The Ghost Pine

 

William Seltzer Rice

  1873 - 1963 (biography)

c. 1940  

drypoint with sandpaper ground 

8 1/8 x 6 5/8" platemark 

signed, lower right 

perhaps 5 imps 

titled, lower left 

E-Ct4 

antique-white wove 

 

 

RRT787 

SOLD

In this drypoint print, Rice used sandpaper ground, which is a textured aquatint surface made by pressing sandpaper down on a hard wax ground. He used it to his advantage in creating tone and dimension to bring the tree forward, and the mountains and sky as atmosphere.