litho plate for Summer

Coy Avon Seward

1884–1939

litho plate for Summer, 1923

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: metal lithographic plate

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 186 x 291 mm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 18.6 x 29.1 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 7 5/16 x 11 7/16 in

Credit line: Gift in memory of Dorothy Seward Thompson and Mabel Drew Seward

Accession number: S2006.014

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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.