In 1911, the New York Edison Company commissioned Horter and two other artists, including Pennell, to produce illustrations for its book “Glimpses of New York: An Illustrated Handbook of the City.” In 1914, he created an automobile ad for the Packard ’38’ Phaeton car and was included in the “Yearbook of American Etching. Horter worked at several other agencies, including Carlton Illustrators and the Cheltenham Advertising Agency. He was hired by the Calkins and Holden advertising agency based on his drafting skills. In 1903, he married the first of four wives and moved to New York. Įarly on, he worked as a both a paid and freelance commercial artist. His style was likened to his contemporary Joseph Pennell as well as James Abbott Whistler. He was often cited in newspaper articles - even today - as one of the most important etchers in American art history. He exhibited widely in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and other cities in shows where etchings were predominant. He was most noted for his etchings of architectural structures and city-street scenes in Philadelphia, New York and European cities. He was prolific during the 1920s and1930s, producing etchings, aquatints, watercolors, oil paintings, lithographs and drawings.
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He wanted to “depict this tremendous epic of new cities emerging full grown out of the chrysalis of the old.” He felt that he could render the changes in the architectural landscapes of Philadelphia and New York in the same dramatic way as they had done with Old World structures.
Horter was enamored with the old-master drawings he saw in museums and galleries, especially the architectural work of Italian artists Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and French artist Charles Meryon.
He studied etching with George Senseney, the first color etcher in the United States who taught at the Art Students League in New York. Horter was a self-taught artist who never attended art school. Over the years, he signed his name as “Earl” and “Earle.” Years as an artist, 1900–1919 At age 19, he was living with his widowed mother and his occupation was listed as landscape artist on the 1900 U.S. He was also said to be a draftsman who engraved stock certificates for the John Wanamaker department store. As a youth, he was an apprentice to a commercial engraver and found a job designing bank notes. A student at the Germantown Boys Combined Grammar School in the 1890s, he began drawing as a young boy. 8, 1880, to Jacob and Jeanette Horter (Blumner was her maiden name), a working-class family in Philadelphia. Posthumous work, it is a compendium of various items of Roman furniture, will make the rules as regards Neoclassical furniture fashion and flavour in European affluent salons of 17-18 th century.Earl Blumner Horter was born on Dec. Piranesi, published in the year 1778), printed and integrated by his son Francesco. Piranesi pubblicati l’anno MDCCLXXIIX”, 1778, (Vases, candelabras, grave,stones,sarcophagi,tripods, lamps, and ornaments designed and etched by Cav.
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By this time he was already very famous, and created the series of decorative plates of antiquities, collected in his work “Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal cav. In the last period, Piranesi’s activities, above all as an editor, were characterised by a more commercial flavour. Generations after him would continue to imagine Ancient Rome as he portrayed it in his magnificent “ Vedute”. Giovanni Battista Piranesi is well-known as an architect, an archaeologist and, undoubtedly as the most important engraver of the 18th century: the leading artist in this field in the period going from Rembrandt to Goya.
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