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, 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.

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."