Word: zorn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn of the century, it was an honor to pose for Sweden's Anders Zorn. Among the sitters for Etcher Zorn, a mountainous, walrus-mustached fellow, were: William Howard Taft, Grover Cleveland, Auguste Rodin, Paul Verlaine...
...Zorn's female models were usually anonymous, but they became equally famous. He posed them by the sea or in bed -with snapshot casualness-and etched them in scratchy fishnets of sunlight or lamplight. Zorn's shy nudes found their way into the portfolios of print connoisseurs, and still adorn the paneled shadows of many a club...
Last week 154 Zorn etchings (the biggest show of his work ever) hung in Chicago's Lakeside Press Gallery. But Zorn's claim to greatness, which still seemed assured when he died in 1920, seemed a lot remoter now. Just one Chicago critic bothered to write up the show...
...destroying their plates after they have printed the limited number. Unlike the great printmakers of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, who sold their prints for a song (Hogarth: 25? to $1.75; Goya: 30?; Dürer: 80? to $2.40), modern printmakers sometimes get as much as $100, occasionally (Zorn, Cameron, Benson, McBey) two or three times that much. But the average good print price seldom exceeds...