Fine Prints,Van Abbe, Albee, Arms, Benson, Ruth Chaney, Morgan Dennis, Philip Kappel

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1	Solomon van Abbe	Dutch-British	4
	Moving to England from Holland when five years old, van Abbe, became a naturalized citizen. He studied art at the People's Palace, Bolt Court, Toynbee Hall, and later at the Central London School of Art. After working on the art staff of a newspaper he decided to do illustrations for authors such as H.G. Wells and John Galsworthy. However, his greatest skill was displayed in the drypoint medium, because of an uncanny ability to understand human behavior and depict it on paper. His skillful eye possessed a sense of satire and humor in the presentation of legal prints and British middle-class behavior during the early part of the twentieth century. Guichard, Kenneth M., British Etchers, 1850-1940, London, 1981. Bender, J.H. "The Drypoints of S. van Abbe," Print Collector's Quarterly, vol.26, 1939, pp.293-309.
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2	Grace Albee	American	5
	Born in Rhode Island, Albee, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and in Paris.She took up wood engraving in 1928 as a relief from life's tensions, recording rural subject matter,urban changes, landscapes, and various themes from nature. Working in the realistic manner, her detailed use of the graver on the wood block produced fineline work reminiscent of the Old Masters. Her work was of such consistency and quality it guaranteed her election to the National Academy. Her prints are represented in museums throughout the United States with large holdings in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Georgetown University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Johnson, Una E., American Prints and Printmakers, New York, 1980, p.36. Reese, Albert, American Prize Prints of the 20th Century, New York, 1949, p.2. Denker, Eric, Grace Albee: An American Printmaker,1890-1985, National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibition brochure, Washington, D.C., 1999.
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102	Frank M. Armington	Canadian	1
	Armington was born in Fordwich, Ontario, Canada in 1876. He studied art at the Julian Academy in Paris. A great deal of his work was accomplished, while in Paris and the surrounding areas. He and his wife, Caroline, also an artist, showed their etchings and paintings in major French and American exhibitions. Armington was able to bring light, shadow, and line into his etchings to produce fine impressions on paper.
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3	John Taylor Arms	American	6
	Born in Washington, D.C., Arms, studied at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His sureness of hand and microscopic vision assured him a place as one of the foremost architectural etchers in the world. Impressed with Gothic architecture he etched many of the cathedrals, gables, and gargoyles, throughout his travels in Europe. His total output contained approximately 444 prints with hundreds and even thousands of hours spent on some plates. The exquisite line work in his etchings was enhanced, by using sewing needles, thus defining the detail in the shadows and lighting, projected on stone and water. His superb quality of draftsmanship caused the editor of The Print Collector's Quarterly, Fitzroy Carrington, to state, "For God's sake, John, don't you ever make a mistake, get drunk or something!" Arms, also built a wonderful collection of graphic arts which encompassed thousands of images. He was considered the leading spokesman and advocate in the promotion of American graphic arts. Bassham, Ben L., John Taylor Arms: American Etcher, Madison, Wisconsin, 1925. Crafton Collection, American Etchers, Vol.5, John Taylor Arms, Philadelphia, 1930. Fletcher, William Dolan, John Taylor Arms: A Man For All Time, New Haven, 1982. Johnson, Una E., American Prints and Printmakers, New York, 1980, p.36. Saville, Jennifer, John Taylor Arms: Plates of Perfect Beauty, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1905. Zigrosser, Carl, The Artist in America, New York, 1942, p.29.
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4	Peggy Bacon	American	1

