Medium: Color drypoint Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1944 Date finished: 1997 Edition: of 50
Recommended by Sam (Owner & Director): "Liza Jones' Winter Dune is a color drypoint in which she exploits both the delicacy and strength possible with the drypoint process. She effectively captures the coast dune landscape alternating with marshy wetlands. Her mark making is convincing."
Medium: Mezzotint, drypoint Dimensions: 12 x 17 3/4 inches (image) Artist details: American, 1950 Date finished: 2011 Edition: of 26
Recommended by Rebecca (Gallery Manager): "Mary Farrell has created a strong unapologetic, outwardly looking, "in your face" portrait using her mezzotint rocker in a creative and expressive manner. The multiple teeth digging into the plate, forming parallel patterns, as opposed to the rocker's usual technique of covering the whole plate with a velvety looking surface. She has contrasted that deep luxurious surface at the bottom of the image with the stark face peering out."
Medium: Mezzotint, drypoint Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 14 inches (image) Artist details: American, 1950 Date finished: 2010 Edition: of 45
Recommended by Nikki (Art Photographer / Marketing and Exhibitions Specialist):
The volatility and energy behind Farrell’s sepia-inked piece is palpable. The figure’s neck, jugular veins, the collarbones, and jawline read as both vulnerable and strong, simultaneously. The chaos of the branches that cut across her neck break up three-quarters of the image, carrying the intense feelings across the entire scene with its visual movement.
Series: The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky Medium: Drypoint, aquatint, and hand coloring with graphite Artist details: American , 1942 Date finished: 2003 Edition: of 14
Frank Boyden
Uncle Skulky is Confounded by the Results of His Speaking in Tongues
Series: The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky Medium: Drypoint, spitbite, and hand coloring Dimensions: 4 5/8 x 7 inches (image) Signature: Signed Artist details: American , 1942 Date finished: 2003 Edition: of 14
Series: The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky Medium: Drypoint, aquatint and hand coloring Dimensions: 7 x 5 inches (image) Artist details: American , 1942 Date finished: 2003 Edition: of 16
Series: The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky Medium: drypoint Dimensions: 4 1/2 x 5 inches Artist details: American , 1942 Date finished: 2003 Edition: AP
Frank Boyden
Uncle Skulky Appears to James Ensor and Mocks Him With a Fake Nose
Series: The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky Medium: Drypoint, line etching, and spit bite Dimensions: 5 x 4 inches (image) Artist details: American , 1942 Date finished: 2003 Edition: of 15
Series: The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky Medium: Drypoint, spit bite Dimensions: 7 1/8 x 5 inches (image) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1942 Date finished: 2003 Edition: AP
Recommended by Paige(Collections Manager): Frank Boyden’s Uncle Skulky series is equal parts humor, rumination and commentary. I enjoy this piece for the way traditional, angelic gold beams are paired with a deranged skeleton. It’s nearly impossible for me to name just one Uncle Skulky as my favorite, but this one is perhaps the most uplifting.
Frank Boyden
The Resplendent Uncle Skulky Leers From Behind His Curtain of Stars as His Dolled-Up and Pompous Detractors, Like Fetid Bits of Odium, Gather to Mock Him
Series: The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky Medium: Drypoint, aquatint, spit bite, and hand coloring Dimensions: 7 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches (image) Artist details: American , 1942 Date finished: 2003 Edition: of 16
Series: The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky Medium: Drypoint Dimensions: 9 x 4 3/4 inches (image) Artist details: American , 1942 Date finished: 2003 Edition: of 17
Frank Boyden
Once Again Uncle Skulky Loses His Head in the Dark
Series: The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky Medium: Aquatint, drypoint Dimensions: 6 x 7 inches (image) Artist details: American , 1942 Date finished: 2003 Edition: of 14
Frank Boyden
Of All the Hideous Possibilities Skulky Finds Himself Forgotten in a Stinking Symbol-Ridden Reliquary
Series: The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky Medium: Drypoint Dimensions: 7 x 6 inches (image) Artist details: American , 1942 Date finished: 2003 Edition: of 14
Medium: Etching and drypoint Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches (image), 16 x 13 1/2 inches (sheet) Artist details: American, 1942 Date finished: 2002 Edition: of 15
Series: The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky Medium: Drypoint Dimensions: 4 x 3 inches (image) Artist details: American , 1942 Date finished: 2003 Edition: of 12
Medium: Woodcut and drypoint Dimensions: 18 x 11 3/4 inches (image) 25 1/4 x 18 inches (sheet) Artist details: American, 1983 Date Finished: 2013 Edition: 1/6 Signature: Signed
Medium: Woodcut and drypoint Dimensions: 14 x 9 inches (image) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1983 Date Finished: 2014 Edition: 9/9 EV
Recommended by Suzannah (Marketing and Communications Manager):
"There is an aching tenderness and familiarity in Ellen Heck’s portraits of young people. Each child is full of peace and personality, and the combination of woodcut and drypoint mediums produces playful blocks of color and precise feathery lines. I was particularly struck by “Two”, a portrait of a child obscured but looking directly out of the page, holding two hearts against their chest. Worked exclusively in grey tones, the child’s expression shows such freedom and soulfulness, an ineffable emotion and state of being that feels unreachable in adult life. The child does not wonder who they are or how they must be in the world. They simply are themself, and have never considered being otherwise."
Medium: Woodcut and drypoint Dimensions:14 x 9 inches (image) 22 x 15 1/4 inches (sheet) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1983 Date Finished: 2014 Edition: 6/9
Medium: Woodcut and drypoint Dimensions:17 3/4 x 12 inches (image) 25 1/2 x 18 inches (sheet) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1983 Edition: 6/9