Crusader

 

John Ihle

  1925 - 2002 (biography)

1960  

color etching from two zinc plates with color a la poupee and relief roll-up 

16 7/8 x 15 5/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

color trial proof, outside edition of 40 

titled & dated in pencil 

North Dakota 5 (illustrated in color); Achenbach 1972.57.23 

heavy ivory Arches 

proof 

artist 

20723 

SOLD

"Crusader" was the first print Ihle did in his "Dualism Series", beginning in 1960. The series and this print was partly inspired by his reading Charles Lamb's 'Crusaders' and in part from the abstract expressionist movement, particularly the works of Franz Kline and William DeKooning.

Ihle took several of his small, pictograph-like images and exploded them to the metal plate using asphaltum and shellac in a painterly way and a second plate to add the color.

Because of the experimental nature of this work impressions will vary in color from print to print.