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Tue 08 Jul 2008 09:30:28 AM PDTArtist brochures are a free PDF download. We currently have brochures available for Peter Jogo, Frederick Mershimer, Joop Vegter, Carol Wax, and Art Werger.
C. F. W. Mielatz
Wed 21 May 2008 03:51:20 PM PDT(American, 1860-1919)
Born in Breddin, Germany, Mielatz was both an etcher and teacher. He received his early art training at the Chicago School of Design. He began to etch in 1883 and exhibited for the first time at the New York Etching Club in 1884. He endlessly experimented in all aspects of the intaglio media. Mielatz was elected an Associate in the National Academy of Design and succeeded James Smillie as instructor in etching at the Academy serving in that position for 15 years.
He was the first major American artist to portray the beauty and excitement of New York City on the copper plate. His etchings particularly of wet street surfaces proved to be an influence on the later work of Martin Lewis.
Caroline Durieux
Wed 14 May 2008 02:06:28 PM PDT (American, 1896-1989)
Caroline Durieux was born in New Orleans in 1896 and was already making sketches by the age of four. Durieux's formal art training was at Newcomb College (1912-1917) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1918-1920). It was Carl Zigrosser of the Philadelphia Museum who initially encouraged Durieux to try lithography. While living in Mexico, Caroline worked with Diego Rivera and the other Mexican masters. Durieux joined the art faculty at Newcomb College and taught from 1938-43. She also served as the Director for Louisiana's WPA Art Project during that same period. Her lithographs of the thirties and forties rank as some of the finest satirical pieces ever made.
In 1943, Durieux left New Orleans to teach at Louisiana State University where in the early 50's she began her experimental work on electron printmaking, demonstrating the peaceful use of atomic technology. She also successfully produced the first color cliché verres while simultaneously perfecting her technique for making electron prints.
Carol Wax
Wed 28 May 2008 05:05:54 PM PDT(American, born 1953)
In compositions reflecting an appreciation for finely crafted utilitarian objects and beautiful machines, Carol Wax creates an imagery that investigates, in her own words, "the influence of light and shadow on perceptions of form and depth." She energizes these nostalgic icons of our past with new life, making an ordinary typewriter seem monumental and an unplugged old fan virtually vibrate. Her sewing machines emblazoned with elegant hieroglyphs, speak of some lost sensibility while her accordions radiate with the rhythms of a Cajun dance hall on a Louisiana bayou.
Honored with the 1994 Louise Nevelson award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Wax was recognized as an innovator of the mezzotint. Her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams in 1990 has become the definitive work on this difficult medium.
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Charles Locke
Wed 21 May 2008 03:51:26 PM PDT (American, 1899-1993)
Locke was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied at the Ohio Mechanics Institute, the Cincinnati Art Academy, and later at the Art Students League of New York with Joseph Pennell. He later travelled to Europe and studied in Paris in 1928.
Both a painter and a printmaker, Locke taught at the Arts Students League in the mid thirties. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Design. He has received awards from the Tiffany Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Logan Prize of the Art Institute of Chicago.
His work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Corcoran Gallery and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC
Craig McPherson
Wed 21 May 2008 03:51:35 PM PDT (American, b. 1948)
Craig McPherson was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1948. After receiving his BFA from the University of Kansas in 1970, he worked as a curator and lecturer for the National Endowment for the Arts, before moving to New York in 1975.
In 1983, McPherson had his first one-man exhibition in New York. McPherson next devoted his energies to printmaking, producing mezzotints of New York City at night. These prints led to a corporate art commission for the American Express Company for a 90-foot mural cycle for the auditorium of their corporate headquarters at the World Financial Center (WFC). In January 1987, the Harbors of the World mural cycle was initiated by American Express for the lobby of their New York WFC headquarters. This vast undertaking involved ten paintings 365 feet long by 11 feet high. The murals depict the harbor cities -- New York, Venice, Istanbul, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro and Hong Kong.
McPherson's works are in numerous museums and private commections.
Earl Horter
Wed 21 May 2008 03:51:40 PM PDT(American, 1881 - 1940)
A highly regarded American etcher, painter and illustrator of the early 20th century, Horter was known throughout the United States for his fine architectural views and city scenes. During his career, Horter etched memorable views of almost all the major American cities (including New Orleans) as well as some European scenes in Spain and France. Although he signed his original etchings he did not usually number them. Most, however, were published in editions of one hundred or less.
Earl Horter was also a major collector of early 20th century modern art. He was a close friend of Philadelphia's Dr. Albert Barnes (1872-1951), one of America's great collectors of modern art and the founder of the Barnes Foundation. Horter's collection included contemporary paintings and sculptors by Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp and many others and was recently the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Horter was a full member of the American Society of Illustrators (1910) and the Brooklyn Society of Etchers. Some of the major awards he received include the 1915 Silver Medal from the Pan Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, and the International Water Color Award, Chicago.
Francisco Souto
Wed 28 May 2008 05:06:11 PM PDT(Venezuelan, b. 1973)
Francisco Souto was born in Venezuela, and received his BFA from the Herron School of Art in 2000, and his MFA from the Ohio State University in 2002. His prints and artist books have been widely exhibited, including: the 5th British International Miniature Print Exhibition, Dumfries, UK; 12th International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria; the Boston Printmakers 2003 North American Print Exhibition; 17th University of Dallas National Print Invitational; Hand-pulled Prints IX, Stonemetal Press, San Antonio, Texas. He has taught workshops at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado, and at the Universidad de los Andes, MŽrida, Venezuela, and was a visiting artist at the Columbus College of Art and Design. His work is in many corporate and private collections and in the permanent collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, and the University of Dallas. He recently joined the printmaking program as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Frank Martin
Wed 21 May 2008 03:51:44 PM PDT(British, 1921-2005)
A confident draughtsman, using strong shapes and swaggering lines full of movement, Martin's images are straightforward, clear and affectionate He served as secretary to the Society of Wood Engravers, through which he met the artist John Buckland-Wright, who found him a post at Camberwell School of Art, where he was to teach for 27 years. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1965, and was head of graphic design from 1976 through his retirement.
His mother was an actress and this may have lead to a long series of prints of Hollywood actresses of the silent movie era. Martin, who continued working into his eighties, was an honorary academician of the Royal Academy and a member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence.
Frank Short
Wed 28 May 2008 05:06:22 PM PDT(British, 1857-1945)
Sir Frank Short was born in Worcestershire in west central England. The only son of an engineer, he was trained in that profession and practiced for a short period. In 1883, he entered the Royal College of Art, eventually becoming an instructor of etching and head professor of that institution's first engraving school. He was a widely respected teacher who has had a far ranging impact on the direction of English etching and engraving throughout the 20th Century. He was elected President of the Society of Painter-Etchers in 1910 and served in that capacity until 1938. He was also selected as an academician of the Royal Academy of Art and served as its treasurer from 1919 to 1932.
Short was responsible for the revival of the mezzotint process in England, usually working his plates direct from nature. On the encouragement of John Ruskin, Short made many mezzotints after the paintings of Turner and other notable painters. However, it is his own original compositions in the medium, often featuring watery foregrounds, that count among the true masterpieces of English printmaking. His usually dramatic compositions consistently reflect the simplicity of the etched work of Rembrandt and Whistler; and his interpretation of light through the mezzotint process has seldom been matched.
