Name/Title
Fisherman's Garden | Pauline Winchester Inman | Wood Engraving | 1948Description
Artist: Pauline Inman
Medium: Wood Engraving
Old Accession Number: 691
Description:
Pencil signed. 1948
Fisherman’s Garden, 1948
Wood Engraving
Looking closely at the textures of Inman’s engraving, one can see the vegetable garden plot with emerging corn stalks positioned to the left of the coastal dirt path in its neatly planted rows. The bold shadow of the tree in the foreground and the subtle inclusion of the garden raises intrigue about the scene outside the edges of the print. This print is titled Fisherman’s Garden, but Inman noted that it was also called Maine Frontier. The different titles conjure different meanings. Fisherman’s Garden presents a hard worker’s pastime, while Maine Frontier evokes the wildness of rural Maine and presents the garden as a fundamental necessity required of survival.