{"title":"Drawings","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"exquisite-corpse-cadavre-exquis-spanish-surrealist-drawing-3-artists","title":"Exquisite Corpse, Cadavre Exquis, Spanish Surrealist Drawing 3 Artists","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 14.5, W: 10.5 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvenance: This piece was deaccessioned from the Bass museum in Miami Beach florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis piece is a good museum example of Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis), A method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. This example is by Manuel Saez, Xisco Mensua and Guillermo Paneque.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed. The technique was invented by surrealists. Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching. In the beginning were Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, Benjamin Péret, Pierre Reverdy, and André Breton. Other participants probably included Max Morise, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Simone Collinet, Tristan Tzara, Georges Hugnet, René Char, and Paul and Nusch Éluard. Henry Miller often partook of the game to pass time in French cafés during the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManuel Sáez (born 6 March 1961) is a Spanish, self-taught artist. Since 1984, he has been living and working in Valencia. The Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada Europeo-Americana describes Manuel Sáez as among the most important painters of the turn of the 21st century owing to his simultaneously sensual and psychological approach to the world of objects, landscapes, figures and portraits. As a resident fellow of the Spanish Fine Arts Academy in Rome in 1990, Sáez elaborated a series of portraits called Biografia no autorizada In 1991 Sáez held his first important show at the Fundació La Caixa. in Valencia In 1996 he presented his first retrospective, Colección Exclusiva 1984-1995, in the Club Diario Levante of Valencia, as well as the Madrid Circle of Fine Arts, the Salas Verónicas of Murcia, the Castellón Delegation and the Brocense of Cáceres. In 2000 Sáez exhibited in Mexico City's Museo Rufino Tamayo and in the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) in Valencia. In 2008 Sáez's work could be seen at the Sala Parpalló in Valencia. In 2003-04, Dispersions was exhibited at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami. In 2007, Sáez's work is featured in the Valencian Institute of Modern Art's (IVAM) El Pop Art en la Colección del IVAM (\"Pop Art in the IVAM Collection\") in Valencia.[12]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eXisco Mensua Initially studied at Escuelas Virtèlia, but followed an atypical school career due to illness. Began to paint in 1978. Took a course in painting at the Escola d’Arts i Oficis (Valencia), where he had lived since the age of eight. Lived in Barcelona from 1982 to 1987, studying art at the Escola Eina for the first two years. Returned to Valencia and began exhibiting in 1990. Produced works in co-operation with Fernando Ros and Mim Juncà, as well as designing stage sets for the theatre. Now forms part of the Jacques Moran collective. Through drawing, Mensua creates a fictional world in an exercise in which he transfigures common references, whether intimate or biographic, political or social.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuillermo Paneque\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeville, 1963 Spanish painter. He completed his artistic training at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville, Director and founder, along with Rafael Agredano and José Espaliú, of the magazine Figura in 1984. It is in the mid-eighties when his work is made known within the Andalusian artistic scene, through the production of small format paintings populated with references and symbols from the religious and everyday environment that the author mixes with a playful sense and with erotic characters that reveal a clear rejection of the Andalusian artistic tradition. His work evolves towards a formal synthesis and an iconographic cleansing in the line of conceptual art. He has starred in numerous solo exhibitions and participated in important collectives, among which include: Aperto 86 at the Venice Biennial (1986), Spain 87. Dynamiques and Interrogations (1987) at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris, Spanish natures. 1940-1987 (1987) at the Reina Sofía Art Center Museum and Painters of Seville. 1952-1992 (1992) in the Royal Monastery of San Clemente in Seville.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628212420906,"sku":"a_12857052S1","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/Xisco1_master_4b56ba57-9577-4737-b646-9680fadcba46.jpg?v=1780507232"},{"product_id":"mixed-media-outsider-art-original-photo-collage-drawing-2-sided","title":"Mixed Media Outsider Art Original Photo Collage Drawing 2 Sided","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 15.5, W: 14.