GRAVURES CONTEMPORAINES

Martin Haubenreisser (born in 1938) Martin Haubenreisser was born near Dresden in 1938 and grew up in the beautiful countryside of Upper Saxony. He has always been fascinated with drawing and painting plants, animals, insects and, especially, minerals. In 1952 he began an apprenticeship in photographic chemistry and graphic arts print-making, following in the footsteps of his father. He began collecting minerals with his family during the 1970's, on trips to the Erzgebirge and Thüringer Wald, and in 1995, inspired by the work of Claus Caspari and Eberhard Equit, he executed his first mineral specimen portraits. Since that time he has produced many mineral paintings, and in recent years has developed an interest in depicting specimens of historical interest. Haubenreisser is unique among mineral artists in that he has been depicting the old labels as well as the antique specimens. "These yellowed slips of paper," he says, "bear wonderful handwriting and provide dignity and respect for these historic mineral specimens." Haubenreisser works in a combination of pencil and watercolor on very smooth art paper, for maximum detail. Following the old traditions of classical scientific illustration, he depicts the specimens natural size and in the finest detail possible. "One needs a lot of patience, good eyesight, and a steady hand," he says. He commonly works from modest specimens in his own collection, but has also accepted commissions from other collectors. His work has been exhibited at the 1998 Munich Show and also at the Museum of Nature in Leipzig. His son, Uwe Haubenreisser, is also an accomplished mineral artist specializing in the difficult area of micromineral illustrations. Wendell .E.Wilson Reference: Robinson, S. (1999) German mineral artists Martin Haubenreisser (b. 1938) and Uwe Haubenreisser (b. 1968). Rocks & Minerals, 74, 192-193.
Fluorit, Siderit auf Quarz, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Sachsen Watercolor and art pencils (2004), painted actual size from a 3.3-inch specimen and label in the artist's collection	Fluorit auf Quarz, "St. Michael's," Dörfel, Erzgebirge Watercolor and art pencils (2004), painted actual size from a 3-inch and a 2-inch specimen in the artist's collection.	Fluorit auf Quarz, Zobes, Vogtland Watercolor and art pencils (2004), painted natural size from a 2-inch specimen in the artist's collection.
Fluorit auf Quarz, Zobes, Vogtland Watercolor and art pencils (2004), painted natural size from a 2-inch specimen in the artist's collection	Fluorit, Ssbr. Glockenpöhl, Bösenbrunn 2000 Watercolor and art pencils (2004), painted natural size from a 4.5-inch specimen in the artist's collection.	Fluorit, Dörfel bei Annaberg, Erzgebirge Watercolor and art pencils (2003), painted natural size from specimens up to 2.8 inches in the artist's collection
Fluorit, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge Watercolor and art pencils (1999), painted natural size from specimens up to 8.5 inches in the artist's collection.	Fluorite, Frohnau bei Annaberg, Erzgebirge Watercolor and art pencils (2003), painted natural size from specimens up to 2.5 inches in the artist's collection.	Fluorit, Annaberg and Frohnau bei Annaberg, Erzgebirge Watercolor and art pencils (2004), painted natural size from specimens up to 3.3 inches in the artist's collection.
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Frederick C. Wilda Hadley, MA 01035 Fred was born and raised in the small Western Massachusetts town of Hadley. At a very early age he spent free hours drawing and painting with whatever materials he could find around his small country home. Utilizing his self taught skills and dedication, he progresses to a career as a commercial artist for over 40 years. During those years he experienced every aspect of graphic designing, from truck lettering to creating new products, packaging and promotional material for regional and international corporations. Fred devoted time whenever he could to pursuing his love of fine arts. Landscapes and wildlife were his main subjects. He found oils to be his favorite medium for most of these works. A curiosity of minerals slowly developed to infatuation over the past several years. Collecting became a favorite outdoor pastime. Acquiring lapidary equipment, he soon learned to cut cabochons and free form jewelry developing this hobby into a part time business. Mineral shows soon became a good place to acquire more specimens for a growing collection. Then his two favorite passions collided! He picked up his brush and began a series of mineral paintings. Watercolor was chosen as the medium, samples from his collection and a few borrowed from friends became his subjects. The paintings are actually a watercolor-based mixed medium. Opaque paints are applied wherever necessary to achieve the end results he is looking for. They are not meant to be photographic representations, but as he puts it, “they are meant to capture the spontaneity of that moment when you see a specimen for the first time, and to capture the essence of the beauty of minerals”. His paintings and limited edition prints are displayed at various Mineral Shows including the Connecticut Valley Mineral Club Show in Connecticut, the East Coast Show held in West Springfield, Mass, various other New England Shows, and the Inn Suites at the Tucson Arizona Show.
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#MA58 Fluorite Wise Mine, Westmoreland, NH Specimen: Collection of Robert Borofsky ORIGINAL SOLD LIMITED EDITION (50) PRINTS 16”x 20” Matted Print Price: $60.00 11”x 17” Print Only Price: $50.00	#MA89 Pink Fluorite Pakistan CUSTOM FRAMED ORIGINAL 22”x 28” Watercolor Price: RESERVED LIMITED EDITION (6) PRINTS 17”x 22” Matted Print Price: $95.00
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Chromolithographic print of a watercolor painting (1914) by an unknown artist, from a specimen in the collection of Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; shown 10 cm across (actual size?). Reproduced from Plate 9, Figure 38a of Artini's I Minerali (1914)(Mineralogical Record Library.	www.wpclipart.com	Fluorite from Cumberland(?), England Chromolithographic print of a watercolor painting (1914) by an unknown artist, from a specimen in the collection of Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; shown 10 cm across (actual size?). Reproduced from Plate 10, Figure 38b of Artini's I Minerali (1914)(Mineralogical Record Library.

