Untitled

Object NameEtching

Artist / Maker Jay Norwood Darling (American, 1876 - 1962)

MediumEtching on paper

Dimensions8 1/2" x 11 1/4" (21.5cm x 28.5cm)

ClassificationsPrints and Printing Plates

Credit LineGift of the J. N. "Ding" Darling Foundation. In the permanent collection, Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

Object numberUM82.140

Status

Not on view

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Label TextNoted in "The Prints of J.N. Darling" as being by Gordon Meaney. Jay Darling never did any engravings, which is an intaglio technique involving cutting each line into the copy plate by hand with a tool called a burin. The line quality of an engraving line differs markedly from an etched line, and the technique demands a certain amount of skill and a great amount of patience. Gordon Meaney, who was much more interested in larning about printmaking techniques, per se, had been in contact with a number of distinguished printmakers such as Samuel Chamberlain, John Taylor Arms, and Mauricio Lasansky, for all of whom he had done some edition printing. Lasansky had done quite a bit of engraving, and perhaps through his example, Meaney tried engraving a few plates. The Hound Dog print referred to by Darling in his letter to Meaney (quoted in part in the section on Darling as an etcher) was an engraving, as is this print of three mallards. The thin copper plate is extant. This impression is printed on an unwatermarked buff laid paper.

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