Man, Animals, and Space

Glen Earl Alps

Glen Alps studied with Mauricio Lasansky in Iowa in 1947, where he learned many of the experimental intaglio techniques that were being taught there in the 1940s.

This early (1948) abstraction utelizes line etching, engraving, soft-ground etching and aquatint to create rich patterns, values and tones. The viewers eye moves from one element in the composition to another, each of interest, and then back to the whole composition, where everything comes together.

Alps' early interest in experimental imagery led Alps to the method he coined the word for, "collagraph", which involved collaging elements toa rigid plate, inking and printing them from both the intaglio (beneath the surface), the surface, and the high relief (above the surface), resulting in a print with a third dimension.