Raymond Perlman
(born in 1923)
Raymond Perlman earned degrees in Fine Art from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and also earned a Master of Professional Arts degree from the Art Center School in Los Angeles. He then joined the art faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, eventually achieving the rank of Full Professor of Art (in charge of graphic design) in the 1950's. His published artworks are almost entirely devoted to the illustration of children's books, many in collaboration his friend Herbert S. Zim (1909-1994) as author. Perlman first worked with Zim on What's Inside the Earth (1953), What's Inside Engines (1953) and Things Around the House (1954), all children's books. His earliest published mineralogical artworks appeared in Zim and Paul Shaffer's Rocks and Minerals (1957), a basic mineral book for young people which has undergone numerous reprintings over the years. Many of the same illustrations were used in Zim and Shaffer's The Golden Stamp Book of Rocks and Minerals (1958). Perlman also illustrated The Pacific Northwest: A Guide to the Evergreen Playground (1959) by Zim and Natt Dodge, The Story of Geology (1960) by Jerome Wyckoff, Zim's Rocks and How They Were Formed (1961), Geology (A Golden Guide book) by Frank Rhodes, and Fossils: A Guide to Prehistoric Life (1962), by Rhodes, Shaffer and Zim (with 481 illustrations by Perlman), Secrets of the Earth (1967) by Wyckoff, Inside the Earth (1968) by Wyler, Light and Color (1971) by Clarence Rainwater, Steine und Steinsammlungen (1972) by Eva Evans, Ecology (1973) by Alexander and Fichter, and Gesteine und Bodenschatze (1984) by Alice Martin and Bertha Parker. Raymond Perlman is currently retired and living in West End, North Carolina.
Wendell .E.Wilson

