Oskar Bergman

“Fjärden” (Expansive Archipelago Landscape)

c. 1915

"Coastal Ti Tree" Drypoint Etching in Ink on Paper No. 30/100 Detailed etching attributed to Ernest Edwin Abbot (British, 1888-1973). Several trees grow along the coast at the edge of the water at Ti Tree, Australia. In the far distance, a mountain range can be seen on the opposite shore. Titled and numbered "Coastal Ti Tree 30-100" in the left corner. Signed "G. Cope" in the right corner. Presented in a new black mat with foamcore backing. Mat size: 11"H x 14"W Paper size: 5.5"H x 10.25"W According to The Centre for Australian Art: Prints + Printmaking, Abbot often produced work under the pseudonym "G. Cope" Ernest Edwin Abbott was born in 1889 and grew up in Bideford United Kingdom, With his younger siblings Violet, Reginald, Olive and his parents Charles and Sarah Abbott, His Farther worked as a upholsterer. Abbott decided in 1911 to migrate to Western Australia on the ship Tainui, Settled in Western Australia he then married his wife Florence Radcliffe Olde in 1913 whom also came to Australia in 1912 from Bideford. They had two sons, Reginald Douglas Abbott and Kenneth John Abbott. They moved to South Australia where he taught art at Stott’s for four years. Later in 1920 the family moved to the suburb of Kew in Melbourne Victoria, where he took a studio in Oxford Chambers at 475 Bourke Street. He also built a studio later at his home in Black Rock. In about 1920 or 1930 he took up dry-point etching, and gave up his city studio to concentrate on printmaking at his home. Abbott made his own engraving tools...

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