Working at the Atelier 17 from 1978-79 was the experience of a lifetime!

I loved working at the Atelier 17 from 1978-1979! Very stimulating time of my life, really very productive!

Great experience, great memories, great atmosphere to fly solo like a bird off the wire, in my etching burin, engraving, mezzotint, burin, roller and oils and printing inks and viscosity and thumb and finger prints attire!

Some of my early prints as I was learning tgat I did working in @WilliamStanleyHayter @Atelier17 with @HectorSaunier and Juan and Bill Hayter himself that started the whole experience off doing the small plate with textures and forms and lines to give the illusion od 3-D perspective of depth. I still have the drawinf that Bill did to illustrate this thatcI have included here in an earlier post. Check it out.

Anthony Alan Quinn happy Monday January 12,2026 3:05pm as I start this and add some of these earlier prints I made and phitographed outdoors earlier today. Enjoy this etching artist proof is titled : Freedom of Choice , Choice of Art,nChoice of Freedom

this etching artist proof is titled : Taken with the grun tu molani " a reference to the novel by Saul Bellow " Henderson the rain king ".

more still to cone! Tony My ctual zinc plate that I used to make the experimental plate with a 3-D effect desired under the direction of Bill Hayter. It has that protective sticky backed plastic over it now to protect if from the acis bath as I used the other side to make another etching,

Added on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 just now at 5:30pm. Tony The other etching is scraped into the green protective layer to reveal the zinc surface and two figures walking, one being carried dragged along by the other. Enjoy!

Working at the Atelier 17 with William Stanley Hayter at 10 Rue Didot in the 14th arrondisement in Paris, France in 1978-79 ( working with fellow artists Pedro Ruiz, Colombian ; Fred Jones British living in Galesburg, Illinois, Jean Clerte, Frenchman from Paris, Deborah Kaplan, American ; George Ball, American; Ediria Carneiro, Sau Paulo, Brasil; Margaret Keith, American from Alabama ; Hideko Seki female from Japan ; Ofelia Ingram, Bogota, Columbia ; Akemi Noguchi, Japan ; Carol Field, New Jersey, USA ; Snaige Sileika, Canadian/Lithuanian descent, Toronto ; Bruce Dunnet, Canadian,; Peter Bond, Australian, Junko Kobayashi, Japan; Vicki M. Mattice; Jennifer Clark, American, Washington DC ; Poncho Morial, Mexico ; Cristina Piceda, Buenos Aires, Argentina ; Mansor Ibrahim, Malaysia, Selanger ; Miguel Espinoza, Arequipa, Peru ; Mariane Aublet, French, Paris ; Tsugua Yanai, Japan ; Honda, Japan ... ) was amazing and I loved it and am very grateful for this amazing experience working with so many fine artists from around the world " Krishna Reddy, and so many others, Pedro, Dallas, Franca, Marianne, Seki, ...

Here are some great pictures I took, and some taken for me working at the great Atelier 17 in Paris, France in the 14th arrondisement at 10 Rue Didot, and having coffee next door at Madame Paulette's incredible Tabac/ café , restaurant : amazing times, amazing people, loved it soooooo. Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn , today Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 - happy new year, happy new decade -

I had this idea to take all these pictures of us that etched with Bill Hayter, Hector, too at Atelier 17 

Here are the names of many of the people that etched with me at the Atelier 17. This is from a book of sketches and art that they each did for me as a present. I love it, I cherish it. Cheers, merci, thanks, grazie, obregado, … sante!

Later I went on the manage the Atelier 63 of Joelle Serve that also etched with Bill Hayter at one point. I managed her Atelier de Gravure at 54, Rue Daguerre, also in the 14th arrondisement at 54 Rue Daguerre. I loved that experience afterward and worked with many French aspiring artists. It was great. Merci Joelle!

I did this for the experience and to not have to pay a monthly fee to etch. It saved me money that helped as I was paid a monthly salary as a male aupair of 1,200 francs!

This drawing and also letter sent to me by fellow American artist Fred Jones I received one year after he left the Atelier 17!

Everyone including me here above loved Madame Paulette - here in her Tabac/ Café!

The drawings Bill Hayter drew in my sketch book ( two different sketch books - both drawings demonstrating the objectives with our first plate ) showing us how to do our first etching exercise with textures, space, volume, etcetera ... And below those two drawings by Hayter are my two prints of the original zinc plate I made showing space and dimension.

Christina Piced above laughing at Madame Paulette's!

Above one of my etchings of this same beggar woman from the Metro Trocadero.

The beggar woman I often sketched at the Metro Trocadero that no one stopped so say hello / bonjoir, give her money, . I saw her, I often sketched her.

I love to draw, in my notebooks.

My watercolor I did along with many others that sometimes became etchings.

Notes in one of my many notebooks I carried around Paris/

My etching I entitled : " Freedom of Choice - Choice of Freedom "

Bruce Dunnet's drawing for his etching.

More to come, this is just the beginning, stay tuned for more. Cheers all. Merci a tous. Anthony TONY Quinn le 19 Fevrier ici chez Quinn's Aux Etats-Unis 2020