Martha Visser't Hooft (1906-1994)Butterfly Maze
circa 1948-50
intaglio print on paper, A/P #00133
plate: 8 15/16 x 5 13/16; paper: 11 1/2 x 9 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of Martje V. More, 2016
It's fun to compare Martha Visser't Hooft's Butterfly Maze with Butterflies and Black Barn by Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967). Both artists were fascinated with butterflies’ mercurial changes in direction imagined as nature’s geometry.