THE ETCHING REVIVAL
France, Britain, America and Zorn
France, Britain, America and Zorn
- Jacque, Rembrandt, Etching
- Jacque, Le Chemin de Halage
- Daubigny, Le Grand Parc
- Lalanne, Richmond
- Meryon, Greniers Indigènes
- Bracquemond, Le Corbeau
- Buhot, Débarquement
- Lepère, La Route de Saint Gilles
- Legros, Le Triomphe de la Mort
- Besnard, La Mère Malade
- Leheutre, Notre-Dame de Chartres
- Legrand, Devant Sa Glace
- Brouet, Coin de Campagne
- Beaufrère, Bords de la Laïta
- Frélaut, Allée de Village
- Forain, L’Avocat Parlant
- Laboureur, Vue du Chateau
- Haden, Mytton Hall
- Whistler, Black Lion Wharf
- Strang, Eel Fishing in a Cave
- Cameron, Ben Lomond
- Bone, Culross Roofs
- McBey, Palestine: Blue Bonnets
- John, Head of Granger
- Blampied, Blessing the Waters
- Lumsden, Cliff and Cactus
- Lee-Hankey, Le Repas
- Osborne, Zierikzee
- Simpson, James Pryde
- Rushbury, On the Waveny
- Detmold, The Cock
- Brockhurst, Phemie (Marguerite)
- Nicolson, Quiet Hour
- Moran, Landscape on the Marne
- Moran, The Rapids Above
- Moran, Scrub Oaks
- Parrish, Winter in Trenton
- Platt, Deventer, Holland
- Mielatz, The Old Bridge
- Pennell, The Shot Tower, London
- Benson, Yellowlegs at Dusk
- Hassam, Madonna of the North
- Sloan, Girls Sliding
- Winkler, North End
- Arms, Stokesay Castle
- MacLaughlan, Bernese Oberland
- Friedlander, Downtown
- Eby, North Country
- Marsh, Coney Island Beach
- Zorn, Pilot – Lots
- Zorn, Portrait of Ernest Renan
Girls Sliding
Etching, 1915, 107 x 149 mm., Morse 171 iv/iv. Very fine, early impression, with areas of tone and wiping, on laid paper with full margins (two deckle edges), signed in pencil, titled and annotated “100 proofs.” There is an additional inscription below, “1915 – O.B.” and the original price: $15. The scene is Washington Square Park, New York City, in the winter. With Sloan and the other Ashcan artists, a specifically American urban realism enters the tradition of the Etching Revival. The focus, like that of Brouet, is on the people, secondarily on the place, but these are not the colorful outer edges of society portrayed for sophisticated collectors, but the same people we run across in the subway, on the streets, in the parks, our friends, our neighbors, ourselves. Sloan, probably before any other American etcher, brought it all home.