[From the Community Collection, a public trust in Agincourt, Iowa]
DAWSON, Nelson Ethelred [1859-1941]
“Two Sailboats at High Sea”
ca1910-1930
color etching on paper / 20.6 cm by 22.5 cm (plate)
Nelson Ethelred Dawson — does it take something special to live your life as an Ethelred? — was an English member of the Arts & Crafts. Though he worked in etching and woodcut, it’s comforting to know that his first studies were in architecture and painting. The colors of this captivating woodcut suggest the ’30s. It might easily have illustrated a novel by Herman Melville.