Nature's Trap by Doris Meyer Chatham

Natures Trap by Doris Meyer Chatham

Nature's Trap

Doris Meyer Chatham

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Title

Nature's Trap

 
Artist
Year
1953  
Technique
color lithograph 
Image Size
14 x 20" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
4 of 27  
Annotations
titled in pencil, lower left; dated '53 after signature 
Reference
 
Paper
unidentified cream wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
18452 
Price
$400.00 
Description

In the late 1950s Doris Meyer travelled to France to study printmaking with Stanley William Hayter, who had returned to Paris and re-opened Atelier 17 in 1950. She continued to correspond with Hayter throughout the fifties and sixties.

After Doris and Heinrich Meyer were divorced in early 1955, she started driving to parts unknown and ended up in the Pacific Northwest. In Seattle she studied printmaking at the University of Washington with Glenn Alps who taught her lithography and collagraphy. After graduation she landed a job teaching art at Everett Junior College in Washington.

Doris moved to Marin County, California and began teaching printmaking at the College of Marin where she met and later married the painter Russell Chatham. She experimented with viscosity printing, developed at Atelier 17, and studied independently with Kaiko Moti. Most of her color lithographs, such as "Nature's Trap" were done as experiments and were not printed in large editions, in this case 27 impressions.

 

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