#etchings

[thefugitivesaint]

Vitali, 'Chasseur nocturne' (Night Hunter'), 2023 Source

[bad-moodboard]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Sabbath Resurrection - art by Leonor Fini (1957)

[arteryvein]

And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.

[kobzars]

Over the years, Kulchytska has created many artistic works in which she vividly reproduced the characteristic thoughts and dreams of people.

In her engravings, etchings, watercolors and drawings, we can see images of folk heroes, drawings of Ukrainian life and customs, unique images of folk costumes, elements of rural architecture and unforgettable landscapes of her native land.

[uwmspeccoll]

Old Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, 1900

Wisconsin architect and printmaker Charles Clark Reynolds (1893-1969) produced this etching of the Door County port city of Sturgeon Bay for the Federal Art Project of the WPA in 1941. Reynolds, who was born in Sturgeon Bay, ran a successful architectural firm with offices in Manitowoc and Green Bay, Wisconsin from 1920-1934. Andrew Stevens, curator emeritus of prints, drawings and photographs at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, made these observations about another copy of the print at the Wisconsin Historical Society in his 1998 exhibition catalog, 150 Years of Wisconsin Printmaking:

The print's title and the notation on the plate that identifies the image as being "Sturgeon Bay 1900" suggest a nostalgic purpose for the work. Instead of presenting the city as it was when the print was made in 1941, he looked back forty years, perhaps by reference to photography, to present if at the turn of the century [as Reynolds himself would have known it as a boy]. As if to reference further the retrospective stance of the work, there is a pencil notation in the print's margin that identifies it as having been printed on antique paper. This retrospective aspect of the work . . . may also reflect some of the historical goals of other projects of the WPA.

Our copy of the print is part of a portfolio of prints from the Wisconsin WPA, and this image is from a digitized version of that print from our digital collection Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA, which was made possible with generous financial support from The Chipstone Foundation.

View other posts on prints by Charles Reynolds.

View more posts from our Wisconsin Arts Projects digital collection.

[cainhowlett]

The longer you pursue art, the more time you spend trading art with peers and some years back I traded with Neva Hosking, who is so talented. These are a pair of plaster etchings, they are some of my favorite things to just stare at and get lost in them.

[conformi]

Ancient Theatre, Epidaurus, Greece, 4th century BC VS Giorgio Morandi, Shell and other objects, 1948

[2001hz]

Anish Kapoor: 'Moiré' (2015)

[internationalemeteorologie]

Renato Guttuso

Omaggio a Ingres. undated

[thefugitivesaint]

Harrison Weir (1824-1906), ''The Children's Picture Fable-Book'', 1861 Source

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

💌 💐 The Love Letter, c. 1770 -Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806).

[transistoradio]

Four etchings by Michael Ayrton (1921-1975): 1) “Minotaur Revealed” (1971), 2) “Minotaur Pent” (1971), 3) “Minotaur Full Grown” (1971), and 4) “Minotaur Risen” (1971).

[arteryvein]

This was an excuse to draw gore in August

[kobzars]

In 2024, our team decided to focus on Ukrainian graphics. There are many publications with masterpiece graphic works ahead. Some of them are for sale

[uwmspeccoll]

Shakespeare Weekend!

On the tail of our Limited Edition Club thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare series, we are delving back into our Shakespeare Collection to explore Nicholas Rowe’s (1674-1718) The Work of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. Published in London in 1709 by Jacob Tonson, this second edition holds an important place within Shakespearean publication history. The Work of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes is recognized as the first octavo edition, the first illustrated edition, the first critically-edited edition, and the first to present a biography of the poet.  

Rowe, having been a dramatist and poet himself, was able to divide the plays into scenes and include notes on the entrances and exits of the players. He also normalised the spelling of names and included a dramatis personae preceding each play. The only chronicled critique of Rowe’s momentous editorial endeavor is his choice in basing his text on the corrupt Fourth Folio.  

This week, we present you with the first volume of The Work of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. It includes The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, and Love’s Labour’s Lost. A full-page engraving precedes each play with an additional frontispiece engraving of the Stratford monument. The illustrations are by the French Baroque artist and book illustrator François Boitard (1670-1715).

View more Shakespeare Weekend posts.

-- Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern