The Rainmaker

 

Bernard Childs

  1910 - 1985 (biography)

1955  

color power engraving 

6 7/8 x 12 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower left 

4 of 35  

titled, lower center; dated after signature 

 

cream wove Arches 

published 

artist 

MASC110 

$2,500.00 

In the 1950s Childs developed an abstract picture language, in which he worked with archetypical signs and symbols and with the methods of surrealistic automatism. Childs used electrically powered tools to work directly on his plates, a technique he developed while working at Atelier 17 in Paris.

These tools, in combination with Childs' interest in the image possibilities found in celestial and atmospheric events, lent themselves to an intriguing, stacatto patterning not found with the traditional scraper, burin, or scribe to which intaglio art is mostly relegated.