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Style: Modern
Medium: Mezzotint
Crushed Beetle / Fragile Series
By Lois Ward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lois Ward created a Fragile Series of images including "Crushed Beetle" in 1990 in a very small edition of just 9. This impression is #1 of 9.
Ward has always been concerned with t...
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Materials
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Zebragram (a stylized circular design created by repeated imagery of a zebra)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the zebra. ...
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Snail in a Bowl (Artist Proof inscribed to Fritz Eichenberg)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg.
While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting.
Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked.
Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium.
Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print.
There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...
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1980s Modern Mezzotint Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Violin et Coquille (violin and shell / inscribed Happy New Year 2000)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This black and white mezzotint of a shell next to a violin is an artist proof that was inscribed Happy New Year 2000 and signed by the artist. The regular e...
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1990s American Modern Mezzotint Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Red Damsel (Human looks at small Tinker Bell like figure)
By Lois Ward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lois Ward's "Red Damsel" is a color mezzotint created in 1994 in a very small edition of just 10. This impression is #2 of 10. A young human figure in green gazes down on a Tinker B...
Category
1990s American Modern Mezzotint Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Deerflake (The artist's first work celebrating the Solstice / deer as snowflake)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the deer. T...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Mezzotint Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Frog Cog
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the frog. T...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Mezzotint Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Carpe Diem I
Located in New Orleans, LA
this impression is #46 from edition of 50
Mezzotint artist Mikio Watanabe was born in 1954 in Japan and currently lives in France. He is most known for his elegant, evocative black ...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Mezzotint Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Elephant Equilibriste, Signed Surrealist Mezzotint by Mario Avati
By Mario Avati
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mario Avati, French (1921 - 2009)
Title: Elephant Equilibriste
Year: 1969
Medium: Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 35/50
Image Size: 17.5 x 24 inches
Size: 2...
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1960s Modern Mezzotint Animal Prints
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Birds of Paradigm
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the elephan...
Category
1980s American Modern Mezzotint Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Lizards - Original handsigned etching / 90ex
Located in Paris, IDF
Mikio WATANABE (1954-)
Lizards , 2003
Original etching (Mezzotint)
Signed and dated in pencil
Numbered / 90 ex
On vellum 57 x 35 cm (c. 22.4 x 13.7 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Early 2000s Modern Mezzotint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Mezzotint
Small Soldier Travelling in a Fish - Original Handsigned Etching - Ltd 60 copies
Located in Paris, IDF
Richard DAVIES (1945-1991)
Small Soldier Travelling in a Fish
Original etching and mezzotint
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 60
On vellum 41 x 33 cm (c. 16 x 13 inch)
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Category
1980s Modern Mezzotint Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
Snow Does (Doe, a deer - a female deer)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exclusive publication for Stone and Press Gallery, "Snow Does" was created in an edition of 100. It is FIROS #66 in the catalogue raisonne.
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting.
In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
Category
1990s American Modern Mezzotint Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Trunk Lines (Interweaved faces, ears and the trunks of elephants form design)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the elephan...
Category
1980s American Modern Mezzotint Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
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