Abe On Halloween 1962 Printmaking By Jerry Di Falco

Year:

Medium:

Etching Print

Size - (USA):

12 W x 16 H x 1 D (inches)

Size - (metric):

30.5 W x 40.6 H x 2.5 D (centimeters)

Theme:

Humor

Edition:

Original

Artwork ID:

618593

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Artwork Info Sheet (PDF)

Artwork Description:

THE PRICE OF THIS MATTED ETCHING INCLUDES A FRAME THAT MEASURES 16 INCHES HIGH BY 11 INCHES WIDE. THE PAINTED BLACK, WOOD AND GLASS FRAME INCLUDES AN ACID FREE, WHITE MAT. MOREOVER, THE ARTWORK ARRIVES WIRED AND READY TO HANG ON YOUR WALL. This work is Print Number ONE of FIVE in the 3rd Edition. This etching is based on a 1962, black and white snapshot executed by the artist’s mother in Camden, New Jersey. It features the artist at age nine, dressed as Abe Lincoln, in preparation for the Sacred Heart School Halloween Parade. All FOUR editions, of five etchings each, were hand printed and published by the artist at The Center for Works on Paper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is etching number ONE of FIVE from the THIRD of FOURTH edition. The work, executed on a zinc plate that required four Nitric Acid baths, was printed on a free standing Charles Brand press. DiFalco used the etching techniques of intaglio, aquatint, drypoint and Chine colle. Media include a blend of oil base etching inks, RivesBFK white paper, and Thai mulberry bark infused with Japanese Kozo fibers and treated with methylcellulose. The image size corresponds to the etching plate size, which measured six inches wide by nine inches high, or 15.240cm by 22.860 cm. The framed and matted etching measures 12 inches wide by 16 inches high, or 27.940cm by 38.100cm.

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