Reforestation
date: label: Date made
content: 1935
name: label: maker
content: Heller, Helen West
notes: label: Description
content: Helen West Heller (1872&#8211;1955) used strong patterns and thick lines to communicate her ideas graphically. Many of her prints convey narrative themes, reflecting her early work as both painter and poet. As she was born on a small farm in Illinois, it is not surprising that her subject matter often included figures interacting with nature. Mainly self-taught as an artist, she studied at the Art Students League in New York and the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. She produced mural series and prints as part of the Works Progress Administration/Federal Arts Project during the Depression. In her woodcut <i>Reforestation</i> three men are replanting small trees. This image is the middle section of a triptych called <i>American Soil</i> that featured agricultural workers on government New Deal projects.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Trees
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.20063
label: catalog number
content: 20063
label: accession number
content: 182887
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Type
content: Woodcut
label: Other Terms
content: Print; Relief; Wood Cut
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 28.1 cm x 24.5 cm; 11 1/16 in x 9 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 40 cm x 31.9 cm; 15 3/4 in x 12 9/16 in