DOI issue:
No. 262 (January 1915)
DOI article:MacTavish, Newton: Notes on some canadian etchers
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0261
Canadian Etchers
"sortie de l'eglise" by dorothy stevens
that Gagnon is a very
careful printer. He cer-
tainly has the knack of
obtaining an extremely
soft line and his results
have a charm of tone that
isnotoftenexcelled. Tone,
indeed, is one of Gagnon's
first claims to distinction
as an etcher. One feels
colour in most of his
prints, and his composi-
tions generally are satis-
factory. He has been
attracted by old streets
and buildings on the Con-
tinent, with the result that
most of his etchings,
although he is a Canadian,
are of subjects selected
abroad. He is a young
man, little more than
thirty, and has been an
etcher for ten years.
He was born in Canada;
manship. While he is refined and poetical, Miss his father was French-Canadian and his mother
Stevens is bold and dashing, and she graves her English. His studies in art began at the
lines with no feel-
ing that her life
depends on the
execution. That
absence of re-
straint, which
sometimes goes to
the extreme of
genuine abandon-
ment, imparts to
her drawings a
charm that is
never otherwise
imparted. Ap-
parently she does
not hope to get
her effects by any
tricks at printing,
but relies on the
merits of the plate,
although she is
conscious of the
superiority of
some prints over
others.
One would say,
on the other hand, " granada, spain " by clarence a. gagnon
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"sortie de l'eglise" by dorothy stevens
that Gagnon is a very
careful printer. He cer-
tainly has the knack of
obtaining an extremely
soft line and his results
have a charm of tone that
isnotoftenexcelled. Tone,
indeed, is one of Gagnon's
first claims to distinction
as an etcher. One feels
colour in most of his
prints, and his composi-
tions generally are satis-
factory. He has been
attracted by old streets
and buildings on the Con-
tinent, with the result that
most of his etchings,
although he is a Canadian,
are of subjects selected
abroad. He is a young
man, little more than
thirty, and has been an
etcher for ten years.
He was born in Canada;
manship. While he is refined and poetical, Miss his father was French-Canadian and his mother
Stevens is bold and dashing, and she graves her English. His studies in art began at the
lines with no feel-
ing that her life
depends on the
execution. That
absence of re-
straint, which
sometimes goes to
the extreme of
genuine abandon-
ment, imparts to
her drawings a
charm that is
never otherwise
imparted. Ap-
parently she does
not hope to get
her effects by any
tricks at printing,
but relies on the
merits of the plate,
although she is
conscious of the
superiority of
some prints over
others.
One would say,
on the other hand, " granada, spain " by clarence a. gagnon
258