Stanley William Hayter

Stanley William Hayter
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Stanley William Hayter
Hayter, printmaking
Born(1901-12-27)27 December 1901
London, England
Died4 May 1988(1988-05-04) (aged 86)
Paris, France
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Stanley William Hayter CBE (27 December 1901 – 4 May 1988) was an English painter and master printmaker associated in the 1930s with surrealism and from 1940 onward with abstract expressionism.[1] Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, in 1927 Hayter founded the influential Atelier 17 studio in Paris. Since his death in 1988, it has been known as Atelier Contrepoint.[2] Among the artists who frequented the atelier were Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Nemesio Antúnez,[3] Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, Mauricio Lasansky, K.R.H. Sonderborg,[2][4][5] Flora Blanc, Carl Heywood,[6] and Catherine Yarrow.[7]

He is noted for his innovative work in the development of viscosity printing (a process that exploits varying viscosities of oil-based inks to lay three or more colours on a single intaglio plate).[8][9]

Hayter was equally active as a painter, "Hayter, working always with maximum flexibility in painting, drawing, engraving, collage and low relief has invented some of the most central and significant images of this century before most of the other artists of his generation", wrote Bryan Robertson.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "Stanley William Hayter (1901–1989)". Art Collection. British Council. Archived from the original on 15 July 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
  2. ^ a b Brenson, Michael (6 May 1988). "Stanley William Hayter, 86, Dies; Painter Taught Miró and Pollock". New York Times, 6 May 1988. Retrieved 18 October 2008.
  3. ^ Manning, Jo. Etched in Time. Victoria, BC, Canada: Friesen Press, 2015, page 132
  4. ^ The Art Book. London: Phaidon Press. 1997. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-7148-4487-9.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hacker was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Life's work of Carl Heywood". mardenart gallery. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  7. ^ Edwards, Katie Robinson (2014). Midcentury Modern Art in Texas. University of Texas Press. p. 285. ISBN 9780292756656.
  8. ^ Warrington Colescott; Arthur Hove (1999). Progressive printmakers: Wisconsin artists and the print renaissance. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-299-16110-1. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
  9. ^ Gerald W. R. Ward (2008). The Grove encyclopedia of materials and techniques in art. Oxford University Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-19-531391-8. Retrieved 17 September 2010.