Houses By the Road

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A linocut landscape depicting two houses along a road. The road is in the foreground, with the two houses appearing across the road behind a low stone wall. Both houses are two stories with peaked roofs and two chimneys. They are arranged with one slightly behind the other and both are surrounded by several trees. In the background are fields, more trees, and a hillside beneath a dark sky. At the bottom left corner [J.L.W.] was carved into the block used to make the print. The title [Houses By The Road] is written in pencil on the bottom left corner with [a/p] in the center. The print is signed [James L. Wells] on the bottom right corner, underneath the image.

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