Canada Geese Looking for a Night's Lodging
Object NameDrypoint
Artist / Maker
Jay Norwood Darling
(American, 1876 - 1962)
Date1956
MediumDrypoint on acetate on paper
Dimensions5 x 12 in. (12.7 x 30.5 cm)
ClassificationsPrints and Printing Plates
Credit LineGift of the J. N. "Ding" Darling Foundation. In the permanent collection, Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object numberUM82.161
Status
Not on viewLabel TextThis print was made from an acetate plate that had been placed over an earlier version of the image, tentatively dated to the mid-1930s, although the work is actually signed and dated with the year ’21. On that earlier work Darling noted that he had lost the copper plate. The new print is a reverse copy of the earlier one because the plate was traced from the print. There are slight difference in the way that the geese and the landscape are redrawn. The birds are slightly more mechanical, and the landscape more freely drawn, in the later print. The acetate plate was adhered to a zinc plate for subsequent printing.
SignedJ.N. Darling '56
Locations
- (not entered) Iowa State University, Brunnier Main Storage
Object Name: Printing Plate
Jay Norwood Darling
1935
Object number: UM2004.102
Object Name: Drypoint
Jay Norwood Darling
Object number: UM84.167