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Carapic (born 1939), full name Tomislav Sava Čarapić, is an artist who specialises in found object artwork. He also does street art. A prominent Outsider Artist he was a featured artist in the American Visionary Art Museum's End is Near Exhibit. His work was also featured in the exhibition catalog. His work has been sold at Slotin Folk Art. Carapic was born in Velisevac, Serbia (then Kingdom of Yugoslavia). He was educated at a military school in Herzegovina in the 1950s, and served as a sergeant in the Yugoslav People's Army. Afterwards he was denied a college education, possibly because he was not a member of the Communist Party, illegally crossed into Italy in 1961, and, from there, emigrated to the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1965, he began attending classes at the New York Art Students League, but dropped out soon afterwards, eventually attending the Wilfred Academy of Beauty Culture. He was unable, however, to find steady beauty parlor employment, and worked in menial labor while attending classes in Spanish Education at Manhattan Community College. Due to a problem with accreditation, he was forced to switch to classes in the field of studio art. There he experienced hallucinatory visions that explained his repeated failures to obtain a degree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1970s, Carapic began experiencing more hallucinatory visions; claiming that his degree problems were caused when \"the evil marriage bureau massed the troops\" against his college and proceeded with \"an Air force bombardment\" of the school. After receiving other visitations, he began making and showing his art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of his art is centered on found objects, most famously computer keyboards, especially those by IBM. Most of his art consists of these objects, marked with black Sharpie markers, and with green thumbprints and handprints along the objects. His most famous exhibit in New York City is \"Big Bang Theory,\" a doomsday warnings painted on computer keyboards and shoes and construction debris. Bears similarity to the Art Brut movement made famous by Jean Dubuffet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was inluded in The End is Near! an exhibit which included an unprecedented group of noted thinkers, from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Stephen Jay Gould to Reverend Howard Finster and Apocalypse culture expert ,Adam Parfrey, visionary artists brought together by curator, Roger Manley, for an amazing exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum, the world’s largest ever mounted on the subjects of Apocalypse, Millennium, and Utopia. The End is Near! featuredwork from the following visionary artists amongst others: William Adkins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZ.B. 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He teaches at the Art Students League in NYC. He has exhibited his work frequently, both in the United States and in Europe. His most recent one-man show in New York was in 2010 at Lori Bookstein Gallery. Mr. Shahn has taught at the Tyler School in Rome, Boston University, and the Maryland Institute, among others. The son of famed Social Realist artist Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, the photographer\/muralist who worked alongside Walker Evans and Diego Rivera, and his painter\/illustrator wife. Both are credited with establishing Roosevelt as the arts community it became after the federal government’s failed effort to create farmsteads for New York City’s garment workers during the 1930s. Ben Shahn’s famous mural in the Roosevelt Public School depicts the escape from New York’s dark tenements and sweatshops to Louis Kahn-designed, light-filled homes and cooperative farms and a factory out in the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExhibitions Go Figure, George Billis Gallery, New York Family Business, Susan Teller Gallery, New York Disegno!, National Academy of Design Annual, New York Sculpture, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco (solo) Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA (solo) The Making of a Monument: Drawings, Maquettes, Models for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in Jersey City Material Language: Small Scale Sculpture after 1950, Princeton University Museum, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ (solo) National Academy of Design Annual Smith College, Northhampton, MA (drawings) (solo) O’Hara Gallery, NYC Readers: Works from the Donald Oresman Collection, Grolier Club, NYC Real People: Six Artists, Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ (solo) Sculpture Center, NYC (solo)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628233261354,"sku":"a_13001692S1","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_6F4B2561BDA4408397A973D2DFD8FA91_master_85cf5289-41e5-421c-bfc7-ab5d3b8690d8.jpg?v=1780507397"},{"product_id":"large-abstract-landscape-pastel-drawing-painting-san-francisco-artist-megan-6","title":"Large Abstract Landscape Pastel Drawing Painting San Francisco Artist, Megan #6","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 30.0, W: 42.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has a variegated texture to it. 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After coming to the Bay Area, he held his first local one-man show of sculpture in 1973, at the James Willis Gallery in San Francisco. His body of work includes site-specific installations, collage, drawings, pastels, and sculpture in wood and bronze. In each case, the landscape, natural forms and textures, and the artist's relationship to them were of central focus. Over the course of his career the artist has had more than eighty exhibitions, and his works were exhibited widely at such institutions as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Djerassi Foundation. 