American Monotypes from the Baker/Pisano Collection | Page 9

such broad interests would involve himself in monotype, and he first made monotypes as a student in Munich in the mid-1870s.2 Certainly, the exhibition of Edgar Degas’ (French, 1834–1917) monotypes, printed in black ink heightened with pastel colors after printing, in the third Impressionist exhibition of 1877 would have brought the medium into the limelight for Americans in Europe. Frank Duveneck knew Chase as a fellow student at the Munich Academy, and may also have learned about monotype there, but a group of his fellow American artists in Florence, Italy, called the Duveneck Boys, were among the first to popularize the process. They regularly socialized and in the winter of 1879-80 made mono