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    The Etching Revival

    The Etching Revival: Its French Sources and American Legacy
    August 13 – September 29
    Campus Gallery

    The Rainbow, 1880. Etching on laid paper, Thomas Moran. The Rona and Martin Schneider Collection of Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Fine Art Prints.

    Curatorial Text:

    In the mid-nineteenth century, French artists began exploring the creative potential of etching, a medium previously used to reproduce paintings for publication. Spurred in part by their European counterparts, late nineteenth-century American artists began to explore the medium’s possibilities. French and American etchers both drew inspiration from the French Barbizon school, who rejected conservative traditions and formal subjects, instead painting pastoral landscapes using soft colors and loose brushwork. American etchers also looked to the Hudson River School, who painted the nation’s wild landscape in grand scale, hoping to impart a sense of awe. The American prints of this period feature many subjects favored in France, but filled with turbulent skies, deep shadows, and energetic lines common in American paintings of the time.

    By the early 20th century, landscapes in art were increasingly focused on growing cities and the mechanization and isolation these urban centers brought. In the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, pastoral scenes were imbued with nostalgia. A few American artists returned to rural subjects in prints and paintings. In many of these, the energy of line apparent in the first prints of the American etching revival had taken precedent over the landscape. These stylized and nostalgic rural images of the 1930s now define the Regionalist style, most associated with artists Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood.

    Artists of the American etching revival paved the way for a twentieth-century reinterpretation of the national landscape through their focus on expressive line, striking contrasts of light and shadow, intrepid rural workers, and a quickly-industrializing nation.

    The Etching Revival: its French Sources and American Legacy  is organized by SUArt Galleries, Syracuse, New York

    Related Events:

    Reception for Fall 2019
    Thursday, September 26, 7 p.m.
    Campus Gallery, Top Floor, Elaine Langone Center 

    The Samek Art Museum will launch the Fall 2019 semester with an opening reception in honor of our latest exhibitionsThe Etching Revival: Its French Sources and American Legacyand Damaged Goods: The Punk Aesthetic.

    Exhibited Work:

    Adolphe Appian
    French 1818-1898
    Les Sources e l’Albarine, 1870
    Etching on Japanese paper
    SUAC 2017.0327

    Stephen Parrish
    American 1846-1938
    November, 1880
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0205

    Robert Swain Gifford
    American 1840-1905
    The First Plate Etched by the New York Etchers Club, 1877
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2018.0006.001

    Stephen Parrish
    American 1856-1938
    Venice, circa 1890
    Etching on wove paper
    SUAC 2017.0626

    Otto Bacher
    American 1856-1909
    Laguna Venita, 1880
    Etching on chine collé
    SUAC 2017.0572

    Samuel Colman
    American 1832-1920
    A Cloudy Day in Venice, 1880
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0046

    Otto Bacher
    American 1856-1909
    Fondamenta dei Tolentini, 1880
    Etching on chine collé
    SUAC 2017.0488

    Frank Duveneck
    American 1848-1919
    Riva Degli Schiavoni, Venice, No. 1, 1881
    Etching on chine collé
    SUAC 2017.0416

    Joseph Pennell
    American 1857-1926
    Ponte Vecchio, 1883
    Etching on wove paper
    SUAC 2017.0150

    Robert Swain Gifford
    American 1840-1905
    The Belfry at Bruges, 1882
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0091

    George Loring Brown
    American 1814-1889
    View of the Road Leading to Castello Gandolfo Near Abano, 1860
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0575

    Frank Duveneck
    American 1848-1919
    View of the Grand Canal, 1883
    Etching and drypoint on Japan vellum paper
    SUAC 2017.0417

    John Leon Moran
    American 1864-1941
    A Japanese Fantasy, 1884
    Etching on chine collé wove paper
    SUAC 2017.0111

    Robert Swain Gifford
    American 1840-1905
    Japanese Inro and Netsukes, 1883
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0606

    Charles Frederick William Mielatz
    American 1864-1919
    Restaurant in Chinatown, 1906
    Etching on fine Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0452

    Charles Frederick William Mielatz
    American 1864-1919
    The Golden Door, Transportation Building, 1893
    Etching on thin Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0266

    Joseph Pennell
    American 1857-1926
    Wren’s City, 1909
    Mezzotint on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0587

    Francis Seymour Haden
    English 1818-1910
    Marshes Opposite Erith, 1865
    Etching on Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0378

