Word: etchers
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...Author Max White fluttered the critics with a first novel (Tiger Tiger) about the life and lively loves of a fictional U.S. artist. Now he has romanticized the life and livelier loves of a historical tartar-Francisco José Goya y Lucientes, Spain's famed 18th-Century etcher and painter...
When Paul-César Helleu was young, in the '70s, he ran away from a comfortable Paris home, studied at the Beaux Arts, made friends with Sargent. He painted cathedral interiors and scenes of Versailles in autumn, reached his greatest renown as an etcher of pretty women in all seasons. He led a pleasant, quasi-boulevardier life, was happy with his wife in a satiny apartment near the Bois de Boulogne...
Associated American Artists Galleries also found the buying public's taste turning more conventional. Best selling A.A.A. item so far: another picture of ducks by Etcher Churchill Ettinger...
...angular bleakness of rigor mortis. Three of his pages had to be done over because of small typographical errors. It took him two years of patient etching and hand-printing to turn out 60 copies. If he manages to sell half of them (at $200 a copy), Etcher von Ripper figures he can clear $1,500. Not much for two years of eyestraining labor, but, says von Ripper, whose ways with money are as fantastic as his etchings, "That will give me something to go along...
Nearly a century ago in England, an etcher named W. M. Egley Jun. covered an etching plate with cheery, squiggly figures, inscribed it: "A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year to You," sent impressions to his friends. So far as is known, this was the first Christmas card. Today, in the U. S. alone, Christmas cards have become a $30,000,000-a-year industry. Artistically most cards are loathsome, crawling with tinsel, Scottie dogs and bilious greenery, but good U. S. artists have begun to muscle in on the trade...