Description:
River; Pier, Cityscape
Label Text:
Platt trained as a painter at the National Academy of Design in New York and learned to etch with Stephen Parrish in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1880. He later turned to landscape design and architecture, for which he is best known. Parrish taught Platt the basics of etching, an intaglio process much enjoyed by artists who could draw directly on a copper plate prepared to be impervious to acid. When placed in acid, the acid eats into the exposed metal. After inking, the plate is printed. Artists had the option of creating limited editions of prints or having the plate steel faced for editions of hundreds of impressions. This view of the Connecticut River was probably made near its mouth. There is an unidentified town in the distance; the focus is on the calm water, pier, and sailboat in the foreground.
Georgia Barnhill, 2014
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