Fluorite with quartz prisypki. The change of the growth form from octahedron to cube with formation of phantom.	Fluorite. The change of the growth form from octahedron to cube with formation apex-edge skeletal forms.
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Arthur Smith
(1916-1991)
British artist Arthur Smith was one of the leading scientific illustrators of the 20th century. He was also highly prolific, producing during his lifetime nearly 20,000 illustrations of insects as well as illustrating 56 periodical articles and several books. He was born at Eastburn in Yorkshire, England, and as a boy became interested in natural history. At 15 years of age he won a scholarship to the Keighly School of Arts and Crafts and later went on to study at the Royal College of Art, London. Smith was based at the British Museum (Natural History) from 1940 to 1973. Most of his artwork consists of detailed scientific line drawings. He developed a technique of using a combination of watercolor, colored inks and coloured pencil to produce his drawings. His natural history work included vertebrates, minerals and precious stones.
Smith produced 16 very competent and attractive color-plate illustrations of mineral specimens for Semi-Precious Stones (1952), written by Nora Wooster of the Brooklyn Crystallographic Laboratory at Cambridge University, England. In the acknowledgments Smith and Wooster thank the following people for access to mineral specimens that were illustrated: Dr. Campbell Smith, Keeper of Minerals at the British Museum (Natural History); Dr. J. Phemister of the Geological Survey and Museum, London; and Prof. C. E. Tilley of the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge University. Mr. C. H. Benson of the Museum of Practical Geology, and Miss J. M. Sweet of the British Museum (Natural History) are thanked "for help given in the drawing of the plates."
W.E.W.

Fluorite from Derbyshire, England Watercolor/ink/pencil drawing on art paoer, 4.5 x 7 inches (1952); drawn from a specimen in the British Museum (Natural History), London. Published as Plate 15 in Nora Wooster's Semi-Precious Stones.	Fluorite from the Ullcoats mine, Cumberland, England Watercolor/ink/pencil drawing on art paoer, 4.5 x 7 inches (1952); drawn from a specimen in the British Museum (Natural History), London. Published as Plate 14 in Nora Wooster's Semi-Precious Stones.	Fluorite with Quartz and Chalcopyrite Watercolor/ink/pencil drawing on art paoer, 4.5 x 7 inches (1952); drawn from a specimen in the British Museum (Natural History), London. Published as Plate 1 in Nora Wooster's Semi-Precious Stones.

Philip Rashleigh
(1729-1811)
Philip Rashleigh was born in Aldermanbury, London, in 1729, the son of a Member of Parliament and Cornish landowner. He attended Oxford but left without attaining a degree. He was elected a Member of Parliament himself in 1764, and continued to serve until the dissolution of the body in 1802; he was well respected there, and in his elder years was known as "the father of the House of Commons." Rashleigh is famous among mineral collectors for the superb collection of Cornish minerals he assembled, and for the two color-plate-illustrated volumes he published in 1797 and 1802 describing his collection.
Rashleigh began studying minerals at least as early as 1758 (when he was among the subscribers to William Borlase's Natural History of Cornwall), and had begun actively collecting Cornish minerals by 1765. By 1794, after three decades of collecting, his assemblage of over 4,000 mineral specimens was described as "rich and magnificent" in books, gazetteers and travel guides of the day. As early as 1791 he had been searching for "a good clever man to draw and color some of my minerals," and ultimately is said to have hired a prominent Cornish enamel painter, Henry Bone (1755-1834), to prepare the paintings for producing 33 engravings (to be hand-colored) illustrating 194 specimens. These were published in 1797 as Specimens of British Minerals, Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh… He was not entirely satisfied with the results, however, and complained that "there is great difficulty in representing minerals on paper." Nevertheless, he engaged several artists to produce a second volume in 1802, with 21 hand-colored plates depicting 48 specimens. The artists included Rashleigh's sister Rachel (wife of mineral collector John Gould), a well-known watercolorist and geologist named Thomas Richard Underwood (1765-1836), and a London engraver named Thomas Medland (fl.1777-1833). Paintings for a third, never-published volume were prepared by Harriet Rashleigh, Miss F. Rashleigh, and James Sowerby. Philip Rashleigh died at his family home, Menabilly, in 1811; most of his collection and the original paintings of his minerals are preserved in the British Museum, London, and in the County Museum, Truro.
W.E.W.
Reference: Jones, R. W. (1995) Philip Rashleigh and his Specimens of British Minerals (1797 and 1802). Mineralogical Record, 26, 77-84.

Galena on White Fluorite from Derbyshire Hand-colored engravings (1797) by Henry Bone, depicting a 5.1-inch specimen (from the collection of Philip Rashleigh) actual size. Mineralogical Record Library.