Famille Japonaise

Stanley William Hayter, artist

1901–1988

Famille Japonaise, 1955

Where object was made: England, United Kingdom

Material/technique: stenciling; laid paper; soft-ground etching; color engraving; scorper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 356 x 242 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 640 x 500 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 14 x 9 1/2 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 3/16 x 19 11/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund

Accession number: 2001.0001

Not on display

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"Inspired by Japan," Mar-2003, Cori Sherman
Hayter began his career in science, studying chemistry and geology at King’s College, London (1917-21), but after a few years in the field gave it up for art. Beginning in the 1940s his primary technical preoccupations were with color printing and inventing new solutions to puzzles long deemed unsolvable. He used screens to apply inks to the etching plate, enabling him to print in various colours simultaneously. In the 1950s, Hayter explored a method of color etching in which inks of varying viscosities were applied with rollers to a plate etched to different levels to allow simultaneous color printing.

Even as a scientific modernist, Hayter was interested in the history of Japanese prints, giving them their due as a “strong influence on the art of the twentieth century.” Writing in a preface to a 1973 volume on contemporary Japanese print-makers, Hayter pointed out the give-and-take inspiration and invigoration that contact through the centuries had provided both Western and Asian Art.