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6	Albert W. Barker	American	1
	Barker was born in Chicago and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Haverford College, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology. In 1927, he studied lithography with Bolton Brown and decided to devote the remainder of his years, creating and drawing his images on stone. A master of shading, lighting, and texture, he used the crayon to show various aspects of nature, changing skies, and landscape, which surrounded his eighteen acre Pennsylvania home. Barker is noted as one of the great poetic lithographers, showing great respect for his medium, while displaying flawless technique and craftsmanship in his aesthetic renditions on stone. His prints are represented in some thirty museums. Adams, Clinton, American Lithographers, 1900-1960, Albuquerque, 1983, p.64. Kraeft, June and Norman, Great American Prints, 1900-1950, New York, p.139. Reese, Albert, American Prize Prints of the 20th Century, New York, 1949, p.11. Whitmore, Elizabeth, "Albert W. Barker: Poet and Lithographer," Print Collector's Quarterly, vol.27, 1940, pp.274-299.
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103	Will Barnet	American	1
	Barnet was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1911 and studied art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Art Students League, NYC. He began his career as a graphic artist by working on a Public Works of Art Project which led to more work as a professional lithographic printer. Barnet is proficient in the field of etching, lithography, and woodcut making. His early work shows strong feeling for the working class and the unfortunate poor in America. These prints contain strong contrast and vivid patterns of action. Art critics have compared Barnet's work to those of the German Expressionists and Honore Daumier.
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104	Loren Barton	American	1
	Born in Oxford, Massachusetts, in 1893, but raised in Los Angeles, California, Barton was a great-niece of Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross. She studied art at the Art Students League, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California Art School. Barton traveled to Europe in 1929 and returned to Los Angeles in 1937 where she continued her work in the field of art. She is represented in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, and the New York Public Library. She was also a member of the Print Makers Society of California. Barton is best known for her work as an etcher, water colorist, and illustrator of books.
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7	Frank W. Benson	American	6
	Benson was born in Salem, Massachusetts and studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and the Academie Julien, Paris. He is one of the supreme beings in the etching of waterfowl, whether in tidal flats, marshes, ponds, or flight. No other artist has approached him in the ability to capture wild fowl with etching needle and the copper plate. Benson took up etching when he was 50 years old and designed the second Federal Duck Stamp for the United States Department of Interior when he was 70 years old. He had almost immediate financial success for an etcher. His personal profit from the sale of etchings had averaged about $80,000. a year, before the economic depression. Affectionately known as the "Dean of American Etching," he needled over 300 plates and was a member of the National Academy and Society of American Etchers. John T Ordeman, Frank W.Benson: Master of the Sporting Print, Brooklandville, Maryland, 1983. Gladys E.Lang and Kurt Lang, Etched in Memory, University of North Carolina Press, 1990, pp.193-194.
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8	Thomas Hart Benton	American	9
	Born in Neosho, Missouri, of a family of lawyers and politicians, Thomas Hart Benton was named after his great uncle, who was Andrew Jackson's right-hand man. His father, Colonel M. E. Benton was a powerful force in Missouri politics. His family wanted him to become a lawyer, instead he decided to try his hand in art. Benton's summary of his art education was, "I studied painting in Chicago and then in France. Influenced by modern French Schools, Delacroix onward, intensely by the Italian Renaissance, by Thomas Nast the cartoonist, and other depictors of the American scene." Settling in Kansas City he engrossed himself in the American scene and designed and dramatized the people and localities he visited on canvas and stone. His art became known as regionalism. Former President Harry S. Truman called him, "The best damned painter in America." Many of his prints are lithographed versions of his paintings. Craven, Thomas, A Treasury of American Prints, New York, 1939. Fath, Creekmore, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1969. Kraeft, June and Norman, Great American Prints, 1900-1950, New York, 1984, p.139. Zigrosser, Carl, The Artist in America, New York, 1942, pp.173-179.
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105	Paul F. Berdanier	American	1
	Born in Pennsylvania in 1879, Berdanier studied art in New York, St Louis, and Paris. His etchings vary in subject matter from social comments to sporting and urban views of Paris and the United States. Besides being an illustrator and a well-known cartoonist for United Features Syndicate in the 1930's, Berdanier, designed historical costumes and stage settings.
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106	George Biddle	American	3
	Biddle was born in Philadelphia in 1885. His early life and struggles in becoming an artist are best described in his autobiography, An American Artist's Story, published in 1939. He was instrumental during the Depression in influencing President Roosevelt to start employing artists through the WPA and other agencies, and in the decoration of public buildings with murals and other art work. During World War II, Biddle, became chairman of the War Department's Art Advisory Committee, and oversaw the sending of American artists to record the happenings in various battle zones. The understanding was that all work produced by these artists was to be given to the government for a national war art collection. His works are represented in the New York Public Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Chicago Art Institute. His graphic work in lithography shows a painterly effect and a strong interest in decorative design. Biddle was indefatigable in the promotion of American art and American artists during the twentieth century.
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9	Isabel Bishop	American	2
	Isabel Bishop was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied with Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Guy Pene du Bois at the Art Students League in New York. She established a studio in Union Square, which was home to many artists. These artists and the area became known as the "Fourteenth Street School." Subject matter was plentiful and contained people from all walks of life, the savory to the unsavory. Bishop, is one of the few interpreters in art of the New York working girl's life and looks. From her studio window in New York's Union Square she observed the everyday working girl, sympathetically, but not sentimentally. Every print by Bishop is a figurative study. The casualness, mannerisms, and split-second gestures of her subjects, all seem to have an informal charm when displayed in her studies of life in the Square. Isabel Bishop did more than seventy prints over a sixty-year period, working six days a week in her Union Square studio. Teller, Susan, Isabel Bishop : Catalogue Raisonne, New York, 1981. Johnson, Una E. American Prints and Printmakers, New York, 1980, pp.46-51.
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158	Aaron Bohrod	American	1

