Greeting Card
1947-1948
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engraving in black
Dimensions
plate: 13 × 8.4 cm (5 1/8 × 3 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.817
Art Historical Context
**Greeting Card**, a delicate engraving in black by Stanley William Hayter, from 1947-1948 and measures just 13 × 8.4 cm—perfectly sized for its titular purpose. Created in the intimate scale of a greeting card, print exemplifies Hayter's mastery of intaglio techniques during the post-World War II era, a time when he was deeply influencing the New York and Paris art scenes through his innovative Atelier 17 workshop. Hayter, a pioneering British printmaker, revolutionized engraving by experimenting with unconventional tools, inks, and pressures to achieve textured, expressive lines unattainabl...
About the Artist
Stanley William Hayter
Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988), born in Hackney, London, to painter and sign-maker William Harry Hayter, initially pursued a scientific career, earning a degree in chemistry and geology from King's College London. He worked as a research chemist for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Abadan, Iran, from 1922 to 1925, painting portraits of colleagues in his spare time; an exhibition of these upon ...