Earl Horter was born in 1881 in Germantown, Pennsylvania and was known for his realistic etchings and aquatints of urban scenes, though he was also an illustrator and painter. As a teenager, he engraved stock certificates. He was essentially self-taught, though he did take an etching class when he moved to New York City in 1903 to work for an advertising agency. Horter had a one-man show in 1916 in New York City at the Frederick Keppel and Company gallery. He was given the exhibition by Carl Zigrosser, later the first Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art. Horter was back in Philadelphia in 1917, where he would remain until his death in 1940. He worked there as an art director for the N. W. Ayer advertising firm from 1917–23. Horter was a member of the Society of Illustrators. He exhibited at the Pan American Exposition in 1915 in San Francisco, California; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; and the Philadelphia Print Club's National Exhibition of Prints; as well as Corcoran Gallery biennials from 1935–39, in Washington, D.C. Horter is listed in Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Artists, Who Was Who in American Art and Mallett's Index of Artists. Though not a man of extraordinary means, Horter was a lover of modernist art, which he gradually purchased, creating an important collection, well ahead of its time in America, of Cubist and Precisionist works, as well as African sculpture and Native American artifacts. Horter collected include Europeans Picasso, Braque, Duchamp and Brancusi and Americans Charles Sheeler and Arthur B. Carles. He was a friend of Carles, as well as other artists and collectors such as Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra; Franklin Watkins; S. S. White; and Carroll Tyson. Horter turned a Philadelphia brownstone into a studio and gallery to house his collection, aided by Paul Cret, the designer of the Barnes Foundation and Rodin Museum. By 1931, Horter would begin selling his collection due to financial need brought about by the Depression. Horter was also a teacher in Philadelphia at the Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art; Graphic Sketch Club (now the Fleisher Art Memorial); and the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts). In 1998, the Philadelphia Museum of Art put on an exhibition, “Mad for Modernism,” Horter and his collection, assembling once again many of the major works of art that comprised the artist's collection. In 1934, the Museum, then called the Pennsylvania Museum, had previously exhibited Horter's collection, though some of the works had already been sold. Several of Horter's prints are in the collection of Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.
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'Woolworth Building Under Construction' — Early 20th Century Modernism
By Earl Horter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Earl Horter, 'The Woolworth Building Under Construction', etching, c. 1912, edition not stated. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, in warm black ink, with selectively...
Etching
Manhattan, Industry, Coal, 1911, Earl Horter
By Earl Horter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Coal Pockets and Viaduct, New York (Viaduct at 130th Street, NYC) Etching & Drypoint, 1911 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist New York Financial Institut...
Etching
Dark House Etching by Earl Horter, American Modern, Signed, 1930s
By Earl Horter
Located in New Orleans, LA
Dark House is a soft-ground etching with aquatint signed in pencil by the artist. This image is in the collection of the Detroit Institute of the Arts Printmaker Earl Horter, born in 1881 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, was known for his realistic etchings and aquatints of urban scenes, though he was also an illustrator and painter. As a teenager, he engraved stock certificates. He was essentially self-taught, though he did take an etching class when he moved to New York City in 1903 to work for an advertising agency. Horter had a one-man show in 1916 in New York City at the Frederick Keppel and Company gallery. He was given the exhibition by Carl Zigrosser, later the first Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art. Horter was back in Philadelphia in 1917, where he would remain until his death in 1940. He worked there as art director for the N. W. Ayer advertising firm from 1917-1923. Horter was a member of the Society of Illustrators. He exhibited at the Pan American Exposition in 1915 in San Francisco, California; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; and the Philadelphia Print Club's National Exhibition of Prints; as well as Corcoran Gallery biennials from 1935 to 1939, in Washington, D.C. Horter is listed in "Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Artists"; "Who Was Who in American Art"; and Mallett's "Index of Artists". Though not a man of extraordinary means, Horter was a lover of modernist art, which he gradually purchased, creating an important collection, well ahead of its time in America, of Cubist and Precisionist works, as well as African sculpture and Native American artifacts. Artists Horter collected include Europeans Picasso, Braque, Duchamp and Brancusi, and Americans Charles Sheeler and Arthur B. Carles. He was a friend of Carles, as well as other artists and collectors such as Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra; Franklin Watkins; S. S. White; and Carroll Tyson...
Etching
$500
Coke Plant, Smelting, Philadelphia Indiustry, 1929-1933, Kopper's Coke Works
By Earl Horter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Kopper’s Coke (Philadelphia Coke Works, Bridesburg) Etching & Drypoint, c. 1929-1933 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist New York Financial Institution Th...
