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David Avery

David Avery continues to explore the expressive and technical possibilities inherent in black and white line etching. His work is included in the collections of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the New York Public Library, the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, the Stanford University Library among others, and has been noted in the New York Times. Even though “black and white doesn’t sell”, he has eschewed the use of color, finding the subtleties and tonalities of black and white most capable of creating the psychological mood that allows his work to be effective.

Public Collections:

The Fogg Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
Stanford University Library, Special Collections, Stanford, CA
The Turner Print Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA
The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
New York Public Library, New York, NY
San Francisco Public Library, Book Arts and Special Collections Center

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St. George and dragon snail etching by David Avery

St. George Progresses

Etching
Image size: 1 inch by 4 inches
Edition of 50
Price: $150.00

A Post-traumatic History Lesson

Medium: Etching
Dimensions: 7" x 5", Edition Size: 30
Paper: Gutenberg Laid (13" x 10")
Price: $450.00

whimsical surrealistic print of clowns and stilts etching by David Avery

Nonsense on Stilts

Medium: Etching
Dimensions: 10 3/4" x 4 3/8" , Edition Size: 40
Paper: Zerkall Laid Cover Lt. Green (18" x 9 1/2")
Price: $500.00

Awaiting a Time Like the Present

Medium: etching
Dimensions: 12 5/8" x 4", Edition Size: 35
Paper: Zerkall Laid Cover White (18 7/8" x 9")
Price: $500.00

The Long Road to War

Medium: etching
Dimensions: 3" x 14"
Paper: Copperplate Warm White (9" x 19-1/2")
Price: $400.00

Exterminating Angel

Medium: etching
Dimensions: 4" x 3", Edition Size: 50
Paper: Lana Gravure (13" x 10")
Price: $270.00

Regret

Etching
Image size: 4 7/8" x 3 5/8", Edition of 50
Price: $300.00

God's Food
A portfolio of eight etchings

(Preview by rolling over titles)

This folio of eight etchings was initiated at the behest of a dealer who suggested an “adult” children’s book. At that timeAvery had just discovered a list of over 200 titles of tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. He immediately saw this as an opportunity not to illustrate the Brothers Grimm, but to use their work as a point of departure from which the artist's imagination could spin its own tales.

Medium: Clothbound Portfolio of Eight Etchings
Dimensions: 14 7/8" x 10 5/8" x 7/8"
Edition Size: 24
Paper: Zerkall copperplate (14" x 10")

Portfolio Price: $2,500.00
Individual prints from the series are $400