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Still Night (Brooklyn brownstones on 7th Avenue off Flatbush Avenue)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Still Night", Frederick Mershimer depicts a row of brownstone houses on Seventh Avenue near Flatbush Avenue between Park and Stirling Places. Mershimer remembers that as he was ...
Category
1980s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
The Lonely Tower
By Percival Gaskell
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a fine aquatint etching by British artist Percival Gaskell. The title is: The Lonely Tower, Roman Campagna, it was created and printed in 1924 in an edition of 150. The ima...
Category
1930s English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Twilight (an otherworldly nude reclines under a dusky moon)
By Paul Wunderlich
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul Wunderlich created a series of 12 lithographs,Twilight together with his wife, Karin Szekessy, a fine art photographer. This image is of an other worldly nude reclining on a tab...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ascension (Traffic in front of St. Bartholomew / Park Ave bet 50th and 51s
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
An overflow of traffic in front of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Cathedral on Park Avenue between 50th and 51st
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Bourbon Street, New Orleans
By Doris Barsky Kreindler
Located in New Orleans, LA
This rare lithograph is impression #36 out of a total of 50
Kreindler’s first solo exhibition was held at the Brooklyn Museum in 1935. Her travels became the basis for her later exhi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lux Aeterna I (Eternal Light -The Requiem/ copters hover over fearful refugees)
By Ana Maria Pacheco
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ana Maria Pacheco portrays the fear and feelings of the displacement of refugees cowering beneath helicopters overhead. The title of the work refers ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Waiting For My Train(track crossings that create Chicago EL / Merchandise Mart)
By Martin Levine
Located in New Orleans, LA
Waiting for my Train is #55 from edition of 100. "Waiting for my train" is the stop right before the tracks cross, and create Chicago's famous "Loop", on the above ground EL. The M...
Category
1980s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Chepstow Castle ( on a limestone cliff above the River Wye in Wales)
By Percival Gaskell
Located in New Orleans, LA
The magnificent printed works of the Yorkshire artist, Percival Gaskell have only been fully rediscovered in recent years. Percival Gaskell rose to prominence whilst working together with Sir Frank Short in the engraving school at the Royal College of Art in London during the first two decades of the 20th century. A true painter-printmaker, Percival Gaskell developed a sensitivity to atmospheric tone which is displayed in an air of timeless beauty throughout his printed works.
(sheet 24 x 20 1/2). A fine impression with tone printed in warm brown/black ink on chine appliqué mounted on white wove paper, and a backing board. Signed in pencil. Superb signed proof impression printed in warm-brownish-black ink. One of Gaskell's best large scale mezzotints.
The speed with which William the Conqueror committed to the creation of a castle at Chepstow is testament to its strategic importance. There is no evidence for a settlement there of any size before the Norman invasion of Wales, although it is possible that the castle site itself may have previously been a prehistoric or early...
Category
1940s English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
Dawn
By Percival Gaskell
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mezzotint. 8 x 9 7/8 (sheet 13 7/8 x 19 3/4). A fine impression with tone printed in dark brown ink on white wove paper. Signed in pencil.
Category
1930s English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Foggy Night (the way home or a Stephen King setting)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is #22
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 mez...
Category
2010s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Delayed (suburban New Jersey commuter walks thru rain because bus is late)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Delayed" is an edition of 100.
Art Werger creates a memory of his boyhood home in suburban New Jersey. It's late, cold and rainy as this woman raises her umbrella to brave the wal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Looking Up (left profile of a man looking toward the heavens)
By Maurice Pasternak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maurice Pasternak has created a surreal landscape that includes several spirit-like creatures seeming to wander in an unknown landscape He moves images around on the paper to create ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Congregational Church, Old Lyme, CT. (quintessential New England landmark)
By Walter DuBois Richards
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Old Lyme Congregational Church located on Ferry Road, a quintessentially New England landmark, was captured by Walter DuBois Richards. The church was a favorite subject of Old Ly...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ocean Terminal I
By Craig McPherson
Located in New Orleans, LA
Craig McPherson captures a night view of the neon lights from commercial signs reflected in the water at Ocean Terminal in Kowloon, as seen from the terminal of the Star Ferry to cen...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Rainy Day / Fifth Avenue in New York
By Levon West
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a rare New York image by Levon West
Levon West, who also used the name Ivan Dimitri, was born on February 3, 1900 in Centerville, North Dakota. ...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Open Air School (iconic image of indigenous teacher by Mexican muralist)
By Diego Rivera
Located in New Orleans, LA
An indigenous teacher, surrounded by her multi-generational students, sits at the edge of a field, open book in hand. In the distance, we see campesinos working the fields with their horses. A lone, armed horseman watches over the class, locating the lithograph in its historical setting, the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Commencement
By Caroline Durieux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Caroline Durieux's image captures a lone figure in her garden in this southern plantation in Louisiana. "Plantation Garden" is a lithograph created by Durieux in 1946 in an edition of 20. It is signed in pencil.
