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Original etching by member of the New York Etching Club, Samuel Coleman. (1832-1920).
Image size 5x 8 inches. Printed on warm wove paper, signed on plate with monogram, lower left. Collection stamp of Mrs. J. Morgan Slade (of Madison Avenue 1903 - NY Times) on reverse. Includes archival study mat. In excellent condition with full margins.
Samuel Coleman March 4, 1832 � March 26, 1920 was an American painter probably best remembered for his paintings of the Hudson River.
The New York Etching Club was the first professional organization in America devoted to the medium of etching. Its founders were inspired by the Etching Revival
that had blossomed in France and England in the middle 19th century.
The purpose of the club was to create and promote etchings that did not
merely reproduce existing paintings, but were original creations of art
in their own right.
The New York Etching Club held regular exhibitions through the early
1890s in which members and invited guests displayed their etchings for
sale to the general public. From 1879 to 1881, works by members of the
New York Etching Club were also featured in a periodical called "The
American Art Review"
(Etching is the process of using strong acid to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal . As an intaglio method of printmaking it is, along with engraving, the most important technique for old master prints, and remains widely used today) |
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