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Autumn Lace by Cornelis Botke

Autumn Lace by Cornelis Botke

Autumn Lace

Cornelis Botke

Title

Autumn Lace

 
Artist

Cornelis Botke

  1887 - 1954 (biography)
Year
c. 1942  
Technique
etching 
Image Size
9 x 12 1/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil signed, lower right 
Edition Size
proof, from outside the regular edition of 75 
Annotations
pencil titled, lower left; signed in the plate, lower left corner 
Reference
 
Paper
antique-white wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
23334 
Price
SOLD
Description

California printmaker Cornelis Botke did this delicate landscape etching around 1942. The location is probably around Santa Paula, California, near Santa Barbara, where the artist and his wife Jessie Arms Botke had a ranch.

A rock-lined stream flows slowly at the lower right of the composition. A sycamore has moved away from its progenitor in order to find light and has created a natural visual 'bridge' across the water. It is Autumn and the trees have lost most of their leaves, a few manage to hang on for a while more. Botke uses his etching needle like a pencil, detailing the lacy branches of the trees in the forground to the mountains in the distance.