| Title: |
Dutch Schnapps |
| Artist: |
Weir, Julian Alden (West Point, N. Y., 1852 - New York City, 1919) |
| Date: |
c. 1890 |
| Medium: |
Original Drypoint Engraving |
| Note: |
Julian Alden Weir 'Julian Weir':
A leading American Impressionist painter, etcher and engraver, Julian
Alden Weir studied art at the National Academy of Design and at the Ecole
des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1873. He then spent several years travelling through
Holland and Spain where he studied the works of Frans Hals and Velasquez.
Julian Alden Weir returned to New York in 1877 and began teaching at both the Art Students
League and the Cooper Union Women's Art School. He was a founding member
of the Society of American Artists and of the Ten American Painters (1897),
along with Twachtman, Childe Hassam, Tarbell and Benson. J. Alden Weir
became an Academician of the National Academy in 1886 and served as its
President from 1915 to 1917. Julian Weir was also a member of the National Institute
of Arts and Letters, the New York Etching Club and the Lotus Club. |
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"Julian Alden Weir went his own experimental way in a number of interesting
and striking landscapes and some portraits. Wrestling with the process
(etching and engraving), he subjugated it to more than one subject or mood.
And when he had aimed at completeness of effect, it was tone he had in
view, not detail of form. He did not specialize; anything was welcome to
his inquiring spirit." *
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During his career J. Alden Weir received such medals and awards as the
Paris Exposition Silver Medal (1889) the Pan American Exposition Gold Medal
(1901), the Gold Medal, National Academy of Design (1906) and the Corcoran
Gold Medal (1914). Today the paintings, etchings and drypoints of Weir
are included in such collections as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., Yale University
Art Gallery, the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Wadsworth Antheaeum, Hartford,
the Carnegie Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. |
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Julian Alden Weir's first experiments with etching date from 1875, when the artist
resided in Paris. The large majority of his etchings and drypoints, however,
were created from 1887 to 1893. In 1888 he bought his own press and installed
it in his farm in Branchville, Connecticut. There he printed most of his
graphic art himself and, apart from several etchings which were commissioned
for large editions by publishers such as the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, his
etchings exist in very small editions. |
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In a 1911 interview, Julian Alden Weir stated, "For a period of about eight years I
was deeply interested in etching and especially drypoint as it was so easy
to carry about in one's pocket a half-dozen plates which would fill up
at odd moments. I gradually got so interested in a certain charm that etchings
only possess, I had my own press and would often pull prints to the early
hours of the morning." **
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One can easily imagine J. A. Weir settling down to his evening glass
of schnapps and becoming intrigued by it and the surrounding shapes, shadows
and tones. Perhaps he then took a copper plate from his pocket and proceeded
to engrave this masterpiece, pulling a small number of impressions to 'the
early hours of the morning'. The San Francisco Museums of Fine Arts and
the Cleveland Museum of Art both list an impression of Julian Alden Weir's
Dutch Schnapps in their permanent collections. |
| Reference: |
* Frank WeitenKampf, American Graphic Art, New York, MacMillan Company,
1924, p. 16. |
| Reference: |
** Florence Griswold Museum, "A Corner in an Etcher's Studio: American
Etchings from the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection", 2004. |
| Size: |
5 1/4 X 3 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Framed & Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
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Price: $895.00 US |
| Condition: |
Printed upon hand-made, laid paper and with margins extending more than
1 inch to the top and 2 inches to the sides and bottom. A deeply printed,
luminous impression and in very fine condition throughout. Dutch Schnapps
represents both a scarce and important, original example of the famous
engraved art of Julian Alden Weir. |
| Subject: |
Julian Alden Weir, Julian Weir, J. A. Weir, Dutch Schnapps,
Still Life, Original Drypoint Engraving, American artists, Impressionist painter, etcher and engraver. |
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