Comp with Etched Fragment

Doris Seidler

Doris Seidler left England and arrived in the United States in 1940. She began to study printmaking with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in New York and spent almost ten years working at the atelier. Much of Seidler’s earlier work was delicately rendered, if explosive, meditating on war, religion, and the fractured landscape of post-World War II England. Well into her ninth decade, Seidler began combining torn pieces of her drawings and prints with beautiful scraps of handmade paper. She created a number of elegant and beautifully balanced original works on paper. Comp with Etched Fragment is an excellent example of her collage work.