| Title: | Apple Tree | 
   
    | Artist: | Walker, Anne (Boston, 1933 - Resides, Paris) | 
   
    | Date: | c. 1980 | 
   
    | Medium: | Original Color Aquatint Engraving | 
   
      | Publisher: | John Szoke Graphics, New York City | 
  
    | Edition: | Limited edition of seventy-five impressions, numbered 70/75, 
      'John Szoke Graphics' Blind Stamp on the lower right Corner. | 
   
    | Note: | Anne Walker: An important contemporary printmaker, 
      painter and creator of hand-made books, Anne Walker first studied art in 
      Boston at Smith College. She then travelled to Paris in 1956 to complete 
      her education at the atelier of the famous German artist, Johnny Friedlaender 
      (b. 1912). Walker's first aquatints and etchings were created at his studio. 
      In the early 1970's she made Paris her permanent home. Besides producing 
      her own prints and paintings she has also created art in collaboration with 
      her husband, Bertrand Dorny. | 
   
    |  | Most of Anne Walker's original aquatints date from the 1970's 
      and early 1980's. Although she was then living permanently in Paris, her 
      aquatints and other works of art draw upon the forests and trees of New 
      England as the primary source of inspiration. As one can see in such fine 
      aquatints as Apple Tree, however, these are not realistic portrayals 
      of nature, but tonal compositions transformed by abstracted movements and 
      memories. Beginning around 1989, Walker dedicated much of her oeuvre to 
      the creation of what she terms, 'painted books'. Each page of these works 
      is either painted and or aquatinted by hand in conjunction with the words 
      and writings of her favorite authors, whom she states are, "living 
      and phantom collaborators" * These include such authors as Emily Dickinson, 
      Thoreau, Kenneth Koch, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. In 2003 
      a major exhibition of Walker's painted books took place at the Boston Athenaeum. | 
   
    |  | In 1956 Anne Walker's first solo exhibition was held at the 
      Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. Since that time her aquatints, paintings 
      and books have been the subject of one woman exhibitions at major galleries 
      in San Francisco, Indianapolis, New York, Paris, Goteborg, Sweden, Lausanne, 
      Switzerland, Essen, Germany, Luxembourg and Nice. She has also regularly 
      exhibited with the Boston Printmakers, the Salon de Mai and La Jeune Gravure 
      Contemporaine, Paris. | 
   
    | Reference: | * J. Reid-Cunningham (Chief Conservator, Boston Athenaeum), 
      Anne Walker: Painted Books, http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ZV6fwbGJapgJ:palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/m... | 
   
    | Size: | 13 3/4 X 17 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, 
      height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) | 
   
    |  | Matted with 100% Archival Materials | 
   
    | Buy Now | Price: $465.00 US | 
   
    | Note: | Image is Not Presently Available, Please Contact Us | 
   
    | Condition: | Printed upon fine hand-made paper bearing the 'Arches France' 
      watermark and with full deckled margins as published by John Szoke Graphics 
      in New York in the sole, limited edition of seventy-five impressions. Signed, 
      titled and numbered, '70/75' by the artist along the lower margin. A beautiful, 
      full colour impression and in excellent condition throughout. This original 
      aquatint engraving entitled Apple Tree, stands as a prime example 
      of the modern art of Anne Walker. | 
   
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