The Marvelous Mountain

 

Roi George Partridge

  1888 - 1984 (biography)

1915  

etching on copper 

10 1/4 x 15 15/16" platemark 

pencil, lower center margin; signed in plate, lower center edge, both signed "Roy Partridge" 

57 

titled and pencil editioned; annotated in artist's hand, lower left corner: "printed to 50 prints" (regular edition) 

White 77 

delicate simile-vellum 

published 

artist 

23205 

SOLD

According to cataloguer Anthony White, this was the first etching Partridge made after returning from Paris to the state of Washington where he was born in 1888, before it became a state. He planned an edition of 50 but added 7 additional prints before destroying the copper plate. This view is of Mount Rainier in the Cascade Volcanic Arc of Washington, in which he features the beginning of his signature etching lines, hundreds of short, parallel lines at slightly different angles that create the hard facets of the rocks, the glacier, and the sky. Mount Rainier is a volcanic mountain southeast of Seattle which rises to a height of over 14,000 feet, towering above the Cascade crest. The mountain contains three named summits and twenty nine named glacial features. Rainier is often locally referred to as "The Mountain".