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134	Mortimer Borne	Polish-American	2
	Born in Poland in 1902, Borne emigrated to the United States during World War I. He studied art at the Art Students League in New York and the National Academy of Design. Borne was attracted to the landscape of New York City and its people. Most of his drypoints and etchings of New York, printed in small editions, date from 1926 on. His color prints in drypoint prove him to be a master of the technique. Borne has had exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1941, New York Historical Society, 1980, and The Old Print Shop, NYC, 1990's. More of his images can be seen in the book, Borne: Drypoints, Etchings, Color Drypoints, Abaris Books, 1980.
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107	Felix Bracquemond	French	1
	Bracquemond was born in 1833, and studied with Joseph Guichard who was a student of Ingres. He gained an early reputation as an etcher and lithographer, which he taught to Edouart Manet. Bracquemond's etchings of portraits, "Legros," "Corot," "Delacroix," and others are acclaimed brilliant. His etchings of birds, such as "Le Coq," "Canards Surpris," "Ducks at Play," and "Sea-Gulls," are beautiful in expression and considered genuine masterpieces.
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145	Mildred Bryant Brooks	American	1
	Brooks was born in Maryville, Missouri, but was raised in Long Beach, California. Taking art classes at the University of Southern California and the Otis Art Institute, she developed an interest in etching. After marriage and busy with raising children she had little time to devote to her art. However, after an illness she was advised to resume her art work at the Stickney Art School in Pasadena, where she studied with Arthur Millier and E.Stetson Crawford. In 1934, Brooks won a prize from the Society of American Etchers for the "best piece of technical execution in pure etching." Her printmaking supported her entire family during the Depression. Brooks finest work was devoted to the etchings of trees which showed exceptional precision and beauty. Most of her major work was done during the 1930's. Gladys E.Lang and Kurt Lang,Etched in Memory, University of North Carolina Press, 1990, pp.164-165, and p.225.
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12	Auguste Brouet	French	1
	Born in Montmartre, the son of poor parents, Brouet, worked his way through night drawing classes and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He lived in poverty as an art student, but became well known to collectors because of his sincerity in portraying the street-peddlers, gypsies, street-musicians, beggars, and rag pickers in the passages and places where they congregated. He portrayed the dark side of Montmartre in a romantic rendition, closely resembling the etched work of Rembrandt. In later life he became enthralled with the singers, dancers, and circus life of Paris. Brouet's sensitivity and sympathy for his subjects, shows an artist who lived the life of the poor, portraying his subjects from an intimate point of view. Not is he acclaimed as one of the important etchers of Paris, but he has also etched approximately 20 plates of World War I, recognized not only as reliable documents, but of intense artistic quality. F.L.Leipnik, A History of French Etching, London, 1924, pp.169-170.
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160	Felix Buhot	France	2

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108	George Elbert Burr	American	2
	Born near Cleveland, Ohio, Burr was basically a self-taught artist, although he did spend some time at the Art Institute of Chicago. After returning from a five year period in Europe, poor health forced him to reside in Colorado, and then to the desert areas of New Mexico, Arizona, and California. This region was the basis of most of his graphic work, which amounted to about 300 etchings, drypoints, and aquatints. His plates show the changing moods, intense heat, shifting sands, and clouds of the Southwest desert country. Burr's works are visually synonymous with some of the descriptive passages in Willa Cather's novel of the Southwest, Death Comes for the Archbishop.
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14	Andrew Butler	American	19
	Raised in Yonkers, New York, Butler, studied with Eugene Speicher, F. Louis Mora, and Joseph Pennell at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York. The artist spent most of his time working in the New England, and Western areas of the United States. His base was New York and a home near a lake in New Hampshire. Butler does not rely on tonal value in his etchings, but depends on linear precision and a three-dimensional design. Whether he is doing the farms of New England, a ranch land in New Mexico, the deserts of the Southwest, or trains passing through; a penciled line, a distant view, and the white of the paper are of utmost importance in his compositions. He is one of the few American etchers that depended solely on pure line to create a rhythmic quality in his designs of American landscape. Craven, Thomas, A Treasury of American Prints, New York, 1939. Johnson, Una E. American Prints and Printmakers, New York, 1980, p.30. Kraeft, June and Norman, Great American Prints, 1900-1850, New York, 1984, p.140.
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186	Albert Carman	American	3

