33. Clifford Isaac Addams
(1876-1942)

The Little Market Place, Finchley, London

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Addams, Little Market Place

The Little Market Place, Finchley, London

Etching, and drypoint, 1920, 171 x 250 mm. A fine proof impression, with burr and varied plate tone, on oriental paper with inclusions, with full margins, signed in pencil and with an illegible note at the left, also titled in pencil and noted "1 of 6 proofs only"; very faint discoloration around the area of the old mat opening. Addams was born near Philadelphia and studied with Whistler in Paris in 1899. There he met, and later married, another Whistler student, Inez Eleanor Bate, and Whistler remained friendly with the couple until his death. Addams settled in New York after W.W.I and much later became president of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers. Actually, he did not seriously begin to etch until about 1914. Though obviously more conventional in his approach than Whistler, and with a preference for heavy line work, he had real ability as a draughtsman and a feel for patterned composition of which Whistler would have approved.