7. Etchings (1944-1947) and Early Irish Wood Engravings

Included here are etchings made 1946-1947 from sketches of Ireland, England, France, Luxembourg and Germany. When the army sent him abroad in 1943, DePol started to make drawings of the landscapes and villages he visited during the next few years while serving in the army as an Intelligence Specialist. After demobilization, DePol returned to New York and resumed etching, which he had taught himself in 1935, using many of his drawings as subjects. Included in the entries below are the catalog numbers from James Fraser’s, John DePol, A Catalogue Raisonne of his Graphic Work, 1935-1998, referenced as (Fraser, [number]), and, where appropriate, from Renee Weber’s catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition Ireland Remembered (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson, 1982), and referenced as (Weber, [number]). Also included here are wood engravings DePol made from Irish and English sketches, as well as some other miscellaneous early (pre-1950) wood engravings.