| Title: |
Rain (Western Canada) |
| Artist: |
Handforth, Thomas Schofield 'Thomas Handforth' (Tacoma, Washington, 1897 - Pasadena, Ca, 1948) |
| Date: |
1927 |
| Medium: |
Original Etching |
| Note: |
Thomas Schofield Handforth 'Thomas Handforth': A leading American etcher, illustrator, author and painter Thomas Handforth studied at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League, New York, and at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He was a full member of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers, the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, Chicago Society of Etchers, the American Federation of Arts and the Society of American Etchers. Today his original etchings are included in such major collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the New York Public Library, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Honolulu Academy of Arts, San Diego Museum of Art, The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Handforth also illustrated many fine books such as Toutou in Bondage, by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, Macmillan Company, (1929), Sidonie (1920), and On the Riviera Levante, for 'The Forum', pp. 114-123 by Pierre Coalfleet 'pseudonym' of Frank Cyril Shaw Davison (1926), Handbook on the Italian Ballet, by Luigi Albertierre and Tranquilina's Paradise by Susan Smith Minton, Balch & Co., New York (1930), the Caldecott Medal Winner: Mei Li, written and illustrated by Thomas Handforth, Doubleday, New York (1938), Faraway Meadow, Doubleday, New York (1939), written and illustrated by Thomas Handforth, The Secret of the Porcelain Fish by Margery Evernden, Random House, New York (1947). Thomas Handforth can also be found listed under 'Thomas Scofield Handforth' and 'Thomas S. Handforth' . |
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Much of Thomas S. Handforth's art depicts the peoples and places of foreign lands. Much traveled, he visited North Africa, Mexico and Canada in the late 1920's. During the 1930's he worked extensively in China and Southeast Asia. With its brilliant use of light and shade and line, Rain (Western Canada) is considered one of his finest works of original art. Rain was awarded the 'Emil Fuchs' Prize for the second best print in the Brooklyn Society of Etchers: 12th Annual Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1927. Thomas Handforth created at least three Canadian farm scene etchings in 1927, the first is entitled, Clayoquote, printed in an edition of fifty impressions. Clayoquot Sound is located on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Both the Spencer Museum of art ID#1988.0041 and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Accession Number: P.87.16.20, include an impression of Clayoquote (1927), in their collection. The second etching is entitled, Opisat, also printed in an edition of fifty impressions. Opisat is a village located near Meares Island and Tofino, also located in the Clayoquote Sound region in British Columbia. Opisat is the main village of the Tia-o-aqui-aht, First Nations. At one time, Opisat was the location of Fort Defiance, an American fur trading post. Rain (Western Canada), hails from a private collection located in British Columbia. It is the third etching depicting the same subject and it was also printed in (1927), with a similar size edition of (fifty impressions). Vancouver Island is on the British Columbia Coast, Canada's western continental coastline on the Pacific Ocean above Tacoma, Washington, Handforth's birth place. Another impression of Rain (1927), is housed in the collection of the Seattle Public Library. ID# SPl_art_H192Ra. It is interesting that little information is available concerning the time Handforth spent in Canada. However, the etchings previously mentioned, and a listing for Thomas Schofield Handforth in Evelyn McMann's art directory validate his work in Canada, Reference: Biographical Index of Artists in Canada, Evelyn De R. McMann, University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2003, Toronto, Buffalo, & London. That book recorded over 8,800 artists that were active in Canada from the 17th century to the year the book was published. Born in Montreal, Evelyn de Rostaing McMann (1913-1998), was a well, respected author of important Canadian art reference books and art catalogues. She worked at the Vancouver, BC Public Library for fourteen years and during that time, she was responsible for indexing Canadian art in the Fine Arts and Music Division of the library. |
| Edition: |
Limited edition of fifty impressions. |
| Size: |
5 1/4 X 6 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height
preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
| Condition: |
Printed upon fine, hand-made, laid paper with the Arches watermark and with full, deckled margins as printed in 1927. Signed in pencil and annotated 50 (edition) by the artist under the platemark. Containing mat burning in the outer margins else a strongly printed, atmospheric impression and in good condition throughout. Rain (Western Canada) represents a prime, original example of the famous etched art of Thomas Schofield Handforth. |
| Price: |
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