Durieux shared her feeling about this piece with these reflections.
“The spectrum analysis of satire runs from the red of invective at one end to the violet of the most delicate irony at the other.” David Worcester 16, "The Art of Satire".
The feeling expressed in Plantation Garden is that of a dirge with ironic overtones; it is sad, nostalgic yet satirical. The bent figure of the old lady, the ancient trees, the static moss, all seem to belong to the past; even the lady is old. For contrast, a ray of late afternoon sun lights up the only young note in the picture: perennials in the foreground.
When “we are satirical and we are friendly at the same time, the consciousness of the friendship gives a regretful and tender touch to the satire, and the sting of the satire makes the friendship a trifle humble and sad.” George Santayna 255, "The Sense of Beauty".
This concept of satire mixed with friendship comes closer to humor because there is less censure involved. In "Plantation Garden", the satire is tempered by a feeling of empathy.
Caroline Durieux (American, 1896 – 1989)
Printmaker, painter, satirist, innovator, social activist, Caroline Durieux was born in New Orleans and was already making sketches by the age of four. Her formal art training was at Newcomb College (1912-1917) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1918-1920).
Carl Zigrosser of the Philadelphia Museum of Art encouraged Durieux to try lithography. While living in Mexico, she learned lithography from Emilio Amero...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fir Play
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
A series of prints was commissioned by the Met Museum in NY in a regular edition of 40 This impression is from an edition of 5 artist proofs. This impression is #4/5
Carol Wax origi...
Category
2010s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Girders (rainy night view of artist's former studio in Washington Heights
By Craig McPherson
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Griders" is Craig McPherson's rainy night scene showing the view from his former studio in Washington Heights in NYC. The image is the companion pi...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Madison and 50th (GE building on left, Waldorf Astoria and East River)
By Martin Levine
Located in New Orleans, LA
The inspiration for the piece comes from the beautiful New York Magazine logo.
Madison and Fifth is a artist's proof from an edition of 120. The piece was commissioned by the Madis...
Category
2010s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Lafitte's Blacksmith House (a bar named for a pirate on Bourbon St, New Orleans)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a New Orleans landmark at 941 Bourbon St. Like most New Orleans legends, history of Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a gumbo of tru...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
La Colegiata Toro (Romanesque Santa Maria la Mayor/Zamora province Spain)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Taylor Arms created this superb architectural image of La Colegiata in 1935 in an edition of 153. It is #12 in his Spanish Churches series and is referenced as Fletcher #284.
One of the most characteristic examples of transitional Romanesque architecture in Spain, the church of Santa María la Mayor is inspired by the Cathedral of Zamora, in turn inspired by the Old Cathedral of Salamanca. The tower-dome is usually listed as one of the four most typical in León together with those in the cathedrals of Salamanca, Plasencia and Zamora.
The church was begun around 1170, and was finished in the mid-13th century. Two different directors of the work have been identified, according to the different types of stone used (limestone in the old sections, sandstone in the most recent ones), and by the barrel vaults...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Thorns
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is impression #12 of 35 impressions
Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more . . ....
Category
Early 2000s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Old Hoadley House
By John Taylor Arms
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image was in the personal collection of the artist. The Wheeler-Beecher House, sometimes referred to as the Hoadley House, is located on Amity Road in Bethany, CT. Built at the ...
Category
1910s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Sanctuary (St. Anthony's Garden at rear of St. Louis Cathedral on Royal Street)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This French Quarter garden is a serene haven with a lighted statue of Christ that exists not very far from the raucous revelry of New Orleans' Bourbon S...
