Heralds of Inquiry

 

Leonard Edmondson

  1916 - 2002 (biography)

1951  

mixed technique color intaglio 

11 x 13 1/2" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

A/P 

pencil titled and dated in lower margin 

illustrated as plate 26 in Leonard Edmondson: Art of Discovery, see pges 44 and 45 

ivory wove with 1590 LANA watermark 

published 

artist 

GAJA102 

$2,000.00 

Heralds of Inquiry was created within Edmondson’s first year of working in etching. He sent an impression to the Brooklyn Museum Print National Exhibition where it won an award. In his essay for Leonard Edmondson: Art of Discovery, David Acton wrote of this intaglio: “He used fewer, more transparent colors for this print, manipulating films of ink to suggest imaginary forms floating before a smoky ground… Edmondson’s prints seem to represent a shallow envelope of space in which shapes and forms float, bumping gently into each other, or sliding past in a silent kaleidoscopic ballet.”