{"title":"Eva Auld WATSON","description":"Eva Auld Watson, printmaker, painter, and illustrator, was born on a Texas cattle ranch in 1889. Her artistic training began at the Pittsburg School of Design, and then at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where she studied with her future husband, Ernest Watson, whom she married in 1911. Their marriage was a true partnership of artistic vision and practice. As they raised their son, born in 1917, the pair printed and sold their block prints at Greywold, their summer home\/studio in Monterey, Massachusetts, where Ernest had co-founded the Berkshire Summer School of Art. Although they shared a printmaking studio, using many of the same block printing techniques, Eva pursued her own path creating the vibrant, harmonious landscapes that distinguished her unique vision. With gradations of vivid color made by handling inked rollers with great sensitivity and skill, she created shimmering, painterly effects. She passed away in 1948 in New York City. Her work is held in the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Library of Congress, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.","products":[{"product_id":"jungle-peace","title":"Jungle Peace","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eColor woodcut on \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJapan\u003c\/em\u003e paper, no date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdition of 75.\u003cbr\u003eSigned, titled and numbered in pencil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe sheet was folded on the left side, on purpose, to be used for a Christmas greeting on a folded paper tab. The tab, folded back, annotated in red crayon: “Cheery Christmas Wishes \/ to the \/ Three Bears \/ The Big tall Bear with black crayons \/ The medium sized Bears with lovely dolls \/ and \/ The Little Bear with many water colors.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is a veritable wilderness wonderland, with two toads or frogs in the foreground, a pair of white herons and a hummingbird in the middle ground, and a pair of deer, a buck and a doe in the background drinking from a waterfall. All this occurs in the middle of a dense, and lush rainforest, indicated very simply, but successfully with various leaf shapes and vines, opening to a clearing. With just two colors and a simple composition, Eva Auld Watson opens a whole wide forest to the viewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WATSON, Eva Auld","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43199235096812,"sku":"","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2654\/1544\/products\/EvaAuldWatson-JunglePeace-colorwoodcut-fineartChristmasgreetingcard-detail.jpg?v=1661440111"}],"url":"https:\/\/armstrongfineart.com\/collections\/eva-auld-watson\/color_dark-blue+exhibition_recent-stories.oembed","provider":"Armstrong Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}