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109	Samuel Chamberlain	American	3
	Born in Cresco, Iowa, 1895, Chamberlain studied at the University of Washington and M.I.T. He studied art in London and Paris and traveled throughout Europe living in France for a number of years. Considered one of the finest American architectural etchers, his prints not only show the cathedrals, buildings, and shops of Europe, but also the people in their everyday activities. Chamberlain is best known as an etcher, lithographer, illustrator, and photographer.
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16	Jean Charlot	French-American	9
	Born in France, Charlot studied at Lycee Condorcet and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After moving he engrossed himself in the study of Mayan Art which became a powerful force in the creation of his lithographs, drypoints, and woodcuts. His dynamic sculptured style and sense of design presented monumental images which were published by printers he worked closely with, Lawrence Barrett, Albert Carman, and Lynton Kistler. While teaching in various colleges and universities throughout the United States he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue working in Mexico where he produced a portfolio of color lithographs. On his return to the United States he was appointed head of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Charlot also produced color illustrations for The Limited Editions Club publications of Prosper Merimee's, Carmen and Thornton Wilder's , The Bridge of San Luis Rey. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has the largest museum collection of Charlot's prints and the private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lord, star of the television series, "Hawaii Five-O," was donated to the Smithsonian Institution's Division of Graphic Arts. Charlot's last major project was a portfolio showing Melanesian culture, Kei Viti,1978, completed just before his death in Honolulu.
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18	Roland Clark	American	1
	Clark was an artist, author, and sportsman, born in New Rochelle, New York. He studied art at the Art Students League in New York and enjoyed hunting waterfowl in the marsh lands around Long Island Sound. After marriage he settled in the Chesapeake Bay area and devoted himself to depicting water fowl and game birds in etching, drypoint, water color and oils. Most of his work was exhibited in the New York area. His books are, Stray Shots, Gunner's Dawn, Pot Luck, and Roland Clark's Etchings, which contains reproductions of about 70 etchings. Clark was a supporter and member of Ducks Unlimited, Inc. and was chosen to do the 1938 Federal Duck Stamp Design.
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19	Max Arthur Cohn	American	7
	Max Arthur Cohn was born in London, England, and studied at the Art Students League with Boardman Robinson and John Sloan. He became well known for his independent work and production of screenprint images and technique. At age 17, he worked for a large commercial art studio where he developed his technique and experimented with the medium in his personal art. Cohn added a new concept of screenprinting with the use of transparent washes, which gave the finished product the quality of transparent watercolor. Being employed at numerous commercial art studios as a screenprinter gave him the opportunity to continue his experiments with the medium. Unfortunately, none of his early experiments from the 1920's or early 1930's are known to have survived. Adding further to his venture into screenprinting he wrote the book, Silk Screen Stenciling as a Fine Art, which is still in print today as, Silk Screen Techniques . Cohn produced his last artistic screenprint images in 1945, but maintained a commercial art studio in New York in the 1950's. A large number of artists working in this medium attracted deserved recognition when the Bethesda Art Gallery in Maryland had an exhibition of screenprints in 1980. A further exhibition, in 1987, at the National Academy of Design in New York, showed screenprints from the collection of Reba and Dave Williams. This exhibition incurred even greater interest in a most difficult but colorful medium. Biegeleisen, I. J. Cohn, Max Arthur, Silk Screen Techniques, Dover Publications, New York, 1958. Falk, Peter Hastings, Max Arthur Cohn: "Pioneer of the American Screenprint," unpublished monograph, Madison, Connecticut, no date. Williams, Reba and Dave, "The Early History of the Screenprint," Print Quarterly, vol. III, 1986, pp.287-321. Zigrosser, Carl, "The Serigraph, A New Medium," The Print Collector's Quarterly, vol.28 , 1946, pp.442-477.
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20	Howard Cook	American	3
	Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Cook studied art at the Art Students League in New York. He became a nationally known painter, muralist, and master of all graphic media. He was commissioned by Forbes magazine to illustrate Willa Cather's, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and went to the Southwest for this purpose. Here, he met and married another fellow artist, Barbara Latham. After extensive travel they eventually made New Mexico their permanent home. Cook was granted two Guggenheim Fellowships to work in Mexico and the American South. During the WPA years he did two frescoes for the Courthouse Building in Springfield, Massachusetts. At the outbreak of World War II, he was appointed Artist War Correspondent with the rank of colonel, and recorded the activities of American forces in the South Pacific. Stationed in the Solomon Islands he completed prints, drawings, watercolors, and paintings on the war.
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21	John E. Costigan	American	2
	Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1888, Costigan was basically self-taught as an artist. He is considered an outstanding etcher and water colorist in his interpretation of life on an American farm. Moving to a farm in Orangeburg, New York, in 1919, Costigan performed the chores of a farmer as well as etching and painting his family and other subject matter involving farm life.
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146	Jack Coughlin	American	1
	Coughlin studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Art Students League in New York. He was a professor of art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and received many awards for his art work in the field of printmaking. His illustrations appear in a number of books and he is a regular contributor to the New Republic. Coughlin is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists, Springfield Art League, and an associate member of the National Academy of Design. His work portraying musicians from the field of blues and jazz received high praise from critics and fellow artists. Some of the musicians in this series are, Thelonius Monk, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and Blind Boy Fuller. Coughlin's graphic art is in the collection of the Modern Museum of Art, Boston Public Library, and Columbia University.
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110	John Steuart Curry	American	2
	Curry was born on a farm in Kansas in 1897 and studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Coming to New York, he taught at Cooper Union and the Art Students League. He started his professional career as an illustrator for popular magazines and gradually turned to lithography in the late 1920's and 1930's. His lithographs involve regionalism in subject matter and the social issues of his times. Curry's print of "John Brown," the abolitionist, is not only a powerful image, but also considered a masterpiece in the field of lithography.
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137	S.Chester Danforth	American	2
	Danforth was born in 1896, in Ithaca, New York, but lived most of his life in Chicago and the surrounding area. He studied art in Chicago at the Art Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts. Danforth is admired for his architectural etchings of Chicago, done in both color and black and white.
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128	Wayne Davis	American	1
	Davis was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1904, and studied at Columbia University, New York University, and the Art Students League with Joseph Pennell. He was an illustrator for Vanity Fair, Fortune, Liberty, and other magazines. Davis held the position of Art Director for Grumman Aircraft, 1941-1953. He is well-known for his fine water colors and etchings in the field of aviation, and also, the sport of skiing.
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24	Adolf Dehn	American	12
	Born in Waterville, Minnesota, in 1895, Dehn studied at the Minneapolis Art Institute and the Art Students League. Traveling to Europe in the early 1920's, he studied lithography with the French printer, Edmond Desjobert, enabling Dehn to project more tonal quality in his prints. Receiving two Guggenheim Fellowships, he traveled to Haiti and Mexico, where his compositions became larger in scale and simpler in form. Credited with more than 300 prints, his art contains landscapes, satirical works, and the depiction of human nature.
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26	Stevan Dohanos	American	2
	Born in Lorain, Ohio, 1907, Dohanos is known as a wood engraver, lithographer, painter, and illustrator. He studied lithography with Stow Wengenroth. Dohanos is best known for the 125 Saturday Evening Post covers he created between 1943 and 1959. He is also credited with creating more than 25 United States commemorative stamps. Dohanos mastery of wood engraving can be seen in his print, "State Fair."
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140	Leon Dolice	Austrian-American	3
	Born in Austria, Dolice spent the major part of his teens and early twenties studying the works of the Masters while venturing throughout Europe. He came to the United States in 1920 and settled in Greenwich Village, New York City. Obsessed with the city, he depicted the architecture, alley ways, waterfront, and nostalgic areas of his newly adopted environment. Most of his etchings dealt with areas now extinct or forgotten, like the Third Avenue El, where Dolice had maintained his studio for over ten years. He also devoted time doing pastels and paintings of New York. Dolice's works are in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, New York Historical Society, and the New York Public Library.
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27	Kerr Eby	American	2

