Print of the Day!! Mon, July 17, 2023 is by Doris Seidler (1912-2010): "Arkhaios XVII"; dimensional intaglio; 1965; 11/20. Available for sale.

Print of the Day!! Monday, July 17, 2023 is by Atelier 17 woman printmaker Doris Seidler (1912-2010).

"Arkhaios XVII" is a relief intaglio, an open-bite etching with scraping on a copper plate by New York Atelier 17 printmaker Doris Seidler (1912-2010). The platemark measures 13-3/4 x 16-7/8 inches and is pencil signed, titled, editioned "11/20" and dated "65" in the lower margin. It is pencil annotated by the artist in the lower right margin "Coll. of Post College, L.I. / Smithsonian Inst. Wash D.C. LC / U.S.I.A." This impression was hand-printed using an off-white ink by the artist and Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero in New York on a heavy ivory Van Gelder wove paper that measures 20-1/4 x 23 inches. The gallery inventory number for this work is DOS184.

This scarce, AbEx intaglio by British-born Atelier 17 printmaker Doris Seidler (1912-2010) is available from the gallery for $2,500.00. Contact the gallery with any condition or other questions.

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Most of the printmakers who worked at at Atelier 17 were concentrating on immediacy, spontaneity combined with various intaglio techniques to create the image. For this intaglio Seidler used a combination of open-bite etching and scraping to achieve a broad variety of lines, tones, and textures, the result being this Brutalist-like, dimensional composition.

Doris Seidler was one of a number of printmakers, many of whom were women, that worked at Hayter's Atelier 17 in New York, a workshop devoted to intaglio experimentation at all levels. One of the techniques she experimented with was using acid on copper to eat away the plate and create a dimensional, tonal surface which she printed adding only a gray-white ink. The overall effect is like incised Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Seidler was born Doris Falkoff in London, England in 1912. Little is recorded of her early life but it's known that her father owned a leather goods shop in London's West End. In her early twenties, Doris married Bernard Seidler, an international fur broker, and they lived in London for the first few years of their marriage. With the French and English defeat at Dunkirk, England was in peril of invasion from Germany and Bernard made the decision to emigate to the United States and move the family out of the country. Bernard, Doris, and their son David sailed for New York in 1940.

While Bernard continued to work as a fur broker, Doris' world widened with her discovery of Hayter's Atelier 17. Seidler had been an amateur artist in England before her marriage and later, in her husband's business absences, Hayter accepted her as a participant in his wartime printmaking classes in New York in 1940, exposing her to the experimental approachs of Atelier 17.

Stanley William Hayter, also an evacuee from war-torn Europe, moved his famed Atelier 17 from Paris to the New School in New York and Doris worked there as a student, learning the techniques of printmaking. The Seidler family returned to England in 1945 to find their homeland devasted by bombing, and life for Londoners depressed. Later in 1945 she emigrated to the US in 1948 and returned to working in the New York studio into the 1950s.

The stark, war torn landscape of England moved Seidler to record her observations; among the works produced at this depicted the heavily damaged Coventry Cathedral, a 1951 lucite engraving titled 'Blitzed Gothic'. After three years in England, the Seidlers immigrated to New York.

As an associate of Hayter's she learned not only the diverse techniques of gravure, but a philosophy centered on Hayter's overriding principle, "adequate motive", which meant that superb skills are not enough.

Doris's son, David Seidler, went on to become a screenwriter, winning an Oscar for his screenplay "The King's Speech", based in his own experiences with stuttering, which developed from the trauma he suffered when the family came to America by ship during WWII.

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