Mughkas and the Hartebeest

 

John Ihle

  1925 - 2002 (biography)

1959 / 1960 

color intaglio, an etching from two zinc plates with color added a la poupee and relief roll-up 

13 3/4 x 21 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

9 of 200  

pencil titled and editioned, dated 1960 after the signature 

Achenbach, Prints by John Ihle, cat. no. 30 

ivory wove 

II/II 

IGAS 

25125 

$500.00 

Ihle worked as an illustrator at the Chicago Museum of Natural History in 1950-1 where he developed his "Pictograhic Writing", evident in this print. 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.