Image

Leonard Edmondson

Untitled

Description

Maker

Leonard Edmondson (American, b. 1916), designer

Title

Untitled

Year

1960

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

aquatint, soft-ground etching

Supports

Dimensions

15.1 x 29 cm (5 15/16 x 11 7/16 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto:In pencil under platemark on left:18/110 ; signed on right:Edmondson

Label: Accompanying label:AN ETCHING, untitled, by Leonard Edmondson/comes to you with CHRISTMAS GREETINGS/from COLLECTORS OF AMERICAN ART, Inc./LEONARD EDMONDSON has won innumerable major honors and awards as a graphic artist and watercolorist, among them two Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grants in 1952 and '57, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960, and prizes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the University of Illinois, and the San Francisco Museum of Art.His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan, Philadelphia, Dallas and Seattle Museums.He has had one-man exhibitions in his home state of California, where he was graduated from the University of Calif. at Berkeley in 1942.In addition to the above-named museums, the Whitney and Guggenheim, in New York City, and the Chicago Art Inst., Carnegie Intern't, Corcoran Gallery and Third Biennial in Sao Paulo, have shown Leonard Edmondson in recent year

Identification

Edition

18/110

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Fazzano Brothers

Object Number

84.198.438

Type

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Leonard Edmondson (American, b. 1916), designer
Untitled, 1960
etching; aquatint; soft-ground etching
15.1 x 29 cm (5 15/16 x 11 7/16 inches) (plate)
Gift of the Fazzano Brothers 84.198.438

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