Totem

 

Doris Seidler

  1912 - 2010 (biography)

1973  

collagraph 

19 13/16 x 4 15/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

4/X 

pencil titled, dated, and editioned 

 

antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

DOS135 

$2,200.00 

Doris had been an amateur artist before her marriage and, in her husband's absences, Hayter accepted her as a pupil in his wartime art classes, teaching the approach of Atelier 17, and then in the New York studio, which he had opened at the end of the war. In pupillage to Hayter she learned not only the diverse techniques of gravure, but a philosophy centred on Hayter's overriding principle, "adequate motive", which means that superb skills are not enough.