Summer, Coy Avon Seward

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Coy Avon Seward, Summer
Coy Avon Seward, Summer
Coy Avon Seward
Summer
1923
Coy Avon Seward
1884–1939
Summer, 1923
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: lithograph; laid paper
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 175 x 256 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 256 x 370 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 6 7/8 x 10 1/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 10 1/16 x 14 9/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: Gift of Bud and Ruby Jennings, Prairie Print Makers Collection
Accession number: 1991.0390
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Exhibition Label: “C.A. Seward: Artist and Draftsman,” Feb-2010, Kate Meyer With the key elements of the drawing transferred to the plate, Seward would draw his design in detail with a greasy, lithography crayon. Seward would then chemically treat the plate so that once-greasy passages would retain ink. Each impression printed from the plate would then reproduce the marks he’d drawn on the plate in reverse. Although Seward limited the size of his printed editions, he could have printed a virtually limitless quantity of impressions from this plate, each one an original work of art. Exhibition Label: "A Kansas Arts Sampler," Oct-2004, Kate Meyer Seward served as the head of the art department at Western Lithograph Company in Wichita, where he encouraged sensitivity to the fine arts among his coworkers Lloyd Foltz, Charles Hotvedt, Leo Courtney, and Charles Capps. He also played a formative role in artistic groups such as the Wichita Art Association and the Prairie Print Makers. Seward’s legacy persists not only as an artist, but also as a source of inspiration and instruction for others.

Exhibitions

C.A. Seward: Artist and Draftsman
Kate Meyer, curator
2010
A Kansas Art Sampler
Kate Meyer, curator
2004–2005

Citations

Meyer, Kate, and Carole Gardner, Barbara Thompson, David Thompson, Saralyn Reece Hardy. C.A. Seward: Artist and Draftsman. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 2011.