produce eleven woodcut designs based on Burchfield’s drawings. Lankes also published his own woodcuts, and how-to manuals, and authored articles in numerous magazines and publications. In 1930, Lankes and his Hilton Village neighbor Eager Wood of the Virginia Press collaborated on Virginia Woodcuts, a limited edition volume of 25 prints that featured and supported the preservation of the historic lands of Tidewater, Virginia. Lankes wrote and illustrated A Woodcut Manual, published by Henry Holt in 1932, the first definitive book on the woodcut printmaking medium in America. In 1933, Lankes was persuaded by Frost to accept a position as visiting Professor at Wells College in Aurora, New York. He taught at Wells for seven years. During the World War II years, he joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, as head of technical illustration at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley, VA. Lankes’ art association memberships included the Society of American Graphic Artists, the American Artists Professional League, the Prairie Print Makers, the California Society of Print Makers, the Print Society of England, and the Saturday Sketch Club of Buffalo. In 1954 he was elected Academician Member at the National Academy of Design in New York City. Lankes maintained homes and studios in Gardenville, NY, and Hilton Village, Newport News, VA. The University of Richmond Museums mounted a one-person exhibition of the artist's work 'Julius J. Lankes, Survey of an American Artist,' November 12, 2013 – January 26, 2014. The Heritage Film Project sponsored a documentary on the artist’s life and work ‘J. J. Lankes, Yankee Printmaker in Virginia’ by writer-director Eduardo Montes-Bradley in 2019 (available on Vimeo). The College of William & Mary, Musca-Relle Museum of Art mounted a one-person exhibit of Lankes’ graphic work in 2022. Lankes exhibited regularly during his career, and his works are held in many museums, public and private collections in the United States, Canada, and England, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), Baltimore Museum of Art, The Burchfield Penney (Buffalo, NY), British Museum (London), Brooklyn Museum, Library of Congress, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Georgia Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Library of Virginia, University of Richmond Museums, Victoria & Albert Museum (London), and Yale University. The 'Pennsylvania Dutch Barn Series' is at the Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg. The 'Doremus Series', designed by Rockwell Kent and engraved by J.J.Lankes, is at Plattsburgh State University in New York.

Creator:
Julius J. Lankes (1894 - 1960, American)
Creation Year:
1922
Dimensions:
Height: 7 in (17.78 cm)Width: 10.07 in (25.58 cm)
Medium:
Woodcut
Movement & Style:
Modern
Period:
1920-1929
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Myrtle Beach, SC
Reference Number:
Seller: 1040701stDibs: LU532312181322

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