    Julian Alden Weir
    American 1852-1919
    Harbor – Isle of Man, 1889
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0544

    David Young Cameron
    Scottish 1865-1945
    The Vale of Clyde, 1898
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0527

    Samuel Colman
    American 1832-1920
    The Washerwoman, 1877
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0248

    John Mackie Falconer
    American 1820-1903
    Washing-Morning “Down South,”1882
    Etching on wove paper
    SUAC 2017.0469

    Henry Farrer
    American 1843-1903
    Old House, corner of Peck Slip & Water Street, 1870
    from Scenes of Old New York
    Etching on japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0563

    Edith Loring Pierce Getchell
    American 1855-1940
    The Overflow, 1883
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0440

    Thomas Moran
    American 1837-1926
    Sunrise, The Pond, East Hampton, L.I., 1880
    Etching on satin
    SUAC 2017.0594

    Charles Adam Platt
    American 1861-1933
    Cape Ann Willows, 1887
    Drypoint on Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0161

    Edith Loring Pierce Getchell
    American 1855-1940
    untitled [twilight skyline, possibly behind the sand dunes, or Sewell’s point], 1884
    Etching on Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0442

    Robert Swain Gifford 
    American 1840-1905
    The Mouth of the Apponagansett, 1883
    Etching on Japanese laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0602

    Albert F. Bellows
    American 1829-1883
    Mill Pond at Windsor, Connecticut, 1879
    Etching on thin laid Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0399

    Mary Nimmo Moran
    American 1842-1899
    Between the Gloaming and the Mirk, 1883
    Etching, roulette and scotch stone on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0599

    Edmund Henry Garrett
    American 1853-1929
    Squibnocket Beach, Sand Dunes, 1880
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0362

    Leroy Milton Yale
    American 1841-1906
    Old Bridge Near Newburyport, 1883
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0312

    Albion Harris Bicknell
    American 1837-1915
    untitled, circa 1880
    Etching on paper
    SUAC 2017.0507

    Thomas Hart Benton
    American 1889-1975
    Rainy Day, 1938
    Lithograph on paper
    SUAC 1968.119

    Peter Moran
    American 1841-1914
    The Pool, 1884
    Etching on paper
    SUAC 2017.0130

    Thomas Hart Benton
    American 1889-1975
    Sunset, 1941
    Lithograph on paper
    SUAC 1968.023

    Stephen Parrish
    American 1846-1938
    Twilight – Low Tide, 1887-1890
    published 1891
    Etching on Japanese wove paper
    SUAC 2017.0009

    Charles Adam Platt
    American 1861-1933
    Hartford Bridge, 1885
    Etching on thin wove Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0603

    James Craig Nicoll
    American 1846-1918
    Building an Elevator, 1881
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0138

    Joseph Pennell
    American 1857-1926
    The Bridge, 1923
    Etching on Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0589

    James Craig Nicoll
    American 1846-1918
    Harbor by Moonlight, 1885
    Etching on Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0600

    Samuel Colman
    American 1832-1920
    December, 1877
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0739

    James David Smillie
    American 1833-1909
    A Bit on Marblehead Neck, 1883
    Etching on heavy wove paper
    SUAC 2017.0174

    Eliza Pratt Greatorex
    American 1820-1897
    The Pond at Cernay-la-Ville, 1880
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0396

    Joseph Foxcroft Cole
    American 1837-1892
    A Village Street in France, 1866
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0397

    Mary Nimmo Moran
    American 1842-1899
    Point Isabel, Coast of Florida, 1887
    Etching on simili Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0597

    Peter Moran
    American 1841-1914
    The Edge of the Swamp, 1886
    after a painting by W. L. Picknell
    Etching on Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0121

    Stephen Parrish
    American 1846-1938
    A Showery Day St. Augustine, 1884
    Etching on simili Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0200

    Hendrik-Dirk Kruseman Van Elten
    American 1829-1904
    View of a River, circa 1885
    Etching on Japan laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0418

    Robert Swain Gifford
    American 1840-1905
    Near the Coast, 1886
    after a painting by R. Swain Gifford
    Etching on laid Japan paper
    SUAC 2017.0184

    James David Smillie
    American 1833-1909
    Cedars by Moonlight, 1878
    Etching on wove paper
    SUAC 2017.0099

    Thomas Moran
    American 1837-1926
    The Rainbow, 1880
    Etching on laid paper
    SUAC 2017.0114

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