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DAY
& NIGHT
 A
celebration of
the art of
Black & White
Printmaking
finds its purest and arguably its finest expression
in black ink on white paper. The simile to night and
day has been made before. Degas’ projected journal
of original prints was to be called La Jour
et La Nuit ("Day & Night").
A German graphic periodical published in the early
years of the twentieth century was entitled Licht
und Schatten ("Light & Shade").
Like these illustrious predecessors I have attempted
to put together fine examples of monochrome printmaking.
The
catalogue entries celebrate the different qualities
inherent in the various print processes and the rich
variety of the resulting prints. While striking contrasts
are seen between black in densely worked areas and
white in unworked areas, there are also a wide variety
of half tones revealed in the whole scale of greys
between pure black and white. The subtle rich diversity
of the different shades of black ink, depending on
the admixture of pigment, sometimes leaning towards
brown, or to blue or green or grey is complemented
by their interaction with the diversity of textures
and colours (ranging from white to off-white, cream,
ivory and buff or grey) of different papers.
Additionally,
wherever possible, I have sort out prints whose subject
matter could be interpreted as a particular time of
day; another graphic theme with a long ancestry. The
catalogue begins with an early 17th century set of
engravings of The Four Times of Day – Dawn, Noon,
Evening and Night. The prints in the rest of the catalogue
are grouped chronologically within appropriate sections
subtitled 'Day', 'Daytime Interiors', 'Twilight', 'Night',
'Night-time Interiors'.
Published
1989
52 pages, 172 prints described, 175 b/w illustrations
(UK Price: £7, International orders: £10)
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Artists
included in the catalogue:
- Abbey
E.A.
- Addams
C.
- Anderson
S.
- Appian
A.
- Arms
J.T.
- Baertson
A.
- Barye
A.
- Béjot
E.
- Benoist
P.
- Blampied
E.
- Blum
T.
- Bolswert
S.A. à
- Bone
M.
- Bonvin
F.
- Bracquemond
F.
- Brangwyn
F.
- Buhot
F.
- Cameron
D.Y.
- Cameron
K.
- Corot
J.B.C.
- Cowern
R.T.
- Daubigny
C.F.
- Delacroix
E.
- Dethomas
M.
- Dodd
F.
- Drury
P.
- Dujardin
K.
- Dupré J.
- Dürer
A.
- Dyck
F. van
- Elsheimer
A.
- Ensor
J.
- Fantin-Latour
H.
- Frisius
S.W.
- Garratt
A.P.
- Gibbings
R.
- Gill
E.
- Gheyn
J. de
- Goudt
H.
- Goyen
J. van
- Gwynne-Jones
A.
- Haden
F.S.
- Hollar
W.
- Hondius
H.
- Howarth
A.
- Hunt
W.H.
- Isabey
E.
- Israels
J.
- Janes
N.
- Jode
P. de
- Kerr-Lawson
J.
- Lalanne
M.
- Legrand
L.
- Liebermann
M.
- Lowengrund
M.
- Luce
M.
- Lumsden
E.
- Lund
N.M.
- MacLaughlan
D.
- Martin
W.A.
- Masereel
F.
- Meidner
L.
- Menpes
M.
- Moore
T.S.
- Nash
J.
- Nevinson
C.R.W.
- Oppenheimer
M.
- Orlik
E.
- Orovida
(Pissarro)
- Osborne
M.
- Palmer
S.
- Panderen
E. van
- Park
J.
- Pencz
G.
- Peters
R.C.
- Pott
C.M.
- Raffé W.G.
- Ranft
R.
- Raverat
G.
- Rayner
H.
- Renouard
P.
- Robert
H.
- Robertson
P.
- Rodo
L. (Pissarro)
- Rothenstein
W.
- Roussel
K.X.
- Rushbury
H.
- Schmutzer
F.
- Short
F.
- Smart
D.I.
- Smith
P.W.
- Solis
V.
- Steer
P.W.
- Steinlen
T.A.
- Sterl
R.
- Spare
A.O. (Not Stuck F.von)
- Taylor
C.W.
- Turnbull
A.W.
- Unold
M.
- Ury
L.
- Vahrenhorst
P.
- Verhaecht
T.
- Vivant-Denon
D.
- Vliet
J. van
- Volkmar
C.
- Way
T.R.
- Webster
H.A.
- Whistler
J.M.
- Wolff
H.
- Wright
J.
- Zeeman
R. (Nooms)
- Zeising
W.
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