Antietam

First Edition: Pigment-Based Inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Pearl Art Paper (320 gsm): $450 each for prints 11-15/20, Subscriptions Available

Stock Dimension: 13 x 19 inches.

Print Process: HP pigment-based "Vivera" inks to Hahnemuhle Pear Art Paper, which has been selected for its luminous qualities as well as its weight and longevity.  This state of the art process promises print longevity of upwards of 200 years, provided normal storage or viewing conditions apply (e.g., out of direct sunlight and in displayed indoors in moderate temperature and humidity).

About the Collection

Having worked up various iterations and printed proofs, some letter-sized, some 11x17, each interpretation represents in tones familiar more than 100 years ago both elegy and homage. 

Antietam National Battlefield Park has been often described as tranquil, and while it is that and quite a few other moods beside--educational, recreational, familial even--it is a property that yet holds the bones of many of its dead and contains the echos, visual certainly, palpable possibly, of a single day's armed violence involving 125,000 troops gathered from every corner of the country. 

Casualties (National Park Service figures): 22,700, including between 3,650 and 7,640 dead, the latter figure extrapolated as a percentage of reported missing and wounded who may well have died in the days following the battle.

Content to date:

"The Road to Roulette Farm"; "Dunkard Church"; "View Toward Bloody Lane"; "Bloody Lane"; "Burnside Bridge"; "Antietam National Cemetary"; "Antietam Creek"; "Mumma Farmstead"

I have tried with this project to turn back the clock some while moving the heart forward.  It remains in progress as of this posting (May 21, 2008) and fits well an associated interest in contemporary conflicts, not the least those mired in civil disputes and pitting brother against brother.

Disposition of Printing: N=20

1-2 Artist's Proofs; 3-4 Estate Prints (reserved); 5-8 Folio Prints (reserved); 9-10 Museum Prints (offered for institutional purchase through price bid above reserve); 11-15 Gallery Prints (offered at price, open, subscriptions available); 16-20 Gallery Prints (open for bid above reserve).

Shipping:  $15; Tax: Maryland residents pay six percent sales tax on purchase.

Antietam Collection Slides