Category: Prints and Printmaking
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Eye Candy for Today: Auguste Lepere etching
Old Housea at Amiens, Auguste Lepère, etching. This is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in DC, which has a high resolution downloadable and zoomable image file. For some reason, they don’t list the etching’s physical size. My guess from the size of the needle marks would be around 5×7″ (13 x…
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Color woodcuts by Émile Antoine Verpilleux
Émile Antoine Verpilleux was an English-Belgian artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though also a painter, he was noted for his color woodcuts with their subtle but striking use of atmospheric perspective. He seems to treat the layers of distance in his images as distinct planes, almost like a stage set.
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Dave Bruner (update)
I first encountered the reduction prints and wood engravings of printmaker Dave Bruner back in 2006 at a long running art even there in Philadelphia. I was delighted to run into him again at this year’s event and get a chance to come up to date on his current work. Reduction prints are multi colors…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt’s Omval
The Omval, Rembrandt van Rijn, etching and drypoint, roughly 7 x 9 inches (19×23 cm); this printing is in the collection of the Metropolitan museum of Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. Rembrandt was, in my opinion, the greatest master of etching and drypoint in history. Though many…
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler etching of Annie Haden
Annie Haden, James McNeill Whistler, drypoint, roughly 19 x 13 inches (35 x 21 cm). This printing of the plate is in the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the file. (The museum has a collection of Whistler’s work, presumably in his role as an American…