Framed Yale University Limited Edition Etching by Louis Orr - 1926

A framed etching of the Osborn Memorial Laboratories, Yale University done by Louis Orr. Measures 10 by 7 inches and 20 by 15 inches in the frame. In very good condition, some light wear to the outside of the frame. Matted with a wooden frame. 

Orr made ten etchings of Yale in 1926, including this one. 

Born in Connecticut, Orr moved to Paris while in his twenties to study at the Académie Julian, a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian that was active from 1868 through 1968. Orr’s etchings were the first by an American artist purchased for the permanent collection in the Louvre’s chalcography department.

Orr was a skilled craftsman as evidenced by the fine detail of the etching. He had a knack for using shadow and light, and for creating depth. The etchings were limited edition. The etching is signed in pencil of Louis Orr.

A set of the etchings are in the Yale University Art Gallery. Orr's works are also in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of the Fine Arts, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the British Museum, and more.

Rare.