Black block print titled "Migratory Urge" with short poem and decorative patterns.

Helen West Heller

Migratory Urge. Winds of May have in my nostril...adown precipitous trails.

1928

Not on view

18 works in the collection
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Classification
Prints

Medium
Woodcut

Dimensions
Sheet: 4 × 4 7/8 in. (10.2 × 12.4 cm) Image: 2 × 2 1/2 in. (5.1 × 6.4 cm)

Accession number
96.277.4

Edition
Ed. 109

Publication
Published by Franklin J. Meine

Credit line
Gift of Judith and Richard Webb

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/25440

Part of a series:
Migratory Urge
18 works

Decorative black printed block with copyright notice reading "Copyright 1928 by Helen West Heller."
Block print titled "An intelligence in a small town" showing women and figures among flowers.
Black embroidered panel showing poem lines and geometric patterns on a cream fabric square.
A woodcut showing a caravan of people and animals traveling along a winding mountain path.
Black-and-white woodcut of a cat peeking from behind a patterned curtain.
Woodcut print showing cranes and workers building an early skyscraper in a city.
Black woodcut titled "Garret" showing stylized birds and a poem about birds, rain, and storms.
Black woodcut text block describing art mediums and credited to Llewellyn Jones.
Small black woodcut print showing a narrow path or interior leading toward a lit kitchen window.
A small black-and-white woodcut shows a seated woman hunched over in a cramped interior.

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