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149	Fritz Eichenberg	German-American	1
	Eichenberg received his formal art training in Leipzig at the Academy of Graphic Arts, choosing wood engraving as his major art form. After the rise of Adolf Hitler, he decided his stay in Germany was at risk because of his Jewish background. In 1933 he managed to get his family out of the country to the United States. The death of his wife caused a breakdown for Eichenberg and while recovering, he decided to convert to the Quaker religion, where he received comfort and a spirit of the simple life. His new religion inspired powerful graphic images, showing his quest for the Peaceable Kingdom and his own spiritual and moral aspects. At the time of his death at eighty-nine, Eichenberg, was acclaimed as one of the modern masters of wood engraving. He was famous for his illustrations of the Russian writers, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. Their works were published by the Heritage Press and The Limited Editions Club. Eichenberg's work is in the collection of the New York Public Library and other museums and galleries. He also has the distinction of being an early director of the Pratt Graphic Center in New York City.
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28	Churchill Ettinger	American	3
	Ettinger was born in New Jersey in 1903, and studied art at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League, and the New York School of Industrial Arts. He was an avid outdoor sportsman participating in skiing, hunting, and fishing, as well as being a prolific artist. He produced more than 170 drypoints of the outdoor sporting life, portraying the true essence of the sportsman artist. Settling in Vermont in the 1950's, he was commissioned by Brown and Bigelow to complete a series of drypoints and work on Wildlife calendars. Ettinger enjoyed working with his two field dogs, "Queenie" and "Troubadour," who served as faithful models in creating wonderful images of the charm, intellect, and gentility of field dogs at work. A great deal of his work was published by Associated American Artists during the mid-twentieth century.
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132	Ernest Fiene	German-American	1
	Born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894, Fiene came to the United States at age 16 and became a naturalized citizen in 1927. He studied art at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League in New York, and in 1932 received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Through lithography, etching, and painting, Fiene, captured the rural scenes of New England and the architectural views of New York in a picturesque, abstract manner, which are eloquently charming and original.
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29	Hans Figura	Austrian	6

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31	Isac Friedlander	Latvian-American	3
	Friedlander was born in Mitau, Latvia, and studied art in Rome. He began his career as a graphic artist in 1917, and became prolific as a wood engraver and etcher. After coming to the United States in 1929, he depicted New York during the Great Depression; Labor and Industry in America; the Inhumanity of the Holocaust; and Life in the Circus. Friedlander's woodcuts show a close proximity to the German Expressionist prints of the early twentieth century.
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150	Emil Ganso	German-American	2
	Emil Ganso was born in Halberstadt, Germany, in 1895, and came to New York in his teens, virtually penniless. He was basically self-taught in the arts, although he was influenced by Jules Pascin, whose drawing skills he greatly admired. Eventually, Erhard Weyhe, of the Weyhe Gallery noted his potential as an artist and offered him a stipend, allowing him to work full time making paintings, drawings, and prints. In 1932-33 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and went abroad to study print making, especially lithography, pigments, and painting techniques. Ganso perfected a painterly approach in his work which can be seen in many of his prints, showing strong tonal values. His aquatints and soft-ground etchings are exquisite in the use of balanced light and dark tones. Ganso was a long time resident of the Woodstock Art Colony where he maintained a home and studio creating many prints, drawings, and water colors of the area. He was the first artist-in-residence to receive a full professorship in art at the University of Iowa where he was respected by his colleagues and students. His death of a heart attack at the age of forty-six, cut short an illustrious career, devoted to art.
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185	Elinor Gibson Graham	American	1

