The print bears a printed dedication, in the artist's hand, centered directly below the image: "This work is dedicated to Lois Porter for her contributions to education." And, in pencil, "Emil"

Perfect for an educator's office, den or library. Delightful for a child's room.
$ 275. I-793-T

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Original , Color, Stone Lithograph
"An American Legend"
by Emil Weddige - (1907-2001)
Image: 26" x 21"
Sheet: 30" x 23"

Pencil signed, titled & numbered: #50 of 100

This colorful and delightful take on the old, one-room school house -- in truth, an "American Legend" -- is a lifetime print by Emil Weddige, master of the stone lithograph. It was acquired directly from the Weddige estate, and is in excellent condition, having never been framed or matted.


Pencil numbered and titled:
50/100
An American Legend


Pencil signed by the artist:
Emil Weddige

Detail

PARTIAL LISTING OF STUDIOS

Studio Matthiew AG, Switzerland
Bank Street, New York
Desjobert Press, Paris
Art Estampe, Paris
The Fishy Whale Press, Milwaukee
Studio Impressions, Barcelona
Tamarind, Los Angeles
The Makor Press, New York
Stein Road Studio, Ann Arbor

PARTIAL LISTING OF COLLECTIONS

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Detroit Instuute of Art
Cincinnati Museum of Art
Cranbrook Academy Museum, Bloomfield, MI
New York Public Library
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
National Gallery, Washington, D. C.
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Coste House Gallery, Alberta, Canada
Australian National Gallery, Canbera, Australia
Biblioteque National, Paris
Pontoise Museum, Pontoise, France

Lithography is "a people's art, something they can afford. The older I got, the more I believed that art belonged to the people."
Emil Weddige

BACKGROUND: Emil Weddige was born of American parents in Sandwich, Ontario, Canada in 1907. He showed artistic talent early on, and was fond of saying, "I learned to talk by hearing adults say the name of what I had just drawn."

He received his BA at Eastern Michigan University in 1904, later studying at the Art Students League in New York. under Morris Kantor, and at Woodstock, under Emil Ganso. It was with Ganso that he was introduced to lithography, the medium with which he was to become most closely identified.

In 1937 he joined the University of Michigan Art Department as an instructor, later receiving his Master of Design,
In 1949 he established a studio along the Montparnasse in Paris, where he was to work, off and on, all his life. He subsequently accepted a fellowship at the prestigious Tamarind Lithography workshop in California.

In 1957, he was appointed professor of art at UM, and, in 1974, professor emeritus. He retired that year, to devote himself to his art and his chosen medium, stone lithography.

Emil Weddige is widely acknowledged as one of the pioneers in the rebirth of color lithography. He literally 'wrote the book' on the subject/ "Lithography." published in 1966, is regarded as the definitive text on lithography by most colleges and universities in the United States.

Stone lithography is a very demanding and almost totally unforgiving medium. "To lay between eight and 12 colors, one over the other, on a single piece of paper, as does Weddige, drawing, inking, printing and cleaning the stone, then repeating the process ad infinitum, to excruciatingly close tolerances, requires a degree of stamina, dedication and finesse that is seldom encountered in this increasingly lackadaisical world of ours." (James Auer, art critic for the Milwaukee Journal)

"...in 1975, I labeled Emil Weddige as America's most prominent lithographer ... looking over his work and lifetime, there is no one to surpass the dedication and excellence of his life and work ... he paints for the masses, but the work is for the most sophisticated." (Roland Poska, director, Fishy Whale Press)

"In an era in which the meaning of the term 'original print' has been twisted out of all semantic reason, a signed and numbered lithograph by Emil Weddige remains the very essence of the personal artistic statement ... heartfelt, handcrafted, unique and ultimately irreplaceable." (James Auer, art critic for the Milwaukee Journal)

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