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Cuca RomleyHand Colored Etching - Nostalgia Railroad - Last1982
1982
$4,000
£3,124.32
€3,541.79
CA$5,734.45
A$6,290.38
CHF 3,291.22
MX$74,868
NOK 41,570.14
SEK 38,993.54
DKK 26,452.04
About the Item
This beautiful hand colored etching imaginatively depicts a historical time / place of the nation’s first transcontinental railroad where Union Pacific Railroad meets Central Pacific Railroad.
From a series of limited edition (of 175) - now mostly sold out - of original etchings from respected European artist and ex-New Yorker, Cuca Romley. Ms Romley made a series of etchings of iconic scenes and landmarks in US and Europe.
The piece is brand new. Last one from artist.
Nostalgia Rail Road, 1982
Image 17x22.2”
Paper 20.2x 25.2”
Edition XXV/CLXXV (25/175)
Edn of 175
Every etching in the limited edition is hand painted and signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
On CMF Fabiano paper
Signature: Signed lower right
Provenance: Gallery acquired, from Artist
Background:
In 1862, the US Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act, and President Abraham Lincoln signed it. Two railroad companies took part in the project. The Central Pacific began from Sacramento, California, building eastward across the Sierra Nevada mountains and Nevada. The Union Pacific started from Omaha, Nebraska, and built westward across the Great Plains and Wyoming. Using mule teams, explosives, shovels, picks, and hammers, workers crept toward each other over 1,500 long miles. On May 10, 1869, a team of Chinese workers for the Central Pacific Railroad and a team of Irish workers for the Union Pacific Railroad lined up the final rails and support timbers. The nation’s first transcontinental railroad was completed at Promontory, Utah.
Source: ilovehistory utah gov
Ms Romley is in her '90s, and currently based in Spain after spending decades in New York City. She was trained at The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), a distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France.
The artist won several noted awards for her art in her native Spain, and in Paris, France. She worked as an artist and also had a career in advertising, illustration and interior design, in Spain, France and New York. As an artist, she has had solo and group exhibitions first Paris, France, Monaco, Japan, Spain and the US.
ETCHINGS
Cuca Romley’s etchings of both famous and little places around the world are depicted with a remarkable attention to detail, a style that belies her sophisticated sense of line and color. These etchings capture a bygone era of a city in flux, and a snap shot of a classic image of a place. Each plate is etched with patience and a thoroughness reminiscence of the earlier days of engraving, in exquisite and fine detail.
Romley creates her intricate design on the etching ground that covers the copper plate. After the acid has etched the lines into the copper plate she engraves the details into the plate with a buril until the image is completed. For each individual print a master printer must ink the plate and wipe the surface clean. The plate is placed on the bed of the press and the previously wet French Arches paper 100% cotton covering the plate to pass through the press, and that completes the printing process.
After the printing ink has dried for a couple of days, the etching is ready for the hand coloring by the artist. There are often more than 30 colors in one of Romley’s images. Each print can take up to 6 hours to color; these colors impart a subtle transparent effect that compliments the delicacy of the line.
Every etching in the limited edition is then signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.
Size specified is the size of the copper plate, I.e. the image size.
Exhibition (selection)
1933 Born in Madrid, SPAIN (age 81)
1952-55 Fashion Illustrator, SPAIN
Prize - Galerias Preciado , Sindicato Nacional Textil, Madrid, SPAIN
2nd Prize - Salon Nacional de Dibujos de Alta Costura, Madrid, SPAIN
1957-60 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FRANCE
1961-68 Career in advertising, illustration and interior design, Paris, FRANCE
1962 Exhibition at Galerie Charbonel, Monte-Carlo, MONACO
1957 – 1967 This was a period of many exhibitions in Paris galleries, FRANCE
1967 First Prize - Salon de L'Union des Femmes Peintres, Paris, FRANCE
1971 - 2010
This period documents a move to New York City for work and art. The artist made New York City home, and has had numerous group and solo exhibitions in New York, California during this fruitful period, including several shows at JP Morgan Chase, and New York Institute of Technology.
2012 - The artist is based in Barcelona, Spain
2013- 2014 The BDG Gallery Barcelona, Spain
SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY
- Creator:Cuca Romley (1933, American)
- Creation Year:1982
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)
- Medium:
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- Framing:Framing Options Available
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- Gallery Location:Los Angeles, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU24117121062
Cuca Romley
Cuca Romley was trained at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), a distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France. Romley won several noted awards for her art in her native Spain, and in Paris, France. She worked as an artist and also had a career in advertising, illustration and interior design, in Spain, France and New York. As an artist, she has had solo and group exhibitions, first Paris, France, Monaco, Japan, Spain and the US.
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