Old City Square, East Prague / 1928?

Vondrous, Jan
Czech
Early 20th Century
Etching

$450.00

Pencil signed

Sepia ink on tan paper

2nd State

Image: 12 ⅝” x 10 ⅛”

Sheet: 16 ⅝” x 14 ½”

Mat and frame (not shown here). Mat and mount are Rising Museum Board, 4-ply, 100% cotton. Gold wood frame. Tru-vue Conservation Clear glass, UV-filtering.

Condition behind mat: 1 ⅛” tear on bottom edge, faint creasing in margins, hard creases in both upper corners- 1 ½” from image, discolored strip on back from contact with acidic paper-  does not affect front of sheet.

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Jan Vondrous (yahn von-drōs, Czech/American, 1884-1956) is best known for his work as an architectural etcher. He emigrated to the United States at an early age and studied at the National Academy of Design in New York with George W. Maynard, Francis C. Jones, and James D. Smillie. Vandrous’s first etchings were published during the First World War and focused primarily on architectural views of New York and environs. He won a bronze medal for printmaking at the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.

After the end of the war (1918), Vondrous spent much of the following decade etching architectural scenes of major European cities, particularly Bruges and Venice. During this time, he maintained both his permanent home and studio in Long Island.

In 1929, however, Vondrous re-settled in his native Czechoslovakia and continued to both etch and paint the people and architecture of Prague where he lived and worked.

His images combine a strong sense of abstract design with selective, evocative detail. They are not dry records of endless facts about construction, but moody observations of environments and the people who inhabit or pass through them.

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