Lines and Colors art blog

Color woodcuts by Émile Antoine Verpilleux

Emile Antoine Verpilleux, color woodcut prints
Emile Antoine Verpilleux, color woodcut prints

Émile Antoine Verpilleux was an English-Belgian artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Though also a painter, he was noted for his color woodcuts with their subtle but striking use of atmospheric perspective.

He seems to treat the layers of distance in his images as distinct planes, almost like a stage set.