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33	Gordon Grant	American	19
	Born in 1875 in San Francisco, Grant, traveled to Great Britain for his formal education, and then studied art at Lambeth and Heatherley in London. After his return to San Francisco, he worked as an illustrator and a correspondent artist for various newspapers in the area. Covering the Boer War and the Mexican Revolution, his images came East and appeared in Harper's Weekly in New York. Eventually, Grant, established himself as an outstanding illustrator of books. During the early 1900's he participated in a project to restore and designate as a National monument, the historic vessel, the U.S.Constitution. Publishing prints of his painting of this vessel, Grant, was able to help raise money for its preservation. The original painting now hangs in the White House. His lithographs, etchings, oils, water colors, and drawings of life on the seven seas and the vessels that sailed them, prove Grant, to be one of the foremost American marine artists.
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36	William Gropper	American	3
	Gropper was born in 1897 on the Lower East Side of New York, the son of poor parents from the Ukraine and Roumania. His mother and father worked long hours in sweatshops to support their family. Gropper studied art with George Bellows and Robert Henri at the Ferrer School and later at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. He contributed work to such magazines as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New Masses, Sunday Worker, and the Yiddish daily paper, Freiheit. Gropper's art reflects a keen sense of social injustice and his graphic work was extremely influential during the Great Depression. He attacked fascism throughout the world. A cartoon of Emperor Hirohito, appearing in Vanity Fair, 1935, caused diplomatic repercussions between the United States and Japan. In 1937, Gropper was given a one-man show at the A.C.A. Gallery in New York, dedicated to the defenders of democracy in Spain, and a series of prints, from his Guggenheim Fellowship, on the problems of the Dust Bowl. In 1952, Senator Joseph McCarthy, called Gropper before the House of Un-American Activities Committee because of his affiliation with various periodicals, his journeys to the Soviet Union, and a distribution of prints from a map painting, titled, "William Gropper's America: Its Folklore." Senator McCarthy considered these activities to be subversive, inspired and backed by Communists. Gropper refused to answer any questions and invoked the Fifth Amendment causing him to be blacklisted. Upset with the Committee's decisions, he retaliated with a scorching series of graphic works, entitled, "The Capriccios," consisting of fifty lithographs, inspired by Goya. In the 1960's, he received a grant from the Ford Foundation to work in the area of color printmaking at the Tamarind Institute Workship in California. Gropper's philosophy of life in art is: "I am interested in mankind. People create the "landscape" in my works. I fight wrongs. I fight in a creative sense."
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171	Axel Herman Haig	Swedish	2

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40	George Overbury (Pop) Hart	American	13
	Hart was born in Cairo, Illinois, and for the most part was self-taught, although, he spent some time at the Chicago Art Institute and the Academie Julian in Paris. No doubt, his impatience with academic learning caused him to leave, but he was encouraged by, and learned from his artist friends. Hart was more content living the simple life over affluence and critic recognition. The small amount of money he received from sign painting, and stage designs for movie sets, was used for his travels to warm and distant places. Traveling to Mexico, Central America, North Africa, the Caribbean and South Seas, Hart, experienced life with excitement, amusement, and empathy. More than eighty prints portray his vagabond encounters on paper, in an experimental manner, rather than conventional. The use of broad strokes, liquid tusche washes, sandpaper, roulette, and monotype, helped to achieve a painter like quality in his work. Hart's images show exuberance in the everyday life of working people at cockfights, fiestas, outdoor markets, and leisure activities. This was an artist that loved creating images, and the people, seen, in them.
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112	Childe Hassam	American	3
	Born in Boston in 1859, Hassam studied and traveled in Europe in the 1880's, and became interested in the French Impressionists. At the age of forty-six, he studied etching with Kerr Eby. Hassam is considered one of the leading advocates of American Impressionism. The play of light and shadow in his etchings of New England scenes, and the streets and old houses around East Hampton, where he lived, form pictorial compositions of timeless beauty. His entire graphic work consists of about 375 etchings and 45 lithographs.
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154	William Heaslip	Canadian-American	4

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43	Albert Heckman	American	2
	Heckman was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1893, and studied at the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in Germany. Soon after he joined the faculty of Hunter College as an Assistant Professor and remained there until his retirement to Woodstock in 1958. Heckman was an early member of the art colony at Woodstock and ran a summer art school during the 1930's under the sponsorship of Columbia Teachers College. Lithography became his main endeavor and many of the neighboring towns near Woodstock, such as Kingston, Glasco, Poughkeepsie, and Eddyville were his favorite subjects. Heckman was frequently included in Whitney Museum exhibitions from 1933 to 1956 and in other important national shows. During the 1950's to 1960's his work became more abstract and his favorite mediums were oil, water color and ink.
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44	Arthur W. Heintzelman	American	4
	Heintzelman was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1890 and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and in Europe. He was a master etcher and draftsman in the field of portraiture, recording sensitive images of children, musicians, elderly people, and world-wide figures, such as Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Arturo Toscanini. In 1941, he was given the title of Keeper of Prints at the Boston Public Library and continued in that position, arranging exhibitions; adding collections of prints; and writing about the graphic arts for the Library's publications, until his retirement in 1960. His graphic works number about 300, consisting of etchings, drypoints, and lithographs.
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45	Riva Helfond	American	1
	Riva Helfond was born in New York in 1910, but spent most of her childhood in Russia. In 1923, she returned to the United States and studied at the Art Students League in New York with Harry Sternberg, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Alexander Brook. During the latter part of the 1930's she was associated with the silkscreen unit of the Graphic Arts Division, WPA Federal Arts Project, in New York. Helfond has shown her work in both national and international exhibitions and taught graphic arts at New York University, and Union College, New Jersey. Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Princeton University, Cornell University, and the Los Angeles County Museum.
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46	Eugene Higgins	American	3

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47	Joseph Hirsch	American	2

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172	Irwin Hoffman	American	3

