In the Street of Life and Death, Segovia

 

Charles B. Keeler

  1882 - 1964 (biography)

c. 1927  

etching 

9 1/2 x 10 9/16" platemark 

unsigned 

trial proof before aquatint 

inscribed in pencil along lower sheet edge: Trial Proof - Not for sale; also inscribed verso: Trial proof (2nd state) 

Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980, #22, illustrated page 42; exhibited at the 18th Annual Exhibition of the Chicago Society of Etchers at the AIC, 1928, cat. no. 124 

ivory laid 

trial before aquatint, second state 

artist 

20760 

$350.00 

Impressions of "In the Street of Life and Death, Segovia" were exhibited in 1928 in Fine Prints of the Year, An Exhibition of Etchings with the Chicago Society of Etchers, and the annual exhibition of the California Society of Printmakers in Los Angeles. In 1980, it was included in Los Angeles Prints, 1883-1980, mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Keeler had studied with Bertha Jacques and worked in almost pure aquatint, with just a few etched lines.

Calle de la Vida y la Muerte, also called The Street of Life and Death is off the Plaza de Somorrastro where the Academia de Artillería (the Artillery Academy) is located in Segovia, Spain.