Norman Ackroyd

Early Morning Rain

1977

La Grande Cascade de Saint Cloud Color aquatint on watermarked Arches J Perrigot paper, 1905 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right. (see photo) Edition: 100. Numbered "39" in pencil lower left. Titled in pencil verso Published by Edmund Sagot, Paris, his dry stamp lower right below signature. Image: 23-1/8 x 17-3/8" (58.7 x 44 cm.) From the British Museum: "Colour etcher. Born in Livorno from a family of wealthy Swiss cotton merchants, studied with Giuseppe Ciaranfi and Michele Gordigiani in Florence. In 1886 exhibited with Fattori, Achille Lega and Tommasi in the Prima Esposizione delle Belle Arti in Livorno. In 1888 he and his family moved to Paris, where he studied first with François Flameng until 1892 and later with Carolus-Duran. Müller remained in the French capital until the outbreak of the First World War, taking French citizenship in 1913. He worked in the countryside at Barbizon, Suresnes and elsewhere, but also made frequent visits to his native country, where he exhibited regularly in Florence with the Promotrice Fiorentine. His early work was indebted to Fattori and Plinio Nomellini, but he soon became interested in the Impressionists and was credited by the critic Mario Tinti with introducing the luminism of Monet into Italian art. Müller was a member of the Société des Artistes Indépendents and exhibited regularly in the Paris dealer George Petit's annual exhibitions of colour prints. He made his first print in 1896, a lithographic portrait of the poet Paul Verlaine in the Café Procope. The following year Müller made his first colour aquatints. Among them were a series of illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy. In style his etchings and aquatints were influenced by Manuel Robbe. Very occasionally he combined drypoint or soft ground etching with aquatint. Müller's principal publisher was Pierrefort, who also issued prints by Toulouse-Lautrec. After 1903 he largely abandoned aquatint for pure etching. Fourteen of his colour etchings were reproduced over a number of months in the weekly magazine 'Le Courrier français'. Müller also made a small number of colour lithographs, some of which were published by the Parisian print dealer Sagot. A single monotype of Mallarmé done in 1911, thirteen years after the poet's death in 1898, is recorded. Müller made a few landscape prints and a couple of etchings of fishing boats, but his principal subject was young women in long dresses. Often there is an aura of fin-de-siècle wistfulness. When he returned to Italy, he lived first in Taormina, then in Florence, and finally settled in a villa at Settignano. Müller largely abandoned printmaking after 1914. Only three more prints by him made in 1920, 1925 and 1933 are recorded after he moved back to his native country. Müller was a regular exhibitor in Florentine exhibitions, the most significant of which was the 1922 Primaverile Fiorentina. He returned to France in 1930 where he died in 1939. (Text by Martin Hopkinson)" Said to rival the fountains at Versailles, La Grande Cascade is still turned on for a few hours every Sunday in June. The Grande Cascade, constructed in 1664-1665 by Antoine Le Pautre has survived. The château was expanded by Phillipe de France, duc d'Orléans in the 17th century, and finally enlarged by Marie Antoinette in the 1780s. Napoleon I and Napoleon III also used the palace, which was a U-shaped scheme of three sections, open to the east. Destroyed by fire (with the exception of a few outbuildings and its majestic garden) in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War. The burned-out shell stood until 1891, when it was demolished. The gardens were replanned by André Le Nôtre...

Desolation, S.C. or Deserted Cabins, Beauford, S.C. Etching & Aquatint, c. 1930 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo) Annotated "Trial Proof" in pencil lower left co...

Brittany Landscape with Figure Etching & color aquatint, c. 1920 Signed lower right (see photo) Numbered lower left: "No. 21" (see photo) An early ...

Signed and numbered in pencil; Signed in the plate Edition: 75 Provenance: Frederick Keppel & Co. Inc. No. L 8621 (label) References And Exhibitions: Published by Edmund Sagot, ...

Signed, dated and titled in pencil by the artist from a very small edition.

