Totanka ha by Ramon Edward Oeschger

Totanka ha by Ramon Edward Oeschger

Totanka ha

Ramon Edward Oeschger

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Title

Totanka ha

 
Artist
Year
1979  
Technique
color viscosity intaglio 
Image Size
14 1/8 x 13 3/4" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
12 of 13  
Annotations
titled, dated and editioned in pencil 
Reference
 
Paper
heavy, cream CMF watermarked 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
15724 
Price
$650.00 
Description

Ramon Oeschger worked at famed experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17 in Paris in the early 1950s. This print's combination of vivid colors and layered shapes and textures exemplifies the Atelier's color viscosity printmaking technique, discovered by its founder, Stanley William Hayter, and further developed by those who studied with him.

While it's not certain how Oeschger came to title this piece, the word "totanka" (variously spelled "totonka" and "tatanka") is the Lakota word for the male bison, and also describes a spritual way of being and the importance of the bison to the lives of the tribespeople.

Oeschger concentrated primarily on printmaking, specifically etching and engraving, as well as the collagraph process. He was awarded a purchase prize at the National Print Exhibition, 14th Biennial at the Brooklyn Museum. Find more on the artist in the biography linked above.

 

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