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Lost in the shuffle of the transition from realist to modern art, William Walcot etchings are rendered as he saw them: historical recordings, done in a delicate impressionist style, with shadows of a modernist touch. While the main focus is architectural, many of his etchings include people and things, taking the etchings from mere illustration and crossing over into the fine art realm. The delicate renderings are reminiscent of Lynn Chadwick or Giacometti with elongated figures and tapered “feet”. The sophisticated architecture gives us a recording of the day and the figures represent a …