Angry Young Dog by John Ihle
Angry Young Dog
John Ihle
Title
Angry Young Dog
Artist
Year
1961
Technique
color intaglio from two plates
Image Size
22 x 19 5/8" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
17 of 30
Annotations
pencil editioned and titled, lower margin
Reference
University of North Dakota Art Galleries, #10; Achenbach 40.
Paper
cream wove Rives
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
JI107
Price
$1,500.00
Description
"Angry Young Dog" was the sixth print John Ihle did in his "Dualism Series", begun in 1960. The series and this print were partly inspired by his reading Harold Lamb's two volume 'History of the Crusades' and in part from the abstract expressionist movement, particularly the works of Franz Kline and Willem De Kooning. Ihle took several of his small, pictograph-like images and exploded them to the metal plate using asphaltum and shellac in a painterly way and additional plates to add the color. Because of the experimental nature of this work impressions will vary in color from print to print, like a monoprint. John Ihle studied printmaking with Francis Chapin at Wesleyan University on the G.I. bill. During the summer of 1949, he attended the University of Iowa specifically to study printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky. However, Ernest Freed, Professor at Bradley University and a Lasansky student, viewed Ihle's graduate show and offered him graduate assistance at Bradley. Ihle became Freed's graduate assistant and earned his M.A. in 1951.