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Moving to the Mines

Name: Moving to the Mines
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 15122

Roy Purcell

$450

American (1936)

Date: 1980
Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 250
Size: 29 in. x 43 in. (73.66 cm x 109.22 cm)

$450

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about Moving to the Mines

Exiting the vehicle in the foreground, a family prepares to begin a new life in the mines of the American Southwest.

Surveying the land around them while the sun glares down, Roy Purcell's sullen depiction of the newcomers to the American frontier is emblematic of the struggles that await the family in their new home.

About The Artist: Roy Purcell

Roy Purcell has lived and worked as an artist in Las Vegas since 1970 and has created a large body of American artwork in various media. While known throughout the southwest for his etchings, he has mastered watercolor, oil, pastel, ink, acrylic and pencil to express the world around him. Born in 1936, Roy grew up in rural Utah, where he learned an appreciation of the earth and developed a sensitivity for its beauty. He appears to have sprung...

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About The Medium: Etching

The printing process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In traditional pure etching, a metal (usually copper, zinc or steel) plate is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid. The artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle where they want a line to appear in the finished piece, exposing the bare metal. The plate is then put through a high-pressure printing press together with a sheet of paper (often moistened to soften it). The paper picks up the ink from the etched lines, making a print.

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