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Villefranche

Villefranche

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Bertha E. Jaques

Largely self-taught, Bertha E. Jaques wrote an influential instruction manual on the printmaking technique of etching in 1912 and helped popularize the medium in the United States. Jaques lived and worked in Chicago, where she visited the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and saw a display of etchings that inspired her to pursue the method. Her husband, a surgeon, made her etching tools from surgical instruments and helped her convert a used commercial printing press for her home studio. In 1910, she was one of the founders of the Chicago Society of Etchers. Jaques became known for her botanical prints and her landscapes, both of the United States and from her foreign travels.
Artist
Bertha E. Jaques
(American, 1863 - 1941)
Title
Villefranche
Date
1914
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
8 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. Image
Credit
Gift of John C. Hawley in memory of Mary Oakley Hawley
Accession No.
52.6.53
Classification
Prints
Geography
United States

Related

Mary Oakley Hawley (Madison, WI); by 1952, John C. Hawley [husband of Mary Oakley Hawley] (Madison, WI/Delray Beach, FL) gifted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; 1967, transfer to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Art Center. "Americans At Home and Abroad: Graphic Arts, 1855-1975." Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, 1976. pp. 20, 34, no. 17

  • Americans at Home and Abroad: Graphic Arts 1855-1975 : Elvehjem Art Center, 5/1/1976–6/27/1976

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