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