Plate, Printing
1945 (Date manufactured/created)
copper
copper
9.5 inches H
X
14.75 inches W
Rectangular copper plate depicting shoreline in forefront with town and clock tower in background by Ernest Roth. Plate is canceled with diagonal lines going across it. Bottom lower right ledge has title "Beach Camogli, Italy"
Ernest David Roth, painter and printmaker, was born on 17 January 1879 in Stuttgart, Germany and at the age of five years old, his parents immigrated to the United States. Roth was best known for his paintings and etchings of scenes of New York, Italy (especially Venice), and Spain. He studied painting at the National Academy of Design under Edgar Ward and George Maynard and at the New York School of Art under F. Luis Mora, and he studied etching techniques with James David Smillie.
Ernest David Roth lived and worked in Manhattan but eventually moved to West Redding, Connecticut. He died on 20 August 1964, at the age of eight-five years old, while visiting friends in Cambridge, New York.
- The Annex Galleries
Ernest David Roth, painter and printmaker, was born on 17 January 1879 in Stuttgart, Germany and at the age of five years old, his parents immigrated to the United States. Roth was best known for his paintings and etchings of scenes of New York, Italy (especially Venice), and Spain. He studied painting at the National Academy of Design under Edgar Ward and George Maynard and at the New York School of Art under F. Luis Mora, and he studied etching techniques with James David Smillie.
Ernest David Roth lived and worked in Manhattan but eventually moved to West Redding, Connecticut. He died on 20 August 1964, at the age of eight-five years old, while visiting friends in Cambridge, New York.
- The Annex Galleries
Collection of Mattatuck Museum
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