
Look Homeward, Angel: Letterio Calapai’s Wood Engravings of the Asheville-Inspired Novel
Intricately carved wood-engravings by Letterio Calapai render scenes from Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel in high-contrast black-and-white, tracing Asheville-inspired landscapes and characters in a curated folio at Asheville Art Museum.
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Letterio Calapai's intricately carved wood engravings evoke animals and fantastic beasts drawn from a medieval bestiary and Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, presenting literary and regional narratives in a focused museum gallery show.

Letterio Calapai's intricately carved wood engravings evoke animals and fantastic beasts drawn from a medieval bestiary and Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, presenting literary and regional narratives in a focused museum gallery show.
Letterio Calapai's intricately carved wood engravings evoke animals and fantastic beasts drawn from a medieval bestiary and Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, presenting literary and regional narratives in a focused museum gallery show.

Meticulous wood engravings by Letterio Calapai render scenes from Thomas Wolfe's semi-autobiographical 1929 novel, capturing a fictionalized Asheville in a folio of prints displayed in museum galleries through Feb. 22, 2026.

Meticulous wood engravings by Letterio Calapai render scenes from Thomas Wolfe's semi-autobiographical 1929 novel, capturing a fictionalized Asheville in a folio of prints displayed in museum galleries through Feb. 22, 2026.
Meticulous wood engravings by Letterio Calapai render scenes from Thomas Wolfe's semi-autobiographical 1929 novel, capturing a fictionalized Asheville in a folio of prints displayed in museum galleries through Feb. 22, 2026.

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