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                                 J. J. Lankes (aka Julius John Lankes)
American, 1884–1960
                        
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                   
                    
                        
                    
                    
                        
                    
                        
   								
Julius John (J.J.) Lankes was born in 1884 in Buffalo, New York. He was an artist, illustrator, engraver, printmaker, author, costume designer, and professor most well-known for his woodcut prints and collaboration with poet Robert Frost. In 1917, he created the first of what would become over 1,300 woodcut prints in his lifetime. He taught art at Wells College in Aurora, New York for seven years in the 1930s before joining the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in the 1940s as a technical illustrator. His time at Wells College is a possible inspiration for this piece as a nearby cornfield was the subject of many other prints created during his tenure there in the 1930s when this work was created.
                    
                
            American, 1884–1960
Ears of Corn
1932
                            Object Type:
                            Print
                        
                    
                    
                    
                    
                       
                            Dimensions:
                       
                        3 in. x 1 3/4 in. (7.62 cm x 4.45 cm)
                            Medium and Support:
                            Woodcut on paper
                        
                    
					
                    
                        
                            Accession Number:
                            2005.0013.0002
                        
                    
					
                            Credit Line:
                            Gift of J. B. Lankes
                        
                    
					
					
          			
      				
      				
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                        Julius John (J.J.) Lankes was born in 1884 in Buffalo, New York. He was an artist, illustrator, engraver, printmaker, author, costume designer, and professor most well-known for his woodcut prints and collaboration with poet Robert Frost. In 1917, he created the first of what would become over 1,300 woodcut prints in his lifetime. He taught art at Wells College in Aurora, New York for seven years in the 1930s before joining the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in the 1940s as a technical illustrator. His time at Wells College is a possible inspiration for this piece as a nearby cornfield was the subject of many other prints created during his tenure there in the 1930s when this work was created.
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