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51	Lester George Hornby		5
	Lester George Hornby was born in Massachusetts and received his early training in fine arts at the Rhode Island School of Design and The Art Students League in New York. Hornby's graphic output includes about 330 etchings, drypoints, color aquatints, and lithographs, done from 1905 through the 1940's. His technique was often complicated and variable before the desired effect was achieved. He used different sands and powdered resins to obtain various effects in the shadows and lines of his finished product. Also, his wiping techniques or retroussage in printing gave him excellent results in the large areas of light and shadows, which were prominent in so many of his plates. After the conclusion of World War 1, Hornby, became less intrigued with dramatic tones and atmospheric effects and concentrated more on achieving effect through the line itself. During the 1940's he became interested in lithography and produced some strong images such as, Night Watch, The Plowman, and Palais de Justice La Conciergerie. Never an equal to his earlier etchings, they did however, evoke a mystique through shadows and atmospheric effect. It should be mentioned that edition sizes are only approximate, as Hornby may have intended to print in the edition sizes noted, but usually printed in smaller numbers. The reference numbers mentioned in this catalogue refer to the checklist of the artist's etchings, as published in "Lester G. Hornby, Painter-Etcher," by Peter Hastings Falk, Madison, Connecticut, 1983.
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141	Earl Horter	American	1
	Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Horter was primarily self-taught as an artist. The mood and reality of a subject, including light and shade, are captured in Horter's aquatints and etchings, projecting a unique individuality in his vision. A great deal of his work was done in Philadelphia, New Orleans, and New York.
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170	Alfred Hutty	American	1

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53	Helen Hyde	American	4
	Helen Hyde was born in Lima, New York in 1868, but grew up in the San Francisco area where she began to study art at an early age. She went to the California School of Design and traveled to Berlin and Paris for further studies. While in Paris she became interested in Japanese art and the work of Mary Cassatt. After the death of her mother, she left for Japan to study brush painting and color woodblock printing. Establishing a home in Tokyo, Hyde, became a prominent artist of the color woodblock print, depicting the Japanese landscape, their colorful clothing, and mothers and children. She also did a similar series of Mexico with skillful use of design and color. Eventually, becoming ill with cancer she returned to the United States, where she died in 1919. Helen Hyde is recognized as a leading exponent in introducing Japanese color woodblock printmaking techniques to the Western art world.
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113	Joe Jones	American	1
	Jones was born, 1909, in a poor neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. His father earned money as a house painter to support the family. Although, Jones, worked with Thomas Hart Benton, he was basically self-taught as an artist. His exhibition in New York, 1935, received recognition by the poet, Archibald MacLeish. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937, and shortly afterwards, declared his membership in the Communist Party. During the Depression, Jones, made strong social comments in his lithographs and paintings, but also brought an original and sensitive feeling in the depiction of his subject matter.
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54	Mervin Jules	American	1

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55	Philip Kappel	American	33
	Philip Kappel was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1901, and graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in 1924. Three years later he was admitted into Who's Who in America, the youngest individual ever listed. For many years he was employed as an artist by the major steamship lines in the United States, such as, the Columbia Line, American Export Lines, and the Cuba Mail Line. His artwork became a record of shipping, past and present, forming a fascinating collection of the ships and men who sailed them. His technique showed the hand of an illustrator's pen and ink, bold strokes were used for emphasis and clarity of design. At other times he used combinations of light and dark, forming silhouettes, which he learned from the marine artist, Philip Little, while spending summers in Salem, Massachusetts. This silhouette style can be seen in some of Kappel's drypoints, and his illustrations for C.W. Taussig's book, Rum, Romance, and Rebellion. Kappel received many awards for his work. The Bijur Prize, Brooklyn Society of Etchers, 1926, for the print, "Repairs." In 1946, "Off El Morro, Puerto Rico," received a Purchase Prize in the First Annual National Art Competition held by Associated American Artists, New York. First Prize for, "Winter Tracery, New Milford Green," Arts and Crafts Association of Meriden, 1950. First Prize for, "Sugar Maples in Spring, Kappel Residence," Meriden Art Association, 1961. He was the author of several books, the most noted being, Boothbay Harbor-A Portfolio of Sketches, 1924, Louisiana Gallery, 1950, Jamaica Gallery, 1960, and New England Gallery, 1966. The last showing a fond appreciation for his New England heritage, containing 131 drawings and text of the areas most intimate and cherished places. Not only was Kappel recognized for his graphic artwork, but also as an authority on Chinese porcelain, Japanese art, and American and English antiques. He has written and lectured extensively on these topics. In finalizing the works of Philip Kappel, one must state, he honestly and directly recorded the sailing vessels and steamships bound for various ports of call. The men and ships sailing these waters were depicted in the rich burr of drypoint, capturing bright sunlight on paper with open white spaces. His romance with the sea and man's struggle with its elements and quieter moments were fulfilled.
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56	Andrew Karoly	Hungarian-American	1

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57	Luigi Kasimir	Austrian	2

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60	Rockwell Kent	American	1

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61	Troy Kinney	American	3
	Style and beauty are the essence of Troy Kinney's art. His devotion to the dance , on stage or in fantasy during the early twentieth century acclaim him as a superb chronicler of the ballet. He displays a sense of choreography with an etching needle, showing swirling movement and airiness in the dance. Some of his well known subjects from the period are Pavlova, Nijinsky, Bohm, and Genee, all captured in physical movement on paper. Born in Falls Village, Connecticut, Kinney studied at Yale University and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was an ardent advocate of the dance, contributing articles to many publications and co-authored the book, The Dance, Its Place in Art and Life. Kinney's works are in the collection of the Cleveland Museum, Brooklyn Museum, New York Public Library, Yale University, and other institutions.
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164	Robert Kipniss		2

