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Ad Code: 3
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Landscape, 27" X 22", 1925
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Wilson Silsby was an etcher, lithographer and painter, known especially for his invention of the no-ground etching plate and for his stage-set designs for the theater and motion picture industry. He was born in Chicago and died in Los Angeles. He attended high school in Chicago and later studied privately with William Merritt Chase and Abbott Thayer.
In 1913, he moved to Los Angeles where he first worked as an art director for Universal Pictures. In the 1920s, he began etching and wrote t (showing 500 of 2450 characters). |
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