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It is signed and titled. Large format drawing or painting in pastel or crayon. pastoral landscape with boulders and rocks in pasture. Dennis Leon, was a San Francisco Bay Area sculptor and art instructor Mr. Leon was chairman of the sculpture department at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland from 1972 to 1988. He remained a faculty member until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1993. A vibrant work in pastel with the energy and texture seen in the work of Wolf Kahn. He was born in London, England and emigrated in 1951 to the United States, where he studied at Temple University in Philadelphia. He graduated with art degrees, including a master's degree in fine art. He served in the U.S. Army and the Army Reserve from 1957 to 1963. In 1959, Mr. Leon joined the faculty of the Philadelphia Museum College of Art. He also worked as an art critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer until 1962. After coming to the Bay Area, he held his first local one-man show of sculpture in 1973, at the James Willis Gallery in San Francisco. His body of work includes site-specific installations, collage, drawings, pastels, and sculpture in wood and bronze. In each case, the landscape, natural forms and textures, and the artist's relationship to them were of central focus. Over the course of his career the artist has had more than eighty exhibitions, and his works were exhibited widely at such institutions as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Djerassi Foundation. 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After coming to the Bay Area, he held his first local one-man show of sculpture in 1973, at the James Willis Gallery in San Francisco. His body of work includes site-specific installations, collage, drawings, pastels, and sculpture in wood and bronze. In each case, the landscape, natural forms and textures, and the artist's relationship to them were of central focus. Over the course of his career the artist has had more than eighty exhibitions, and his works were exhibited widely at such institutions as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Djerassi Foundation. 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He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting. Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry \u0026amp; artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts \u0026amp; History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalomar College, San Marcos, Calif. San Diego Academy of Fine Arts Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA) University of San Diego San Diego Museum of Art James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif. Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy Centre de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France Gordon Gilkey Collection Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or. Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Ore. 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Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist nude and animal drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry \u0026amp; artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts \u0026amp; History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalomar College, San Marcos, Calif. San Diego Academy of Fine Arts Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA) University of San Diego San Diego Museum of Art James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif. Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy Centre de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France Gordon Gilkey Collection Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or. Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Ore. 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Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist nude and animal drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry \u0026amp; artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts \u0026amp; History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalomar College, San Marcos, Calif. San Diego Academy of Fine Arts Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA) University of San Diego San Diego Museum of Art James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif. Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy Centre de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France Gordon Gilkey Collection Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or. Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Ore. Portland art museum Museu Calouste Gulbenkian Asheville Art Museum\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628248727850,"sku":"a_13192982S1","price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_46F9554DD2C54F4681F5B4ACB81EB059_master_e8002cc5-fc5d-49ae-bf52-00651d624bcd.jpg?v=1780507567"},{"product_id":"mixed-media-conceptual-art-sculpture-drawing-human-rights-welded-iron","title":"MIxed Media Conceptual Art Sculpture Drawing Human Rights Welded Iron","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 94.0, W: 11.