Etching
New York, Alley, Nocturne, American Scene, Earl Horter, 1915
By Earl Horter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Nocturne: New York Alley) Graphite on paper, c. 1915 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist New York Financial Institutiom A masterful finished arc...
Graphite
Aircraft Assembly, Liberty V-12 Engine, American Industry, WW 1
By Earl Horter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Aircraft--Engine Assembly Line (Workers Installing a Liberty V-12 Engine) Etching with Drypoint, c. 1917-1920 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist New York...
Etching
New York, Skyline, Financial District, Boats, New York Waterfront
By Earl Horter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
New York Waterfront and Skyline (also recorded as N.Y. Waterfront & Skyline and View of the New York Waterfront) Etching, 1930-1935 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist ...
Etching
"Home in New Jersey" Earl Horter, American Home, House in Countryside, Sky
By Earl Horter
Located in New York, NY
Earl Horter Home in New Jersey, 1933 Signed and dated lower right Watercolor on card with a pencil sketch on the reverse 16 1/4 x 19 3/4 inches Provenance Private Collection, New Yo...
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Chinatown, New York, 1914, original drawing, Earl Horter
By Earl Horter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chinatown (New York) Graphite on paper, 1914 Signed and titled lower right (See photo) The scene is more plausibly New York’s Chinatown, possibly around Mott, Pell, or Doyers Street ...
Graphite
Earl Horter, (European Fountain)
By Earl Horter
Located in New York, NY
Signed in pencil. A European town square with fountain and tower.
Etching
Autocar Truck Assembly, 1929, Workmen, American Industry
By Earl Horter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Machinists with Truck Engines (Autocar Truck Assembly Line) Etching with Drypoint, c. 1929 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist New York Financial Institu...
Etching
Oil Refinery, American Energy, Trucks, 1931 Petroleum Workers
By Earl Horter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Oil Refinery Etching & Drypoint, c. 1931 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist New York Financial Institution The etching appears to show a petroleum bulk-s...
Etching
NEW YORK CITYSCAPE
By Earl Horter
Located in Portland, ME
Horter, Earl. NEW YORK CITYSCAPE. Etching, not dated. Edition size not known. Printed on heavy laid paper, and signed in pencil. 6 1/2 x 6 1/8 inche...
Etching
Still Life
By Earl Horter
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Best known as an impassioned supporter and avid collector of modern art, Earl Horter was also an artist himself. Largely self-taught, Horter was a highly skilled draftsman and engrav...
Paper, Pastel
In the Harbor
By Earl Horter
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Earl Horter was a self-taught artist who began his career working in New York City as a draftsman at an advertising agenc...
Aquatint
CHURCH IN SNOW
By Earl Horter
Located in Portland, ME
Horter, Earl (American, 1881-1940). UNTITLED (CHURCH IN SNOW). Etching and aquatint, not dated. Signed in pencil, lower right. 6 1/4 x 5 inches (plate), 11 x 8 5/8 inches (sheet). An...
Etching, Aquatint
Three Cubist Still Life Studies by Philadelphia Artist and Collector Earl Horter
By Earl Horter
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Earl Horter (American, 1883-1940) Three Still Life Studies Pencil on paper, 7 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches; Framed: 17 x 21 inches NOTE: while originally mounted with archival materials, the...
Paper, Pencil
Master Plan Study, Monroe
By Grover Mouton
Located in New Orleans, LA
Architect and artist Grover Mouton brings utilizes hand drawings to illustrate urban design proposals. Acting as a catalyst to explore design concepts,...
Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Graphite
Romany Marye in Christopher Street
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan (1871-1951), Romany Marye in Christopher Street, 1922, etching, signed in pencil lower right, titled, dated and inscribed 100 proofs bott...
Etching
Anshutz on Anatomy
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan (1871-1951), Anshutz on Anatomy, etching, 1912, signed titled and inscribed “100 proofs” by the artist, and also signed “Ernest Roth imp” by the printer. Reference: Morse 155, eighth state (of 8), from the edition of 80. In very good condition, the full sheet, printed in dark brown ink on a brown/tan wove paper, 7 1/2 x 9, the sheet 11 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches. A fine impression. Sloan wrote of this print: “Tom Anshutz, our old teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy, gave anatomical demonstrations of great value to art students. Modelling the muscles in clay, he would then fix them in place on the skeleton. Those present in this etched record of a talk in Henri’s New York class include: Robert and Linda Henri, George Bellows, Walter Pach...
Etching
'Spirit of Buffalo' — Urban Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Spirit of Buffalo', etching, edition not stated, c. 1927. Signed in pencil. Annotated 'Spirit of Buffalo 522', in another hand, in the bottom right margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, with skillfully-controlled plate tone, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches; sheet size 12 1/4 x 15 7/8 inches. ABOUT THE ARTIST Etcher, painter, and architect, Anton Schutz was born in Germany in 1894. He studied at the University of Munich, earning a double degree in mechanical engineering...
