'Songs of Love and Death’

William Brown Macdougall

1896

Wood engraving

7½ x 5½ inches

Songs of Love and Death,

A fine piece of Art Nouveau design in which Macdougall accentuates the simplified form of a radiating plant bearing flowers that look like zucchini. Abandoning naturalism, he presents an abstracted representation of a plentiful, dynamic nature,

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