In the Street of Life and Death, Segovia

 

Charles B. Keeler

  1882 - 1964 (biography)

c. 1927  

aquatint and etching 

9 7/16 x 12" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

"No. 1" from a probably edition of 50 

inscribed in pencil along lower sheet edge: In the Street of Life and Death, (calle de la Muerte y Vida, Segovia, Spain) 

Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980, #22, illustrated page 42; exhibited at the 18th Annual Exhibition of the Chicago Society of Etchers at the AIC, 1928, cat. no. 124 

antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

20750 

SOLD

Impressions of "In the Street of Life and Death, Segovia" were illustrated in 1928 in Fine Prints of the Year, An Exhibition of Etchings with the Chicago Society of Etchers, and the annual exhibition of the California Society of Printmakers in Los Angeles.

Charles Keeler had studied printmaking with Chicago printmaker Bertha Jacques. Keeler worked in almost pure aquatint, with just a few etched lines, just using the tones that the aquatint process creates.

In 1980 an impression of this image was included in "Los Angeles Prints, 1883-1980", mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The catalog for the exhibition illustrates this image on page 42 (number 22).

"Calle de la Vida y la Muerte", also called "The Street of Life and Death", is off the Plaza de Somorrastro where the Academia de Artilleria (the Artillery Academy) is located in Segovia, Spain.