Etchings

Soho Alley

Etching and drypoint, image size 4 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches, 1912, printed on cream wove paper. Addams was born in New Jersey and attended the Drexel Institute there. He won a Philadelphia Academy Cresson Traveling Scholarship and entered Whistler’s Academy in Paris in 1899. In the 1900′s, London’s working class Italian Soho district was the subject of many artists of the day including Whistler's shop-front prints such as T.A. Nash’s Fruit Shop. The horizontal format and the density of the etching work is comparable to many of Whistler Amsterdam prints.

Destroyers in Wet Basin at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company

A superb original etching by John Taylor Arms, this image measures 10 x 17 1/4 inches, published in 1943, state III/III, cat: Fletcher- 377, U.S. Navy Series #2, pencil signed and dated. This image shows the ships U.S.S. Radford, Quick, and Mervine at the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, South Kearney NJ. John Taylor Arms was an extremely talented and successful artist in the early 20th century, known especially for his exquisite renderings of French cathedrals and other European architecture.

Highwater on the Ohio

This 1939 etching by American printmaker, Douglas Gorsline measures 10 x 8 inches and is pencil signed, dated and titled on the lower margin. Gorsline attended the Yale School of Art and the Art Students League of NY and taught at the National Academy of Design. He was the first American artist to be invited to China. His work is in several musuems and private collections.

The Donner Summit

This is a beautiful original landscape by American artist Roi Partridge. Etching, image size is 8 3/4 x 11 5/8 inches, published in 1950 in an edition of 154 for the Society of Print Connoisseurs, pencil signed. This etching appears to be an early proof apart from the published edition, as there is no blindstamp from the Society of Print Connoisseurs.

English Bay

Etching by the American artist Levon West measuring 8 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches, 1927, pencil signed, titled and numbered 70/100, printed by West. Levon West was a watercolorist, printmaker and photographer, studying at the Art Students' League and then with Joseph Pennell. A great admirer of Whistler, West created his own "Venice Set" in 1931, along with a series of five etchings of native life in Hudson Bay. His works are on display in the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many others.

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