(Ipswich, Massachusetts: Arthur Wesley Dow, 1902), to include five monochrome woodblocks on rice paper (9.75 x 7 5/8 in.). Subjects are a koi fish, a grooming duck, a roosting bird, chrysanthemum blossoms and a plant. Three prints are impressed with Dow's Japanese-style cartouche, the koi print is unsigned, the duck being credited as "After the Japanese" followed by a line reading, "Ipswich Print Arthur Wesley Dow." Accompanying the prints is a cover sheet with title, credits and the mention of "Six Sketches reproduced from the Japanese." Five only, as mentioned, are present.

Arthur Wesley Dow is recognized as one of the great proponents of the Arts and Crafts movement that swept America as the 19th century came to a close. Going beyond merely advocating simplicity of form, Dow began to infuse his art with Japanese conventions as a way to express his ideas. Achieving quite a following in his own lifetime, Dow's work is liberally distributed among the most prestigious art collections in the United States. His work is held by such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Columbia University, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Four (4) of the prints and the cover are trimmed unevenly at the right edge; small marginal splits to (2) sheets do not affect prints; light age toning.

$400 - 800