FIRST STATE ETCHING by RENOWNED ARTIST JACK COUGHLIN "DREAM CIRCUS" # 7/17

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"DREAM CIRCUS" Rare First State Etching, # 7/17 printed by the artist himself; Jack Davis Coughlin, American, b 1932 . Lions, giraffe, zebra, monkeys and nude women. Imageis 13" x 13"; Frame is 19" x 19". Born February 19, 1932 in Greenwich, Connecticut he went on to study at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Art Students League, New York. His prints were selected for the Associated American Artists' 1966 New Talent in Printmaking Exhibition. Since then his work has been exhibited extensively and added to museum collections around the world. Widely respected as a printmaker of exceptional draftsmanship, he has also created low relief sculptures in the lost wax-bronze casting technique. He is well known for his prints of literary figures but has also a large body of work utilizing animals, birds of prey and grotesques in addition to his current passion for drawing musicians. In addition to his work as an artist and a sculptor, Jack Coughlin is Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. PRINT STATES – What are they?J The AHPCS definition of state is, "a “state” of a print includes all the impressions pulled without any change being made to the matrix. A first state print is one of the first groups of impressions pulled . Different states of a print can reflect intentional or accidental changes read more