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142	Marguerite Kirmse	British-American	1
	Marguerite Kirmse was born in Bournemouth, England , and studied art and music in London. At first she earned her living as a harpist, for she was an accomplished musician. However, her passion was in her drawing of animals at the London Zoo, and later, in New York at the Bronx Zoo. These excursions gave her a superb command of anatomy and a penchant for elegance in the animal. Assets of this sort made Marguerite Kirmse a natural as a canine artist. In the thirties- that decade of dreams and depression, Miss Kirmse was one of the most popular of graphic artists. Maintaining her own farm and kennel in Connecticut, she bred various terriers and field dogs. Her favorite subject was, and always had been , the Scottish terrier. Marguerite Kirmse became widely known throughout the United States and Europe for her ability to capture on paper, the whims, charming characteristics, and somewhat human qualities of the Dog. She truly loved her subject.
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143	Hans Kleiber	German-American	1
	Hans Kleiber was born in Cologne, Germany and came to the United States in 1900, eventually moving from the eastern coast to Wyoming in 1906. He studied art in New Jersey for a short time, but is generally known as a self-taught artist. Kleiber worked for the United States Forestry Service as a ranger and hunting and fishing guide in the Bighorn Mountain area. Maintaining a studio at Dayton, Wyoming, he etched and painted nature and wildlife subjects. A popular artist in the Rocky Mountain states, he was also a member of the California Printmakers and won a silver medal in 1921 for his artwork.
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63	Leon Kroll	American	1
	Leon Kroll was a painter, lithographer, teacher, and art critic, born in 1884, in New York City. He studied at the Art Students League, and with John H. Twachtman, before continuing to Paris at the Academie Julian. He remained naturalistic in his lithographs and paintings of landscape, portraits, and still life, during a time when other artists were moving in the direction of abstraction or modernism. Kroll's vision is not total realism but a transposing of nature according to his individual feelings. He shows sensitivity and romanticism in his portraits of women, as can be seen in the lithograph, "Monique," commissioned by the Print Club of Cleveland, in 1945.
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64	Otto Kuhler	German-American	4
	Born in Germany in 1894, Kuhler was the sole heir of his family's steel business, Kuhler Forges, located in the industrial Ruhr River valley. After World War I the family business was virtually ruined, causing Kuhler to become a commercial artist in Dusseldorf. In 1923, he emigrated to the United States and decided to take up etching, on advice from his friend, Joseph Pennell. His etchings and art work show powerful images depicting industrial machines, steam locomotives, industry at work, and construction. His art career came to an end when he became a consultant for the American Locomotive Company and designed the fastest locomotive in the world, the 1935, "Hiawatha," in Schenectady, New York. This streamlined steam locomotive ran between Chicago and St. Paul at a speed of two miles per minute. Kuhler's autobiography, My Iron Journey, traces his career in industry to his life as a cattle rancher in Colorado.
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182	Elinore LaCaff	American	1

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65	Chet Harmon LaMore	American	1
	LaMore is well known as a social realism and industrial landscape artist. His complete works include paintings. sculpture, and the graphic arts. He was born on a tobacco farm in Dane County, Wisconsin, in 1908, and eventually raised in Madison, Wisconsin. LaMore studied art at the Colt School of Art, Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University. In 1933 he moved to Baltimore where he maintained a studio and worked for the Federal Arts Project. Here, he came into contact with other artists such as Aaron Sopher and Mervin Jules. Moving to New York in 1936, LaMore worked for the WPA Graphic Division and became an active member of the New York Artists' Union and their publication, Art Front. After leaving New York in the 1940's, he turned to sculpture and became an art professor at the University of Michigan from 1947-1974.
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161	Paul Landacre	American	1

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144	Armin Landeck	American	5
	Landeck was born in Wisconsin, in 1905, but was educated in New York at Columbia University School of Architecture, and stayed most of his entire life in the New York area. After making his first etching, he traveled to Europe in 1928-1929 to gain more knowledge about the techniques of graphic arts. Returning to New York City, he joined forces with Martin Lewis and George Miller to start a school for printmakers at Miller's studio. The majority of Landeck's architectural scenes of the buildings, rooftops, and streets of New York give the viewer a feeling of quietness, loneliness, and mystery. One sees in each of his prints a relationship to the solitude seen in the works of Edward Hopper. This can be felt in Landeck's drypoint, "York Avenue, Sunday Morning." The shadows, gas tanks, bridge, and avenue leading up to the white exterior of the New York Hospital, project the city's isolation and emptiness.
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66	Edward Landon	American	16
	Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1911, Landon, dropped out of high school to enroll in the Hartford Art School, and eventually moved to Greenwich Village in New York to study at the Art Students League. One of the important artists he would be indebted to was Arthur Dove, who encouraged his venture into the art of abstraction. In 1939, Landon was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on Non-Objective Painting. He eventually became intrigued with the silkscreen process and turned away from painting, helping to organize the group known as the National Serigraph Society. He served as its president and helped with exhibitions, lectures, and demonstrations. Landon is credited with more than 240 silkscreen prints and is recognized as one of the most outstanding and accomplished silkscreen printmakers of his time. Some of his notable abstract prints are, "Arrangement with Blue Major," inspired by his love of music; "Nothing Begins, Nothing Ends," and "Time Silhouette," relating to his studies of Nordic cultures.
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183	Maude Langtree	American