The University of Kansas
Spencer Museum of Art
Remembering the Family Farm
150 Years of American Prints
Corban’s Silo, 1937
Drypoint
Loan: Collection of Steven Schmidt Landeck was born in Crandon, Wisconsin. He studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; Columbia University and the Art Students League in New York; and studied engraving with Stanley William Hayter. He settled in East Cornwall, Connecticut in 1931 and relocated in New York in 1935. Landeck was one of the founders of the School for Printmakers, along with Martin Lewis and George C. Miller (Johnson, 119). Landeck noted of this print, “Made at the foot of the hill from my place in Cornwall, Connecticut, many years ago. The location is now a tractor park" (Kraeft, Landeck, 99). In 1994 June and Norman Kraeft observed, "the barn I still standing, but the silo is gone" (Kraeft, Landeck, 168). Sources
