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Albion Harris Bicknell (1837-1915) etching

Sold for $60 at East Coast Books on Mar 25, 2021.

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ALBION HARRIS BICKNELL (1837-1915) American artist, born in Turner, Maine, he moved to Boston and studied art at the Lowell Institute around 1855. From about 1860 to1862, he studied at the cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Thomas Couture. In 1864 Bicknell established a studio in Boston and began exhibiting at the Boston Athenaeum annually. He helped found the Allston Club in 1866. After moving to Malden, Massachusetts, in 1875, he began experimenting with the monotype process. By 1881, he had completed at least fifty such prints, and in that year he exhibited at the J. Eastman Chase Gallery in Boston and the Union League Club in New York. His monotypes were also shown at the Salmagundi Sketch Club at the National Academy of Design in 1882. Offered here is a original Untitled [Boat of Hay], Etching. c1885. Signed in the plate, lower left. Full margins. Fine impression. Image approx. 5-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. in. VG.

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