Minneapolis Institute of Art

Judith in the Tent of Holofernes

Benjamin Miller

Date

1928

Medium

Woodcut on Japan paper

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

While his fellow printmakers were depicting the American scene, Benjamin Miller was pursuing agonizingly expressive subjects from the Bible. This Judith gives us a frank acknowledgement of her sexual power, but also hints at the psychological cost of her deed. The print's raw emotionalism is enhanced by the actual wood grain incorporated into the background design. United States, Americas

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