Bill Ritchie art in Maryland
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Ann Shafer Collection
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"Wave Square School"
Provenance: 1979 Intaglio printed from etched zinc plate. Image 12 X 9 in on 15 1/2 X 10 1/2 in Van Gelder Zonen (Natural, buff) paper. One of 76 impressions, including a special collector's edition published by Davidson Galleries. See also the Dan Mayer, Jundt Art Gallery, and Clint Pehrson Collections.
About Ann Shafer: Consultant, storyteller and print evangelist. See her on Linkedin and her projects page. She bought the print for her husband. When an art valuator asked me for information (she was working for another patron who owned the same print from Davidson's Gallery), and I saw Ann featuring the print on her blog, I asked her. She kindly responded, "Hi Bill. Sam had the print priced at $325. I bought it for my husband who loves to work with wood but is seriously challenged when it comes to measuring and making things square. It's a charming work. All best to you. - Ann"
Artist's comment: The Wave Square had evolved from my "Squares" series (originating in a distorted T-Square like those that engineers and architects used t have on their drafting tables). At one point I used an architect's program to give me hundreds of views of the wave square, drawn on a computer plotter. Some of these views became the masters for a soft-ground etching for the print, "Wave Square School". The plotter drew on thin tracing paper, so when I overlaid them I could see several layers of the image.
Later, I wanted to create a mass of wave squares based on an experience I had at a fish hatchery. Looking in deep water I could see nothing, then I realized all I could see were thousands of fishes, a school. Like that school, I imagined thousands of T-squares in deep water.
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