WILLIAM MAJORS (1930 - 1982) Etchings from Ecclesiastes.
Portfolio with complete text and 18 etchings, including aquatint and sugarlift, and printed in sepia and brown on Rives BFK paper, 1965. Each approximately 343x425 mm; 13 1/2x16 3/4 inches, full margins, loose as issued.
One of ten trial proof copies, aside from the edition of 75 numbered copies. Each print signed, titled and numbered VIII/X in pencil, lower margin. Published by The Junior Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Original cream portfolio and board slipcase.
In the printed introduction, printmaker Fritz Eichenberg states: "These plates are essays in aquatint and sugarlift, running the gamut from delicate lyrical etchings in hardground to strongly patterned abstract forms in heightened relief, produced by drops of congealed glue on a copper plate." Etchings from Ecclesiastes was awarded the Grand Prize in Graphic Arts at the First World Festival of Negro Arts, held in Dakar, Senegal, 1966.
