Cogollos - Vega (Spain)

 

Charles B. Keeler

  1882 - 1964 (biography)

c. 1927  

aquatint 

11 1/2 x 14 7/8" platemark 

pencil signed, lower right 

No. 1 from an edition of probably 50 

pencil titled in lower left corner of the paper 

LC 1, illustrated on page 237; exhibited at the 18th Annual Exhibition of the Chicago Society of Etchers at the AIC, 1928, cat. no. 123 

ivory wove 

 

artist 

20761 

$300.00 

A stunning, atmospheric piece by Charles Keeler, whose landscapes and intimate city scenes are often prime examples of the aquatint technique. Tonality is the key to capturing the depth of the Vega de Granada valley in southeast Spain. In the distance, seen across the sloping, cultivated hills of Cogollos Vega, is the formidable shape of the Peñón de la Mata, one of the highest peaks along the Sierra de Cogollos mountain range.