Category
1990s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Mezzotint
Into the Night (a lone male emerges from a subway stop by the Flatiron Building)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
A lone figure emerges out of bright lights streaming from a subway entrance at the corner of 23rd and Broadway near the Flatiron Building and Madison Square Park. He has just exited the uptown...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Magic (these two figures seated on a beach beneath an active sky evoke emotion)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
An older couple sits on a beach facing the sea as a shooting object streaks through the sky. There is a feeling of connection and contentment conveyed through the imagery. Does the...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Mujeres Veracruzans (three seated women from Vera Cruz Mexico in shawls)
By Francisco Dosamantes
Located in New Orleans, LA
Three native Mexican women all similarly dressed in traditional, flowing white dresses covered in dark, fringed shawls raise their heads as if the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Clairton (night view of US Steel Clairton coke plant, largest in America)
By Craig McPherson
Located in New Orleans, LA
McPherson's night view of the Clairton steelworks is printed on light green laid paper referenced as Hartley M1. It is signed, titled and dated in pencil. Marked ed 75 and "imp" in...
Category
1990s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Pylon (Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan side of East River near South St. Seaport)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
A "Pylon" of the Brooklyn Bridge with the Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge visible in the background is captured in this powerful image by Frederick Mershimer. It is #77 in t...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Destinations (Flatiron Bidg, 5th Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Destinations", Frederick Mershimer creates an image of taxis rushing by the Fuller Building, better known as Flatiron Building. The building is only six feet wide at its rounded...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Mezzotint
Silent Snow (Poetical imagery and Christmas memories in New England)
By Mary Teichman
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is from an exclusive edition published by Stone + Press in 1994 in an edition of 100. This impression is #98. It brings to mind the Robert Frost poem, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Mary Teichman...
Category
1990s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Private Property (Jamaica Bay in Queens NY - now a runaway of JFK airport)
By Martin Levine
Located in New Orleans, LA
Private Property was created in 1982 and is #25 from an edition of 40.
Martin Levine (born 14 May 1945 in New York City) is an American artist.
Levine...
Category
1980s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1990s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
The Old Uppsala Church (Sweden)
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Old Uppsala Church" was done in small edition of 15. This impression is #3.
Gamla Uppsala (Swedish: Old Uppsala) is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden.
As early as the 3rd century AD and the 4th century AD and onwards, it was an important religious, economic and political centre. Early written sources claim that already during pre-history, Gamla Uppsala was well known in Northern Europe as the residence of Swedish kings of the legendary Yngling dynasty In fact, the oldest Scandinavian sources, such as Ynglingatal, the Westrogothic law and the Gutasaga talk of the King of the Swedes (Suiones) as the "King at Uppsala".
During the Middle Ages, it was the largest village of Uppland, the eastern part of which probably originally formed the core of the complex of properties belonging to the Swedish Crown, the so-called Uppsala öd, of which the western part consisted of the royal estate...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
421 Nights: Reach (Silos on Highway 421)
By Donald Furst
Located in New Orleans, LA
Donald Furst has created a series of 10 mezzotints based on Highway 421. U.S. Route 421 is a spur route of U.S. 21. It runs for 941 miles from Fort Fisher, North Carolina south of Wilmington to Michigan City, Indiana at U.S. 20. This image, "421 Nights: Reach", shows the reach of some storage tanks. This impression is #10 from an edition of just 30.
A member of the faculty since 1985, Donald Furst is Professor of Art and former chair (2002-2009) of the UNCW Department of Art and Art History. He has received the following recognitions for teaching: University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1999; University Distinguished Professorship, UNCW, 1996-98; Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award, UNCW, 1996; College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching, UNCW, 1992.
Furst currently operates Ars Longa...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Angel and Skeleton (the rescuing Angel appears to be female)
By Donna Evans
Located in New Orleans, LA
Donna Evans' "Angel and Skeleton" shows an angel reaching out to a skeleton as if to rescue it from a wooded landscape.
Donna Evans is one of a group of N...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Une Fois Rien (Once Again / No Action)
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Christine Ravaux created Une Fois Rien which is signed by pencil. This impression is #12 of 30
Shades of blacks and grays on a fallen branch create a pleasing pattern contrasted wi...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Rio Osmarin (boats on the canal Rio de S. Provolo o de l'Osmarin, Venice)
By Judith Rothchild
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rio Osmarin shows boats on the canal Rio de S. Provolo o de l'Osmarin in Venice) It was created in 2006 and this impression is #31 of 75 It is signed, titled, numbered and dated by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Truck Traffic (Colorful Gridlock in Manhattan)
By David Kapp
Located in New Orleans, LA
A six block woodcut published in an edition of only 23. It is signed and archivaliity
David Kapp is best known for his paintings of the contemporary urban landscape. His paintings ...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Pilot Colde
By Nelson Dawson
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is signed and annotated as etched and printed by the artist.
