Detail: Fountain of Energy, Panama Pacific Exposition

 

Eric Spencer Macky

  1880 - 1958 (biography)

1915  

drawing in pencil, heightened with white crayon. (Sold with 7321, a monotype of the subject.) 

10 5/8 x 8 1/4" image 

unsigned 

1 of 1 unique 

 

"Singular Impression" 1977, page 105 

gray wove western 

 

artist 

7322 

SOLD

This drawing was a study for a color monotype by Macky of a detail of A. Stirling Calder's Fountain of Energy at the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The drawing and monotype were shown together at the 1917 California Society of Etchers exhibition. The drawing is sold with the monotype, inventory number 7321, which was exhibited in the 1997 National Museum of American Art exhibition "Singular Impressions, the Monotype in America". it is illustrated in the “Singular Impressions” catalogue by Joann Moser, Smithsonian Press, 1997; figure 104, page 105. See our biography link above to find more information on the artist.