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L’Escoutay

Stanley William Hayter, International Graphic Arts Society, Inc., and others

L’Escoutay

1951

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L’Escoutay

1951

Physical Qualities Engraving, softground etching, and scorper; printed in brown (intaglio), orange-red-orange gradient (wood offset, stencil, relief), and blue-green gradient (stencil, relief), Sheet: 372 × 494 mm. (14 5/8 × 19 7/16 in.) Plate: 196 × 308 mm. (7 11/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Print Fund
Object Number 1952.176
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1952 purchased from IGAS.
Malcolm Daniel, BMA traveling exhibition, "Innovations in Intaglio: S.W. Hayter and The Atelier 17," 1980-81, circulated to Arundel Center, Annapolis; Caroline County Public Library, Denton; Community College of Baltimore; Landon School, Bethesda; The Museum in the Mall, Columbia; The Park School, Brooklandville; Saint John's College, Annapolis; Washington College, Chestertown; Western Maryland College, Westminster.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "67/200"; lower right in graphite: "SWH 51"

Markings: WM: Marais

Publisher

International Graphic Arts Society, Inc.

The International Graphic Arts Society (IGAS) was a nonprofit organization founded in 1951 with the dual goals of promoting the work of contemporary printmakers and bringing print media to a wider audience. IGAS served as a driving force behind the post-World War II "Print Renaissance" in the United States for the next two decades. At the core of IGAS was a seven-member jury that was responsible for selecting the artists who would then be commissioned to produce editions that would eventually be sold to IGAS members. Among the artists published by IGAS are Karel Appel, Leonard Baskin, Hans Erni, Stanley W. Hayter, Jean Iurcat, Ynez Johnston, Ezio Martinelli, Seong Moy, Gabor Peterdi, Paul Shaub, Kiyoshi Saito, Ben Shahn, Carol Summers, Rikio Takahashi, Peter Takal and Ada Yunkers. [Sources: Syracuse University website http://travex.syr.edu/exhibitions/SUArt/IGAS.html; https://archive.org/stream/calendarofdukeun1963duke/calendarofdukeun1963duke_djvu.txt and College Museum Notes Author(s): Patrick J. Kelleher Source: Art Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Summer, 1963)]
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Printer

Dadi Wirz

American, born Switzerland, 1931

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