Clear Waters
1920. Wood engraving, initialled in block lower left, 21.6 x 11.6cm. Minor foxing to image, paper loss, creases and discolouration to margins, old mount burn. Gibbings’s use of the “vanishing line technique” is clearly illustrated in this print which was “his first significant engraving of a figure. Here the delicate outline of the body is never defined by a line other than the boundary of one area of highlight with that of shadow; the eye naturally completes the shape by implication...Gibbings used the technique in much of his early work around the time when he started to become a serious contender in the art world.” Ref: University of Otago Library.
Item #CL184-76
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