Etching

Etching of a market scene with street vendors selling garlic, shallots, and parsley. The work is signed by the artist and titled. It is framed in a black frame with a white matte.

Printmaker Harold Altman was an etcher, painter, and teacher, who was born in New York City in 1924. He attended the Art Students League from 1941-42 and Cooper Union (Graduate in Fine Arts) from 1941-47, both in New York City. In 1946, he attended Black Mountain College, North Carolina and then went on to The New School, New York City 1947-49. Finishing his extensive art education at the L'Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris 1949-52. The artist also served with the 937th Engineer Camouflage, European Theater of Operations during World War II, 1942-45. Altman settled in the central Pennsylvanian village of Lemont in 1962, where a nineteenth-century frame church serves as his studio. Approximately four months out of the year are spent working in Paris where his lithographs are printed at Atelier DesJobert. In previous years, his etchings were printed at Atelier George LeBlanc.

H 32.5 in. x W 31 in. x D 1 in.

H 20 in x W 25 in.