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A work made of photo-etching, aquatint, mezzotint, scraping, roulette, drypoint and burnishing in green-black on ivory wove paper.

The Pool of Tears

1962

Vera Berdich American, 1915-2003

United States

For the fifth state of The Pool of Tears, Vera Berdich used drypoint and mezzotint to further articulate the head of the girl. She also enhanced the borders with roulette, mezzotint, and burnishing and printed the proof in green-black ink.

Photo-etching, aquatint, mezzotint, scraping, roulette, drypoint and burnishing in green-black on ivory wove paper

Prints and Drawings

Women artists