Child study / Arthur Wm. Heintzelman. – Historic Print
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(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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Child study / Arthur Wm. Heintzelman. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Child study / Arthur Wm. Heintzelman.
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A young girl is the sole focus of this etching, titled simply *Child Study*, which the Library of Congress dates to about 1940. The plate is signed in pencil by Arthur William Heintzelman, an American printmaker who worked in the intaglio tradition. Etching was a popular medium for American artists in the 1930s and 1940s, and the fine lines of the needle allowed artists to capture texture and quiet expression in intimate figure studies like this one. Its title signals a focus on observation over narrative, so the viewer is invited to study the child's face and posture closely.
| Created / published | [ca. 1940] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1940.Etchings 1940. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil. |
| Subjects | Girls--1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,263 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-213459 |
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