Etching
Manhattan Bridge — 1920s New York City
By George Stimmel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Manhattan Bridge', etching, c. 1920, proofs only. Signed in ink in the image, lower right. A fine, rich impression, in warm black ink, on cream wove ...
Etching
Bourges – The Cathedral of St. Étienne
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on watermarked handmade F J Head & Co cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 14 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches (358 x 232 mm); sheet 18 1/8 x 11 inches (461 x 280 mm), full margins. Signed...
Handmade Paper, Etching
Soaring New York
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in New York, NY
Howard Cook (1901-1980), Soaring New York, aquatint, soft0ground etching, roulette, 1931-2; signed, dated and annotated “imp” in pencil lower right, titled lower margin. Reference: D...
Etching
$25,000
H 28.5 in W 35.5 in D 1.5 in
"Dilworth Street" 1940 by Allan Rohan Crite Watercolor Boston African American
By Allan Rohan Crite
Located in Yardley, PA
About this work: A superb example from Crite’s celebrated Neighborhood Series, this work is both a vibrant portrait of everyday life and an irreplaceable record of a vanished Boston ...
Watercolor, Board, Graphite
WESTERN GRANDEUR
By Harold Lukens Doolittle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD LUKENS DOOLTTLE (1883 - 1974) WESTERN GRANDEUR c. 1945 Aquatint, signed titled and dedicated. Image 9 ¾ x 13 5/8 inches. Large full sheet with deckle edges 15 ½ x 19 inches...
Aquatint
Montparnasse Street
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in New York, NY
Montparnasse Street– 1931, Etching Duffy 128. Edition 50, only 25 printed. Signed, dated, and annotated imp and 50 in pencil. Image size 4 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (124 x 251 mm); sh...
Etching
$4,900
H 20 in W 17 in
42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in New York, NY
42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway. 10 x 7 1/2 inches. Graphite on paper. Signed, titled "42nd Street" and dated July 26, 1923, lower l...
Paper, Pencil
Vanity
By Louis Russomanno
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Vanity" 1980 is an original sepia etching by American artist Louis Russomanno, b.1946. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 113/185 in pencil by the artist. Th...
Etching
Delaware River Landscape (Philadelphia Modernist)
By Earl Horter
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Earl Horter (1881-1940). Delaware River Landscape, ca. 1930. Watercolor on paper, 9 x 12 inches. Signed lower right. Unframed. Excellent condition with no ...
Paper, Watercolor
Across the Potomac
By Earl Horter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and titled in pencil Soft ground etching Annotated: “Imp” for impression printed by the artist Note: The Washington Monument in the distance Provenance: New York Corporate Art...
Etching
Lower Manhattan
By Earl Horter
Located in Plano, TX
Lower Manhattan. c. 1925. Etching and drypoint. 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 (sheet 12 1/2 x 9 5/8). A rich impression printed with plate tone on cream wove paper. ...
Etching
Old Chinatown (New York)
By Earl Horter
Located in Plano, TX
Old Chinatown (New York). 1932. Aquatint. 10 x 12 1/4 (sheet 11 5/8 x 13 1/4). A rich impression printed with plate tone on cream wove paper. Unsigned. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch arch...
Etching
Archway, with Newsstand. (France).
By Earl Horter
Located in Plano, TX
5 3/8 x 4 (sheet 8 1/4 x 5 3/8). A rich impression with plate tone printed on cream wove paper. Unsigned. Earl Horter was born in 1881 in Germantown, Pen...
Etching
Dark House (Philadelphia).
By Earl Horter
Located in Plano, TX
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...
Etching, Aquatint
Ponte Fabricio, Rome.
By Earl Horter
Located in Plano, TX
Aquatint printed in colors. 6 1/4 x 5 5/8 (sheet 9 3/4 x 7). A rich, tonal impression printed on cream wove paper. Signed in pencil. Earl Horter was born in 1881 in Germantown, Pe...
Color, Aquatint
Mount Vernon - Rear.
By Earl Horter
Located in Plano, TX
Mount Vernon - Rear. c. 1930. Etching. 8 5/8 x 11 1/2 (sheet 11 1/4 x 15 5/8). Series: Historic Homes of Virginia A fine impression printed on cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. Signed in pencil. Earl Horter...
Etching
New York Waterfront
By Earl Horter
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Earl Horter was a self-taught artist who began his career working in New York City as a draftsman at an advertising agency. Horter became well known...
Etching