Guides: The Joy of Collecting: The Strishock Print Collection: Weidenaar, Reynold Henry

Weidenaar, Reynold Henry

Reynold Henry Weidenaar (1915-1985) was an American painter, etcher, and illustrator. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied at the Kendall School of Design and the Kansas City Art Institute. He received several awards for his works, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Scholarship. He was a prolific and exacting artist, producing 212 prints on copper with the intaglio processes, using tools he crafted himself, and reviving the mezzotint technique. Working mostly on copper with all the intaglio processes, Weidenaar produced 212 prints.

Resource Cited:
The International Fine Print Dealers Association
http://www.ifpda.org/content/node/2360

Exhibit note: There are two galleries on this page. The first has an assortment of prints, and the second is a collection of 14 prints of Demolition in the Plaza Del Toro

Images

Sancho's Naughty Ninos

An etching showing a man with a donkey walking up a steep hill, two men are on top of hill behind large tree

Tough Hombre

Drypoint (engraving). "Tough Hombre"

Six Ways to Draw on Copper

An engraving entitled "Six Ways to Draw on Copper" by Reynold Weidenaar. The engraving depicts a circle divided into six numbered sections. The meaning of the numbered section is listed, and there is an example picture for number 2.

Note: Trial proof (new copper)

Handwritten note that may say: Stick with 60 illustrators, but this is getting a little anyway, regretably?