Thomas Brownell Eldred, (American 1903 – 1993) Untitled color etching with aquatint on heavy wove off-white paper, signed "T.E." in pencil below the image.
Size: sheet 11 1/2 x 9; image 6 7/8 x 5 1/4.
Condition: very good. A strong, well-inked impression with wide margins. There is light staining and mottling in the margins, some slightly visible within the mat window at the lower left. See photos
Thomas Eldred, painter and printmaker, studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later hitchhiked to New York where he attended the Art Students League, studying under Thomas Hart Benton and Guy Pene DuBois. Between the 1933 and 1938, Eldred taught at the Brooklyn Museum of Art under the WPA Art Program. In Brooklyn, Eldred met Werner Drewes, and later worked at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 in New York and then in Paris. His work is included in the Atelier 17 exhibition catalogs of the early 1950’s. This print shows the influence on Eldred of Drewes and Hayter, but he also produced notable prints in the surrealist and Ash Can styles. (Adapted from bio at Annex Gallery,)
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