Soledad
ca. 1930
4 " x 4 7/8" Framed: 13 7/8" x 14 1/8"
Works on Paper, aquatint
4 " x 4 7/8" Framed: 13 7/8" x 14 1/8"
Works on Paper, aquatint
Signed in pencil lower right; initaled in plate lower left
Titled and numbered in pencil lower left below image “15/3 Soledad”
Titled and numbered in pencil lower left below image “15/3 Soledad”
Hanscom became a master of intaglio printmaking techniques and her mastery of the aquatint process is apparent in her small pueblo scene ‘Soledad.’ This evocative, soft focus scene offers a counterpoint to Charles M. Capps’s aquatint of the church at Las Trampas, in which the employment of etching gives a tighter, almost photographic aspect to the print.
About the Artist
(1890 - 1975)
Gertrude Fandrich Hanscom was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, and spent most of her life in New York and California. She studied at Syracuse University in New York and at Scripps College, the Otis Institute and UCLA in California. She also took private classes with the noted western landscapist Sam Hyde Harris. She was a member of numerous artists’ organizations, including the Society of American Graphic Artists and the California Art Club. Hanscom became a master of intaglio printmaking techniques and her mastery of the aquatint process is apparent in her small pueblo scene ‘Soledad.’
