SilenceTTc.1885, Etching.
Edition not stated. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left; titled in the plate, upper left.
Image size 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (149 x 200 mm); sheet size 8 1/2 x 10 inches (216 x 254 mm).
A fine, rich impression, in dark sepia ink, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margins (2 1/8 to 3 7/16 inches), in excellent condition.
This impression exhibited at the Parrish Art Museum, The American Painter-Etcher Movement, 1984; and reproduced in the exhibition catalog, The American Painter-Etcher Movement, Maureen C. O'Brien and Patricia C. F. Mandel, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, New York.
...Other than the surreal oils of Elihu Vedder, it is difficult to think of any other American work executed by 1881 that so completely anticipates the formal abstraction and symbolic content of what is today termed "modern" art. Comparisons between F.S.Church and Odilon Redon are irresistible given the mutual adoption of "fantasy" as their "guardian angel" and their admiration of and artistic involvement with the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. ...Silence may be one of the few examples in American Art in which the artistic concept and formal execution of an American artist actually anticipated "a sound wave" later felt in Europe. –from the above noted exhibition catalog
Ex-collection Kennedy Galleries.
SOLD
