THEY CAME TO AMERICA
(“Immigrant Art” in the USA)
(“Immigrant Art” in the USA)
- de Saint-Mémin: Mrs. Cummings
- Moran: The Rapids
- van Beest: Two Fishermen
- Moran: The Passaic
- van Elten: The Deserted Mill
- Mielatz: Out of Commission
- Yeats: Rye, July 4, 1908
- Botke: Beside a Valley
- Nakamizo: Heron Lifting Off
- Charlot: Woman Lifting Rebozo
- Constant: Still Life with Pears
- Bormann: New York Aquarium
- Castellon: Waiting Women
- Takal: Man with a Cigar
- Lozowick: The White Spider
- Sangster: Niagara Falls
- Lovet-Lorski: Winged Man
- Sterner: The Penitent
- Hamilton: Feeding the Sparrows
- Sandzén: Mountain Lake
- Lucioni: Barn in the Hills
- Binder: Moses
- Eby: Goin’ Home
- Farrer: Sunset, Gowanus Bay
- Geritz: Mae Murray
- Grossman: Rain on the Square
- Sherman: Quadrille Band
- Brockhurst: Una
- Gottlieb: Low Tide
- Hoffbauer: Studies
- Oppenheimer: New York at Night
- Robinson: Horse Auction
- Bluemner: Winfield, Long Island
- Mora: Mother and Child
- Drewes: Rotterdam
- Fiene: Barns
- Marsh, Coney Island Beach
- Moser: Sunrise
- Eichenberg: Seven Deadly Sins
- Hayter, Greeting Card for 1945
- Kuniyoshi: Taxco, Mexico
- Roth: Street in Siena
- Winkler: Chow Seller
- Ruzicka: East River, Evening
- Reinhardt: Intermission
- Kadar: The Nativity
- Weber: Mountain Scene
- Schultheiss: The Flight into Egypt
- Walkowitz: Two Figures
- MacLaughlan: The Great Oak
- Auerbach-Levy: Cabby
- Neufeldt: Rhode Island
- Dolice: Off Asbury Park
- Friedlander: Brooklyn Bridge
- Hankins: Arrangement
The Great Oak, Tennessee
Etching and drypoint, 1909, 152 x 159 mm., Bruette 99 undescribed ii/ii, Library of Congress 94, 95. Very fine impression on old laid paper, trimmed by the artist to just outside the platemark (Whistler’s influence) and pencil signed in the narrow margin at the bottom. MacLaughlan was born on Prince Edward Island in Canada and moved to Boston, with his family in 1890, where he studied art. But his future lay in Europe and by 1898 he was in France, etching furiously as he took in the sights, later in Switzerland, Italy and England, doing the same. He was among the first of the New-Worlders to join the etching revival (Haden and Whistler were still alive, Bone had just begun his career and McBey was still working in a bank) and the excitement of his discovery of Europe is palpable in his prints and drawings. They drew considerable contemporary praise. MacLaughlan returned to America rarely, but he did do several etchings of Chicago and several of Tennessee, of varying dates, but most, significantly, of 1917. Always peripatetic, he died in Marrakesh, Morocco.