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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Joseph Leboit
Joseph Leboit’s work is a spectrum of observation of the human condition, one end being that of the happiness found in daily human activity; the other searching out the darkness hidden from view. Born in New York City in 1907, … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Discoveries, Social Commentary, WPA
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A Glimpse into Gustave Baumann’s Ephemera
Gustave Baumann’s name is synonymous with color woodcut. He produced almost two hundred color woodcuts during a career spanning eight decades. Baumann’s masterful techniques evolved over the decades but his roots, his beginnings, were in the commercial art field. The … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Crafts, Biography, Color Woodcut, Discoveries
Tagged ephemera, Gustave Baumann, Heart of Trade, Indianapolis, Palette and Chisel Club
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William E. Hentschel (1892 – 1962): Rookwood designer, Printmaker
This is a quick blog about a printmaker who developed two separate stencil printmaking techniques and had a career as a designer with Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, Ohio. William Ernst Hentschel was born in New York on June 16, 1892. … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Discoveries
Tagged Aquatone, Cincinnati, Deco, fine prints, printmaker, Rookwood, stencil
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Gustave Baumann’s Color Woodcuts
The Annex Galleries is the representative of the Gustave Baumann estate. For the past 14 years, gallery director and co-owner Gala Chamberlain has been working on the catalogue raisonné of Baumann’s color woodcuts. She has gathered information on his early … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Crafts, Biography, Color Woodcut, Exhibition
Tagged arts & crafts, Brown County, color woodcut, Indiana, Nashville, Santa Fe, Taos
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Art Hazelwood: The Art of Politics/The Politics of Art
San Francisco based artist Art Hazelwood is a tour de force in the modern American printmaking world. Inspired by political upheaval both local and national, mythology, and his world travels, Hazelwood’s work relays an unbending, unblinking, unforgiving, and beautiful tribute … Continue reading
James D. Smillie, 1833 – 1909: A lifetime of engraving
Today’s blog features a member of the 19th century’s most famous family of etchers, James David Smillie. James David Smillie first earned his reputation as an etcher, but later became equally well known for his landscape watercolors. He began etching … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Discoveries, Exhibition, Uncategorized
Tagged drypoint, engraving, etching, ex-libris, floral, hollyhocks, Marblehead, mezzotint, Morgan, pansies, Yosemite
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Sutro Baths (San Francisco): A four panel lithograph, 1886
This blog is regarding another unusual work in inventory that is too large to exhibit but is a remarkable artistic and historic work. This large, four panel lithograph was done by an anonymous artist for the San Francisco businessman and … Continue reading
Posted in Discoveries, Uncategorized
Tagged baths, color lithograph, drawings, historical, lithograph, Poster, San Francisco, Sutro
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Henry Wolf, Master Wood-engraver: 1852 – 1916
Wood-engraving reached its height in mid-nineteenth century America; it was utilized as an inexpensive method of reproducing drawings, and even paintings, in periodicals – the most noted probably being Winslow Homer’s work in Harpers Weekly. Many American wood-engravers (notably Linton, … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Discoveries, Exhibition
Tagged Panama Pacific Exposition, wood engraving, woodengraving
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Abe Rattner and Esther Gentle: A collaborative work
Part of the reason for starting this blog is to talk a little about works in the gallery that are unusual or pique our curiosity beyond the norm, and this is the first in a number of such works I … Continue reading
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Margaret Kidder
Margaret Kidder (American/CA: 1904 – 1959) was a painter and printmaker, who produced a small but delicately complex body of work in a her short life. At a time when women artists rarely departed from the safe and accepted forms … Continue reading →