Looking Back Etching with hand coloring by the artist, 1994 Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil lower left (see photo) Edition: 67 (49/67) (see photo) References And Exhibitions: Franco & Verne, Quiet Elegance: Japan Through the Eyes of Nine American Artists, 1997. Illustrated pg. 61. Cited as a “great print” by Stewart pg. 53. Note: An important print by the artist Joel Stewart Biography Museum Collections: • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, USA Hoehn Family Galleries, University of San Diego, USA Group Exhibitions: 2020 The Terminal, Kyoto, “Kyoen” 2019 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, “Long Live Rembrandt” Alt Space POST Gallery, Kyoto, “The Echo Of Songs” 2018 Hakuhou-Doh Gallery, Kyoto, Japan – “Ki Ni Naru” CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan 2017 Kyoto Municipal Museum Of Art – “Kyoten 2017” CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan 2016 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan 2015 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 60th Annual Exhibition 2014 Kyoto Municipal Museum Of Art – “Kyoten 2014” The Kura, Kyoto, Japan – Collaborative Paintings With The Mangold Collection 2012 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 56th Annual Exhibition 2011 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 55th Annual Exhibition 2008 Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA, “Making Waves – Contemporary Japanese Prints” 2007 Library Of Congress, Washington D.C., USA – “On The Cutting Edge: Contemporary Japanese Prints” 2006 Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA – “Mahaffey Fine Art: 14 Years, 14 Artists” LA County Museum Of Art, California, USA – “Modern Japanese Prints: Etchings” CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 50th Annual Exhibition 2005 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 49th Annual Exhibition 2004 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 48th Annual Exhibition 2003 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 47th Annual Exhibition 2002 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 46th Annual Exhibition 2001 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 46th Annual Exhibition 2000 Cleveland Museum Of Art, Ohio, USA, “East Meets West: Modern Japanese Prints” CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 46th Annual Exhibition 1999 Tolman Collection Gallery, Tokyo, Japan – “Miyabi” CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 46th Annual Exhibition 1998 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Indiana, USA, “One Common Denominator” CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 46th Annual Exhibition 1997 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 46th Annual Exhibition 1996 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 46th Annual Exhibition 1995 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 46th Annual Exhibition 1994 Kawaguchi Bijutsu Gallery, Kyoto, Japan – “Prints By Painters” 1993 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 46th Annual Exhibition 1992 Kato Gallery, Tokyo, Japan – Spring Show 1990 CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan – 46th Annual Exhibition 1987 Cydney Payton Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA – Group Exhibition Osaka Modern Art Center, Osaka, Japan – Biennale 1986 Voice Gallery, Kyoto, Japan – 3 Man Show 1983 Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, USA, Biennial Show 1983 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, USA, Biennial Show One Person Exhibitions: 2020 Alt Space POST, Kyoto, Japan, “Floating Screens”, Pop-Up Installation 2019 Hasu Projects, Kyoto, Japan, “Gojo Rakuen”, Pop-Up Installation 2017 Hakuhou-Doh Gallery Hakuhou-Doh Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, “Fractured Fairy Tales, A New Print Series” 2015 Hakuhou-Doh Gallery 2013 Nishi Bijutsu Gallery 2011 Azuma Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA ,“Recent Works” 2010 Fushimi Souko, Kyoto, Japan , “Crossroads: A Folding Screen Installation” 2005 Azuma Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA , “Recent Works” 2004 Kato Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2002 Kato Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Azuma Gallery Seattle, Washington, USA 2001 Keihan Art Salon, Osaka, Japan 2000 Azuma Gallery, Seattle Washington, USA, “New Works” Ren Brown...

September 13, 1918. St. Mihiel [The Great Black Cloud]. 1934. Etching, aquatint and sandpaper ground. Giardina catalog 182 state iv. 10 3/8 x 16 (sheet 13 1/8 x 18 1/4). Edition 100. Illustrated: Prints vol. VI, no. 2, 1935, page 85; Print Collector's Quarterly 26 (1939): 82; Fine Prints of the Year, 1935; Eby. War. Provenance: Frederick Keppel & Co. A rich, beautifully wiped impression on cream-colored wove paper. Signed and annotated 'imp' and 'Edition 100' in pencil, indicating a proof printed by the artist. This is Eby's most famous etching...

The First Wooden Temple of Jupiter or Restoration of one of the first Temples of Jupiter Capitolinus, Rome.Dickins 47. 5 1/8 x 7 1/8 (sheet 9 3/16 x 11 5...

c. 1932. Aquatint. 10 1/4 x 11 (sheet 12 5/8 x 15 1/2). A rich impression printed with plate tone on countermarked French wove paper. Unsigned; annotated 'Dark House (Aqua)' in Horter's hand. Another impression is in the Library of Congress. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing. Earl Horter...

From Knoedler's Window MCMXXV. 1935. Etching and Aquatint. Fletcher catalog 293 stateiv/v. Image: 5 1/16 x 4 15/16 (sheet 12/7/8 x 9 1/8). Edition 271 in this state (total edition 3...

Charing Cross at Night. 1909. Mezzotint. Wuerth 510. 11 7/8 x 10 (sheet 15 x 10 3/4). Edition probably 30. Printed on 'Rome'cream laid paper, probably fr...

New England Winter: The Old Homestead. 1896. Etching and aquatint printed in grey-green. 7 3/4 x 11 3/4 (sheet 10 x 13 1/16). A rich impression in p...