The Quiet Hand of the Etcher Abraham Mark Datz arrived in the United States in 1903, leaving behind Russia to settle in the crowded, working streets of New York. He was a man who understood the weight of a line, whether it was carved into a metal plate or laid down in oil. His hands moved between the precision of etching and the broader, more tactile application of paint. He did not merely observe the world; he traced its edges and its…