Of Vikings and Beasts

 

Adrienne Cullom

  1938 - PRESENT (biography)

1973  

engraving 

17 7/8 x 17 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right in margin 

18 of 25  

pencil titled and dated after the signature 

 

ivory Arches wove 

published 

artist 

23477 

$950.00 

According to Cullom, Of Vikings and Beasts is pure engraving; she only used engraving tools and #7 was her favorite tool. Each plate would take a couple of years to complete as she could only work in her studio once the children were in bed. The rich lushness of the black ink is a result of the artist using French Charbonnel black ink and handwiping the plate before printing it on her press. Adrienne Cullom, printmaker, painter, and fiber artist, was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 27, 1938. She studied at the Atlanta Art Institute in Georgia from 1956 to 1959 and, following her graduation, she traveled to Austria where she attended Vienna's Akademie fur Angewandt Kunst for one year. Receiving a scholarship from the French Government, she went to Paris, where she studied at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 from 1961 to 1962. Cullom met fellow printmaker Sergio Gonzales-Tornero at Atelier 17 and he followed her to Atlanta. They married, moved to a small railroad-flat apartment in Greenwich Village in New York, and raised a family. In New York, they continued their pursuit of printmaking by working at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in lower Manhattan. In 1968, they moved into a house in Mahopac, New York, acquired from Sergio’s publisher in exchange for prints, and set up their print shop.