Apple Peeler II

Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Apple Peeler II", shows the simple tool influenced in part by Yves Tanguy. It was created in 1992 an edition of 50. This image is in the following collections: Herakleidon Museum in Athens, Greece. The image is # 53 in the catalogue raisonne. Carol Wax's newly revised second edition of her book on the Mezzotint has just been released.  Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her first book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting. In compositions reflecting an appreciati