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Article: Grace Albee's timelessness: Wood engravings exude vitality despite lack of human subjects.(Arts & Entertainment)(Art)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- October 9, 1999
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Washington needs more exhibits like that of Grace Albee's works at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The show concentrates on an outstanding American print artist and invites quiet contemplation and concentration. Mrs. Albee (1890-1985), who gained recognition in the 1930s for her dramatically lighted urban scenes and stark rural ones, worked in the demanding technique of wood engraving. She carved into the compact end-grain, rather than the side of a block of wood as she would have for woodcuts.
The artist gained a precision with detail in this way, though minutiae never overwhelmed the poetic flavor of her images. Even in her earlier work in Paris, ...