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The Cornwall Historical Society in Cornwall, Connecticut, where
Landeck lived and worked, has sold reproductions of this etching.
According to the society, the artist moved to Cornwall in the
1930s. He relocated to New York City, where he worked and taught
at the Brearley School, an independent school for girls. He and
fellow etcher Martin Lewis opened a school for printmakers in
George Miller’s 14th Street Studio in Manhattan.
Landeck later returned to Cornwall. His views of New York City
and rural Connecticut garnered numerous honors.
As several critics have noted, Landeck's scenes owe something
to the works of Edward Hopper in their sense of isolation and
to Charles Burchfield, in whose work inanimate objects serve
to show emotion.
Landeck was born in Wisconsin and trained as an architect at
Columbia University.
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