Three vessels battle angry sea.
Nelson Ethelred Dawson (1859–1941) was an English artist and member of...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Tidal Shift # 1 (Young bathers stroll on beach with others out in surf Montauk)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
'Tidal Shift' refers not only to the endangered coastal tideland but also to the psychological mindset of the characters. At first glance, the image projects seaside relaxation but ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Drift (dramatic nocturne in America's suburbia)
By Jacob Crook
Located in New Orleans, LA
Drift is a hand-pulled mezzotint in an edition of 10. This is #3/10. Location is Jarnigan ST in Starksville, Mississippi
Jacob Crook was born in St. Loui...
Category
2010s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Leaf
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #17 of an edition of 35
Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more . . .
th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Instumento de Reflexion
By Eduardo Leyva Herrera
Located in New Orleans, LA
A copper mezzotint printed on Hahnemulle paper in an edition of 10. This is impression #1.
Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts "San Alejandro" in 2005. Study of graphi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Plum Bob #2 (a multi color lithograph showing brass plum bob and night sky)
By David Morrison
Located in New Orleans, LA
A dramatic gold - colored plumb bob, hanging against a backdrop of geometric drawings, is contrasted with the stars of the night sky. In the Greek Empire...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Scarborough
By Nelson Dawson
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is signed and annotated as etched and printed by the artist. It is numbered No. 56.
Scarborough is a resort town on England’s North Sea coast. Its 2 bays with sandy...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Hambleden Orchard (Farm with chicken, ox and oxcart)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This engraving is from an edition of 60. It is signed and dedicated. A farmyard scene with barn, chicken and ox. It is in excellent condition and is a fine impression. There is a stain in the lower bottom margin away from the image and well below the mat line
Wilfred Fairclough...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le Seuil (The Threshold)
By Judith Rothchild
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Le Seuil" (The Threshold) is an image printed in 2006. This impression is Roman numeral X of XX. It is titled, dated, numbered and signed by the artist.
Judith Rothchild, printma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Characters from the Sketchbooks (from September Storm plus Self Portrait)
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a page from the artist's sketchbooks. Six pencil drawings show figures that might have been in preparation for future lithographs, Certainly the woman with the umbrella could have been an early iteration for September Storm. There is also a self portrait of Nesbitt. Clearly the works are authentic if unsigned. Provenance: from the Nesbitt studio.
From workers wrestling with heavy machinery to a lone horseman traveling down a rut-filled country road; from the animated crowd at a livestock auction to the dignified worshippers at a serene Sunday service; Jackson Lee Nesbitt chose to represent the essence of humanity and the nobility of ordinary folk striving to get along as best they can. He studied with Thomas Hart Benton and John Demartelly...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Exits II
By Lynn Shaler
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a rare example of Shaler's early work. This piece was exhibited in Associated American Artists' exhibition on the Prints of New York City...
Category
1980s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Les Arcades, Dieppe France (the arches along coastline of a town in Normandy)
By Stanley Anderson
Located in New Orleans, LA
The image show a panoramic view of the architectural arches and the boats in the harbor of Dieppe in Normandy France. Dieppe was occupied by German naval and army forces after the f...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Mexican Orchestra (joy of the people is captured in this celebratory festival)
By George Overbury Hart
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Mexican Orchestra" is one of the George Overbury Hart's largest pieces. It is #14 from a limited edition of 50. The image captures a festive event with hanging lanterns, an orches...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Spectre (an otherworldly landscape with trees and mountains under a dappled sky)
By Nicola Lopez
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lopez created her haunting landscape in an edition of 95 at Tamarind Institute. It is a four color-lithograph on white Revere silk paper. Collaborating Printer: Valpuri Remling.
"O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Prickles and Hairs
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is impression #12 from an edition of 45
Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more ....
Category
Early 2000s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
To the Sea
By Jack Coughlin 1
Located in New Orleans, LA
Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, Jack Coughlin studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and the Art Students League of New York. He is b...
Category
1960s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Surf I
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shades of blacks and grays to suggest the power of the surf. Christine Ravaux is a Belgian artist who uses nature in much of her work which is both hyper-realistic and abstract in p...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Carpe Diem I
By Mikio Watanabe
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 Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Puerta del Obispo ( Romanesque Spanish Cathedral)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is by America's greatest etcher, John Taylor Arms. The Spanish cathedral in Zamora is an impressive example of Romanesque architecture located on the hilltop by the river ...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Dark House
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...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
