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Sierra slopes / RP. – Vintage Print

Sierra slopes / RP., [ca. 1922] — historic print
Sierra slopes / RP., [ca. 1922]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Sierra Nevada snowfields are the particular subject here, with the high slopes rendered in the fine, controlled lines of an etching. Roi Partridge, an American printmaker active in California in the 1920s, made many such landscapes of the western mountains, and the catalog raisonné by Anthony R. White (1988) lists this plate as number 134 in his work. The print dates to about 1922, when the Sierra was drawing growing numbers of artists and visitors eager to record its rugged terrain. Its focus on snow and mountain forms reflects a broader interest among American printmakers of the period in wilderness as a subject in its own right.

Created / published[ca. 1922]
Medium1 print : etching.
GenreLandscape prints 1920-1930.Etchings 1920-1930.
NotesGraphic art of Roi Partridge : a catalogue raisonné / Anthony R. White. Los Angeles, CA : Hennessy & Ingalls, 1988, no. 134.
SubjectsMountains--1920-1930. Snow--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,255 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172010

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