Red Haws

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Bertha Evelyn Clausen Jaques
Red Haws
1921

About the Item

Jaques 327. Drypoint with hand coloring. 11 3/4 x 7 3/4 (sheet 16 1/4 x 10 1/4). Provenance: the artist's estate. A fine impression with fresh, bright colors. Signed, lower right. Housed in a period 20 x 15 1/2-inch gold frame. The rose hip, also called rose haw and rose hep, is the accessory fruit of the rose plant. It is typically red to orange but ranges from dark purple to black in some species. Rose hips begin to form after successful pollination of flowers in spring or early summer and ripen in late summer through autumn. Rose hips are used for herbal teas, jam, jelly, syrup, rose hip soup, beverages, pies, bread, wine, and marmalade. They can also be eaten raw, like a berry, if care is used to avoid the hairs inside the fruit. \Bertha Clausen Jaques was an influential American printmaker in the early twentieth century. She saw an exhibition of the new French etchings at the Chicago Columbian Exposition. Subsequently, she bought a copper plate at the hardware store. She found wax, pitch, and nitric acid. She wrapped a paint roller with leather and located an old dentist's drill. Her physician husband helped her fashion etching equipment from surgical tools. Later, she got a press from Milwaukee. Then, in 1897, she created some of the first etchings in the Midwest. Jaques collaborated with Helen Hyde while she was in the Orient. Jaques was the author of Concerning Etchings (1912), Country Quest (1936), and Helen Hyde and Her Work, An Appreciation (1922). She was a founder of the Chicago Society of Etchers, that held its first exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute. The society became the model for other etching societies, making fine prints available to a broad and receptive public. In forty-seven years, the Chicago Society of Etchers exhibited least 40,000 prints across America. Bertha Jaques left a creative legacy as mentor, organizer, writer and printmaker. An active printmaker, Bertha Jaques created over 400 etchings and drypoints. None of her works was printed in a large edition. Landscape and botanical images predominate. She experimented with color and technique, applying color by hand, and making counter proofs (which she termed 'ghost prints'). She knew the Latin botanical names of most of the plants, and found beautiful specimens as models. She also used plants to make cyanotypes, and was an early experimenter in the medium.

Creator:
Bertha Evelyn Clausen Jaques (1863 - 1941, American)
Creation Year:
1921
Dimensions:
Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Medium:
Drypoint
Movement & Style:
American Modern
Period:
Early 20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Storrs, CT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU33521958603