Bee and Clover

Artist/Maker Julius John Lankes (American, 1884 – 1960)

Date1928

MediumWoodcut on paper

DimensionsComposition: 5 in. × 3 1/4 in. (12.7 × 8.3 cm) Sheet: 9 1/2 in. × 7 in. (24.1 × 17.8 cm)

Credit LinePurchased by Elihu Root, Jr., Class of 1903, and Edward W. Root, Class of 1905, for the Hamilton College Picture Rental Collection.

Object number1983.10

Not on view

DescriptionFrom the book Spring Plowing, by Charles Malam, 1928

Collections

American Art

Additional Details

Alternate Titles Bumblebee

Exhibition History 2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).

2007-2008
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector, and Naturalist," September 27, 2007 - January 6, 2008 (unnumbered cat.).

Provenance May 1983: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by transfer from the Student Loan Collection;
by 1936: Hamilton College, by gift of Elihu Root, Jr. and Edward W. Root for the Root Picture Collection.

Published References THE BEST KIND OF LIFE: EDWARD W. ROOT AS TEACHER, COLLECTOR, AND NATURALIST (exh. cat. Clinton, Fred L.Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 2007), 53.

Signature Signed in pencil at lower left: JJ Lankes

Inscribed Inscribed in pencil at lower center: No 5; dated in pencil at lower left of center: 1928; inscribed in pencil at lower left and lower right: 5; in pencil at lower center [by a later hand?]: SPRING PLOWING ILLUSTRATION