Shuksan (Mount Shuksan)

 

Roi George Partridge

  1888 - 1984 (biography)

1927  

etching from a copper plate 

11 7/8 x 14 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower center margin; in plate, lower right 

120 

"25.00 Selected for reproduction in the Fine Prints of the Year 1927" in pencil along lower sheet edge; dated in plate, lower right. 

White 181; Fine Prints of the Year 1927, plate 89; listed as no. 63 in the exhibition catalog: "The Nature of Collecting: The Early 20th Century Fine Art Collection of Roger Epperson" 

antique-white laid 

i/ii 

artist 

CAAL181 

SOLD

This large etching is from the estate of the noted California collector, Roger Epperson. It was exhibited in the 2012 tribute exhibition "The Nature of Collecting. The Early 20th Century Fine Art Collection of Roger Epperson" mounted at Saint Mary's College Museum of Art.

"Shuksan" is a mountain in Partridge's home state of Washington, located Whatcom County near the Canadian border. It is one of the artist's most successful and popular prints and was exhibited widely. It is done in 2 states, the first being an edition of 120, such as this impression. The second state has the date in the lower corner removed.