Giorgio Morandi: Etchings at the MoMA

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Giorgio Morandi (Italian, 1890–1964)

Giorgio Morandi is one of my favorite artists!  I discovered his work while I was  studying Painting and Drawing in Florence, Italy in the mid-80's.  Here are some of his etchings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Bridge over the Savera, Bologna (1912)
 Etching and Aquatint

Giorgio Morandi 

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Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker known for his simple, contemplative still lifes of bottles, jars, and boxes.  He was born on July 20, 1890 in Bologna, Italy, and he died on June 18, 1964 in Bologna.  [Source]

Still Life, 1930

Etching

Giorgio Morandi

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Morandi developed an intimate approach to art that, directed by a highly refined formal sensibility, gave his quiet landscapes and disarmingly simple still-life compositions a delicacy of tone and extraordinary subtlety of design.  [Source]  

View of Montagnola, Bologna (1932) 

(Veduta della Montagnola di Bologna)

Etching

Giorgio Morandi

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As instructor of etching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna from 1930 to 1956, Morandi had a profound influence on succeeding generations of Italian graphic artists.  [Source]

Still Life, 1933

Etching

Giorgio Morandi

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Large Still Life with Coffeepot, 1933
(Grande Natura Morta con la Caffettiera)

 Etching

Giorgio Morandi

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Circular Still Life, 1942

Etching

Giorgio Morandi

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Oval Still Life, 1945

Etching

Giorgio Morandi

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