Art By Rothwell
Etchings by E.B.Rothwell
Chess
Chess
This video describes Elaine's transition from pen & ink drawings to etchings. Her drawings used a stipple technique with many thousands of dots creating the image.

The series was first shown at the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA in December 1976. The series was also the subject of a cover story in the March 1979 issue of Chess Life Magazine. The etching "Pawn Pun" was featured on the cover. Thirty-six years later "Pawn Pun" again appeared on a cover, this time Chess Life for Kids, August 2015.

Elaine culminated the series in 1980 with "The Knight's Scutcheon" which appeared on the cover of Chess n Stuff in October of that year and won the Chess journalism award for best cover art. This etching went on to become the 2008 winner of American Artists Professional League Alma M. Preed Memorial Award.

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B-Q3! B-Q3!
5 etchings are available
$300

Black's Blues Black's Blues
0 etchings are available
$4800

Checkmate Checkmate
9 etchings are available
$270

Common Ground Common Ground
38 etchings are available
$105

Drawing for White Drawing for White
6 etchings are available
$60

Drawn Game Drawn Game
0 etchings are available
$1200

Game of the Century Game of the Century
6 etchings are available
$2400

Jete Jete
0 etchings are available
$1020

King Pin King Pin
22 etchings are available
$270

Offensive Player Offensive Player
3 etchings are available
$60

Pawn Pun Pawn Pun
35 etchings are available
$150

Relics Relics
37 etchings are available
$150

The Kingdom The Kingdom
5 etchings are available
$75

The Knight's Scutcheon, color The Knight's Scutcheon, color
4 etchings are available
$810

The Knight's Scutcheon, black and silver The Knight's Scutcheon, black and silver
3 etchings are available
$225

The Pawn's Prologue The Pawn's Prologue
6 etchings are available
$300

The Rookery The Rookery
0 etchings are available
$1500

White's Greens White's Greens
0 etchings are available
$4800