American Engraving Art

American Engraving Art

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Engraving

"Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations; these images are also called engravings" -Wikipedia

Andrew Raftery: The Autobiography of a Garden is a 2020 exhibit at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens which says: "The exhibition .... is the work of American painter and printmaker Andrew Raftery and is the product of his inventive, modern-day approach to the transfer of print images onto ceramic, a process dating back to the mid-18th century." Accessed 10/20

Poet in Copper: Engravings by Evan Lindquist is a 2014 exhibit at the Arkansas Arts Center which says: "The artist's lyrical engravings explore abstract imagery, music, portraiture, animals, landscape, satire, architectural fantasies, and the history of printmaking, among other subjects." Accessed 2/17

Scrimshaw: The Whaler's Art is a 2022 exhibit at the Cahoon Museum of American Art which says: "This major exhibition presents the art and history of scrimshaw, a nautical folk art form created by whalers during the international whaling trade of the 19th century. The surprising history of this unique art form is explained and brought to life through the stories of the makers and recipients of these intricately detailed keepsakes." Also see article in Antiques and The Arts Weekly and Resource Library's 1998 artilce Scrimshaw: the Whalers' Art Accessed 9/22

The West of Thomas Moran was an exhibit held December 2010 - March 21, 2013 at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. The exhibition included fifteen Thomas Moran prints and two Moran engravings. Accessed August, 2016.

(above: Leonard Ochtman, Summer Morning, 1911, wood engraving on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973.130.270. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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