Category: Prints and Printmaking
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Adoration of the Shepherds, Rembrandt etching
The Adoration of the Shepherds, with the lamp, Rembrandt van Rijn; etching, roughly 6 x 7″ (14 x 17 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum’s page indicates this is the first of three states. I looked around a bit but I can’s find a later state, though several major…
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler’s Black Lion Wharf
Black Lion Warf, James McNeill Whistler, etching, roughly 6 x 9 inches (15 x 22 cm); link is to the impression in the collection the National Gallery of Art, DC. Their site has both a zoomable and high resolution downloadable version of the image, as does Wikimedia Commons. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing in…
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Sydney Long
Sydney Long was an Australian painter and printmaker whose style was influenced by the Australian Heidelberg school, French Barbizon school plein air, Symbolism and Art Nouveau.
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Eye Candy for Today: Claude Mellan single line engraving
Face of Christ on St. Veronica’s Cloth (alternately: Sudarium of Saint Veronica), Claude Mellan, engraving on paper, roughly 17 x 13 in. (43 x 31 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (click on image to zoom, click small down arrow to download) This remarkable engraving by 17th century French engraver and…
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Tavík František Šimon
Tavík František Šimon was a printmaker and painter from what is now the Czech Republic who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His etchings, woodcuts, aquatints and mezzotints have a wonderful sense of space and air, and yet often retain the visual charm and wiry strength of line drawings.
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William H. Hays
William H. Hays is a printmaker who works in linocut and woodblock color printmaking methods. These involve either multiple blocks or a reduction process, in which additional areas of the block are cut away for each successive application of color. There is a blog post on his website that describes his process, and a short…