"SOLITUDE" (Peck's Beach, New Jersey)

"SOLITUDE" (Peck's Beach, New Jersey)

Edith Loring Peirce (Getchell)

(1855-1940)
American etcher & landscape painter
prominent in the American 19th Century Etching Revival movement

Some Exhibitions & Career notes :

One of only two women in an 1886 book of the 25 leading etchers
in the United States, she was invited in 1887 to exhibit in the groundbreaking exhibition "Women Etchers of America", and accepted into the nearly all male New York Etching Club.

Studies :

Philadelphia School of Design for Women, with tonalist William Sartain
and etcher Peter Moran; Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), with Thomas Eakins
and landscape painter Robert Swain Gifford.

A few of the collections holding her works include :

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Library of Congress,
National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore), Princeton University Museum of Art.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum owns a print from this edition.

Original Etching on laid Japan paper, edition size unknown, un-numbered

Signed in plate lower right : E. L. Peirce

Pencil-signed lower right : Edith Loring Peirce

Image size : 8-3/4" x 5-3/4"
Sheet size : 12-3/4 x 17-1/2"

Condition : good, no staining or foxing;
tape remnant verso at top margin, bottom of sheet (far from image) a 1/2" vertical separation without paper loss

(in protective archival sleeve)
# apr 23002 ......................................................... $395.