Dear Mrs. Roberts,
Thank
you for email of Monday, November 2. You seemed to be having trouble locating
sources to aid your writing about the print revival, specifically the American
and British facets, if I remember correctly. I have spent this week searching
for sources which I believe you will find quite useful. I chose some general
‘antique print’ websites, as well as some particularly good exhibition records
or catalogs to cover a broader range for your work. As you may know, this
University offers a PhD in the field of Art History, so we subscribe to a wide
variety of academic art journals which you may find helpful in addition to what
I have included. I have added brief descriptions of each resource so that you
may better determine which will supply the most beneficial information. I hope
you find this useful, please do not hesitate to contact me again should you
have further questions.
Thank You,
Chandler E.
Parker
Art
Librarian, XYZ University
This
resource is the second phase of a project by the New York Art Resources
Consortium called Documenting the Gilded
Age: New York City Exhibitions at the Turn of the 20th Century. It
is helpful for the brief overview of the etching revival, and its players in
the New York Scene, but its most useful features are the wide range of
hyperlinks it offers that will take you to various collections and offer
high-resolution digital images of many of these etchings and prints. The
materials focus on the years between 1875 and 1922, and the records included in
the exhibition detail ninety-seven different galleries, clubs, and associations
represented on the New York art scene. There are also five additional sources
to be found at the bottom of the first page, several of which you may find
useful.
This is a
review of an exhibition held at Georgetown College two years ago entitled American Women and the Etching Revival: Works on Paper from the Payne
Collection. It gives a brief overview of the
exhibition, its contents and its features, as well as describing several key
works on display. Georgetown College’s archive may have a digitized exhibition
catalogue upon request. If you wish to pursue this source further, you can
contact Sandy Baird, who is the archives and special collections manager at
Georgetown College. I have included her school contact information below.
Sandy Baird – Archives and Special Collection Manager, Georgetown
University
sandra_baird@georgetowncollege.edu
(502)
863-8410 – office phone
This is Neil
Philip’s blog, Adventures in the Print Trade. This specific post concerns
Robert Swain Gifford and the New York Etching Club, which was founded in May
1877. Philips’ blog in its entirety is a source worth exploring, but I thought
this post in particular would offer some excellent background into the origins
of this New York organization so heavily involved in the American etching
revival.
Print
Quarterly is a journal which covers the history of prints and printmaking from
its inception, through the present day. It is a subscription-based scholarly
journal, however this University holds a subscription. A wonderful aspect of
their website, however, is that one can click on a particular issue (1-32) and
obtain a list of what appeared in that particular issue, including notes and
catalogue and book reviews.
Drawings and
Prints offers “One of the world’s largest stocks of original prints and
drawings from the late fifteenth through the mid-twentieth century”. Here you
will find a wealth of information on different artists and styles, as well as
old catalogues, past and current exhibitions, and a large number of high quality
images of hundreds of prints from the last several centuries.
This is the
Met’s biographical page on James McNeill Whistler, who was an influential
printmaker in London, as well as being a well-respected painter. You can also
find on this page a PDF download of a piece by Nancy Dorfman Pressly from the
Paul Mellon Center for British Art and British Studies entitled, Whistler in
America: An Album of Early Drawings. It is also worth your time to browse
around the Met’s website, as they have a huge number of prints from the Etching
Revival, and a lot of other information available that may aid you in your
writing.
The American
Historical Print Collectors Society was founded in 1975, based out of
Farmingdale, New York. They are a non-profit group who encourages the study,
collection, and preservation of American prints that are 100 years old or more.
They publish a scholarly journal called Imprint twice each year, of
which issues can be purchased for a relatively cheap price. The Society also
maintains several blogs concerning specific artists or time periods for
American prints.
This website
is a company that specializing in appraising and selling antique, rare, and
decorative prints and maps. They also host several blogs concerning artists or
periods in printing history. Derek and Katheryn Nicholls have over thirty years
of experience in this field, and they are constantly adding new works for sale.
The valuation of the particular prints from the etching revival may be of some
use to you here, also which artists are in the highest demand from that period,
and what subject matters are the most popular amongst buyers of these prints.
The American
Printing History Association is a membership group which encourages the study
of the history of printing. They publish a semi-annual journal entitled Printing
History, which can be ordered online for a fee. The Association’s website
also contains several useful research guides, such as a timeline for the
history of printing, the North American Handpress Database, and a list of
printer’ and publishers’ marks.
This sale catalogue
entitled The Etching Revival in Britain 1850-1950 by Wolseley Fine Arts may
prove to be a tremendous reference resource for you, as it is setup one artist
at a time, with their included works following. Each listed work also includes
a price (in £) and where it was originally published or printed, and where the signature
appears if it is signed.
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