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a large sculpture and also includes an artist custom framed silkscreen with extensive handwork titled Line of Time, pencil signed and inscribed, presented in heavy metal and wooden frame (framed piece 24.5 x 30 in., sculpture piece is about 94 X 11 inches)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancoise Schein is a visual artist, trained as an architect - urban planner; She also teaches art at the ESAM Higher School of Arts and Media in Caen in Normandy . She is the founder of the INSCRIRE Association. In 2016, she was elected member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Arts and Fine Arts of Belgium. Group Exhibitions Spain: 2016, The \"5Contemporary\" Paris gallery presented a group show at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Genalguacil, Spain. The show included important artists such as Françoise Schein, Mimouni and Pedro Castrortega. Born in Brussels , Françoise Schein left Belgium after studying architecture at the higher institute of architecture of the French community - La Cambre where she wrote her thesis on fundamental rights, then studied urban design at the Columbia University in the City of New York . She lived 11 years in New York where she begins a work on cartography territories. Subway map Floating on NY Sidewalk is his first monumental urban sculpture located at 110 Greene Street in SoHo (1985). At that time her works are abstract landscapes of cities, made up of networks, lines, trajectories, territories, founding texts and stories. They are constructed of very diverse materials and light. Returning back to Europe in 1989, she continues to work on what she calls her drawings-laboratories while beginning to integrate works in cities on civic themes, the main ones: at the Concorde metro station in Paris in 1991 and then in Brussels, Saint-Gilles , in 1992, these two projects took her to Lisbon in 1993 where she lived for five years and produced two monumental works (in azulejos) for the city of Lisbon at Parque metro station ( 1994) and another for the city of Stockholm at the Universitetet station (1998). She continues to travel to cities where she builds successively projects in Haifa , on the facade of the Beth Hagefen Jewish-Arab Cultural Center with Michel Butor (1994). Then she lives in Berlin where she builds the Westhafen station (2000) which takes her to Bremen to make her first human rights park, Rhododendronpark (2002). In 2005, she made the monumental Time Zone Clock in Coventry in 2005. Since 1999, she has also settled in Rio de Janeiro and initiated participatory artistic projects with the underprivileged population of the favelas . Since then, with the help of a locally trained team, many projects have been carried out, including one in Copacabana and more than 20 in different favelas (from 1999 to 2016). These works transformed the Rio workshop into sustainable development for the people who invested it. In Sao Paulo, since 2009, Françoise Schein has produced a monumental work with the participation of 1000 young people from the favela schools at Luz subway station. Her work is monumental recalling the works of Christo, Maria Dompe, Christian Boltanski, Anish Kapoor, Ai Wei Wei and others in her use of size and landscape incorporating them into her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Europe, Françoise Schein works with the Association Inscrire and with the Centro de Informação Europeia Jacques Delors (CIEJD) in Lisbon , to distribute an educational kit of reflections and artistic creation on the notion of citizenship, addressed to secondary schools . Since 2003, this educational project has already been carried out in many cities and schools in France, Belgium, England, Portugal and Spain. Ramallah is, of course, on the path of the artist ... In Port-au-Prince in Haiti, she works on her projects with the NGO Fokal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2014, the CIVA Museum of Brussels - International Center for the City and Architecture - dedicates a retrospective which was then presented to the MAB-FAAP Museum of Sao Paulo in 2015, Museum of Brazilian Art - Armando Foundation Alvares Penteado. This exhibition will be presented at the National Historical Museum of Rio de Janeiro in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrançoise Schein is fluent in English and Portuguese , in addition to French . It is these 20 years of artistic work and public works that have given her the desire to share her knowledge of an urban team work experience. In 1997 , she founded the Association Register to produce citizen projects in disadvantaged areas, such as favelas in Brazil or the European suburbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn parallel with her participatory and social artistic works with the Association Inscription, Françoise Schein develops her own works, sculptures, cartographic photos-drawings and videos to express the encounters of a world no longer composed only of territories and abstract networks, but of complex knowledge and very powerful human links.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628260950314,"sku":"a_13369382S1","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/Schein_master_80242a91-1ba9-4874-83d9-1f67a01aec9e.jpg?v=1780507717"},{"product_id":"pulitzer-prize-winner-norman-mailer-portrait-etching-line-drawing","title":"Pulitzer Prize Winner Norman Mailer Portrait Etching Line Drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 26.0, W: 19.75 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigned. Numbered line etching\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which uses the style and devices of literary fiction in fact-based journalism. Mailer was also known for his essays, the most famous and reprinted of which is \"The White Negro\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin (born February 12, 1923) is an American painter, sculptor and muralist. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 till 1950. He is one of the leading members of the New York School of artists and writers. He lives and works in New York City. Notable work Venus (1970), Woman with bicycle (1979) Awards Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, NEA Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal (Artists' Fellowship, Inc.), Mary \u0026amp; Maxwell Desser Memorial Award (National Academy of Design), J. Sanford Saltus Medal for Painting (National Academy of Design), Kept Memorial Prize (National Academy of Design), Desser Award for Painting (National Academy of Design), C.A.P.S. Grant, Longview Fellowships\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnox Martin is the oldest son of Lieutenant William Knox Martin, a Virginia-born early aviation pioneer and flyer, and his wife Isabel Vieco, who were married in the Canal Zone in Panama in 1921. Knox Martin Sr., painter, poet, early test pilot, was the first man to fly over the Andes mountains. Six years after his marriage, Martin Sr. was fatally injured in an automobile accident in Watertown, New York. His widow Isabel relocated with her three young sons from Salem, Virginia to New York City. After serving in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, Knox Martin attended the Art Students League of New York on the G.I. Bill from 1946 to 1950, where he studied with Harry Sternberg, Vaclav Vytlacil, Will Barnet, and Morris Kantor. In 1955, Willem de Kooning sent Meyer Schapiro to Knox Martin's studio to see Concert in the Park. He was a close personal friend of Willem De Kooning and Franz Kline. In 1954, Martin's friend Franz Kline placed a painting of his in the Stable Gallery Annual. Charles Egan of the Charles Egan Gallery saw Martin's painting at the Stable Gallery and asked him to show his work in a one-man show for the tenth anniversary of the Egan Gallery. Knox Martin is best known for his repertory of signs and symbols that allude to nature and, in particular, to the female form. Flatly and freely painted in brilliant colors, his works have often been executed on a grand scale, as in the outdoor wall painting, Woman with bicycle, at West Houston and MacDougal Streets in Manhattan. Bearing elements of Pop Art and elements of Abstract Expressionism, He mostly creates painting, sculpture and wall paintings using media such as acrylic, collage, fresco, ink drawing (pen and ink), mixed media\/multimedia, and oil paint. One of his wall paintings in New York City is the twelve-story mural Venus. Painted in 1970, it is located on the south side of Bayview Correctional Facility at 19th Street and the West Side Highway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSELECT COLLECTIONS Whitney Museum of American Art,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseum of Modern Art,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, (Smithsonian)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt Students League of New York,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn Museum of Art,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNational Academy of Design,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNational Arts Club,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York University,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbright-Knox Art Gallery,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt Institute of Chicago,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt Museum of Southeast Texas,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerkeley Art Museum,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoca Raton Museum of Art,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChrysler Museum of Art,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorcoran Gallery of Art,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDallas Museum of Art,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenver Art Museum,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeckscher Museum of Art,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvincetown Art Association and Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Israel Museum,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLudwig Museum in Budapest,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliothèque Nationale. Paris, France\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2002 Martin was named to the National Academy of Design. On November 14, 2016, France conferred the insignia of the Legion of Honour on Martin for his contribution to the liberation of France during World War II. Knox Martin gives master classes at the Art Students League of New York. He taught at Yale Graduate School of Art, first as visiting critic in art, invited by Jack Tworkov, and then as Professor of Art. He has also taught at New York University, the University of Minnesota, and the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628261933354,"sku":"a_13402122S1","price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_8F016ACA52F749228244F917B6B91E47_master_7c023578-bac6-4053-ac6e-30b95de2fe08.jpg?v=1780507738"},{"product_id":"charcoal-drawing-waiting-pensive-woman-americana-wpa-artist","title":"Charcoal Drawing \"Waiting\" Pensive Woman Americana WPA Artist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 22.5, W: 17.5 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14x11.5 image size , 22.5x17.5 backing size\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New-York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social concerns, and was actively engaged in support of the organized labor movement throughout his career. This original drawing is done in the iconic style of the artist's oeuvre. Surface: Paper (this is being sold unframed) Country: United States\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn to Harry and Jenny Gropper in 1897, William was raised in New York City's Lower East Side. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Romania and Ukraine, and young William grew up in relative poverty, watching his family struggle to achieve that sought-after American dream. His father, a bright and college-educated man, was unable to find employment that worthy of his intellect. His mother, meanwhile, worked as a seamstress from home. Coupled with the devastating loss of an aunt to the infamous Triangle Factory fire of 1911, significant childhood factors created the foundation that led to Gropper’s exploration of the American experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly on, Gropper displayed an extraordinary, natural skill for art. By 1912, he was already studying under the instruction of George Bellows and Robert Henri at the Ferrer School in Greenwich Village. During his time at school, Gropper was also awarded a prestigious scholarship to study at the National Academy of Design. However, he refused to fit into convention and was swiftly expelled from the Academy. After his expulsion, Gropper returned home to help financially by assisting his mother and taking a shop position. However, he didn't abandon art academia and soon presented a portfolio to the New York School of Fine Art which earned him a scholarship for study. Gropper obtained his first significant job as a cartoonist for the New York Tribune in 1917. While working as a staff cartoonist for the Tribune, he also contributed drawings to publications like Vanity Fair, New Masses, The Nation, and Freiheit. His interest in the welfare of the American worker, class inequality, and social injustice was central in his work. After publishing the graphic novel Alley Oop in 1930, Gropper's illustration career extended well into the decade. However, he was never exempt from controversy, and his 1935 Vanity Fair cartoon; prompted anger from the Japanese government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an involved labor organizer and Social Realist activist, Gropper continued to bring attention to his radical reputation with visits to the Soviet Union and Poland. However, his concern with European politics and U.S. social causes didn't slow down his artistic career, and by the late 1930s, he had produced significant murals for American cities like Washington D.C. His 1938 mural Construction of a Dam was commissioned for the Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and everyday societal life. Measuring at a staggering 27ft by 87ft, the piece portrays muscular, robust American laborers scaling rocky hillsides, building infrastructure, and operating heavy machinery. The mural feels undeniably American with golden scenery, denim blues, and steely gray colors. Gropper fits perfectly into Social-Realism because the style exhibits an illustrative flair with strong lines and simple, bold hues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe inspiration for Construction of a Dam sprang from his 1937 travels to the poverty-stricken Dust Bowl area. The trip was sponsored by a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and his drawings of the Grand Coulee and Boulder Dams were featured in The Nation. These drawings eventually led to the creation of the acclaimed mural. Gropper continued to produce more Social-Realist oil paintings and to frequent Europe for inspiration. Fascinated by American Folklore, he channeled that interest into his 1946 painting William Gropper's Americana: It's Folklore. The piece features a U.S. map packed with folklore characters, labor, violence, railroads, mining, and other historical symbols and events. While seemingly uncontroversial by today's standards, the piece caught the attention of the famous Senator Joseph McCarthy who was chairman of the Senate Committee of Government Operations. McCarthy believed the piece was inspired by Communist philosophy, and Gropper was called before the Subcommittee on Investigations in 1953; however, he refused to testify.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGropper landed exhibitions at London's Piccadilly Gallery and at La Galerie del Frente Nacional des Artes in Mexico City. A contemporary of Ben Shahn and Abraham Rattner. Turning his attention to decorative arts, he produced stained glass windows for Illinois' Temple Har Zion in 1966. Up until his death in 1977, the American master remained active in the Social-Realism style and committed to labor and injustice issues. 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His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art. an author of art books, etcher, painter of townscapes, landscapes, figure painting, muralist, and graphic silkscreen artist. Wolchonok was a social realist artist who worked in watercolors, oils, and prints. Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron Bohrod, Ilya Bolotowsky, Stuart Davis, Adolf Dehn, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Jan Matulka, Irene Rice Pereira, Louis Schanker and Jean Xceron.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe studied at National Academy of Design, Cooper Union Art School, City College of New York, Julian Academy, Paris, and the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe taught drafting at City College of NY from 1930; and design, painting and etching at the Craft Students League, YWCA, NY, NY from 1932. 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Published by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart They published concrete poetry and art books by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Boyle, Richard Hamilton, Dorothy Iannone, John Latham, Tom Phillips, Dieter Roth, André Thompkins and Emmett Williams, to name just a few. André Thomkins (1930 - 1985) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, and poet. He attended art-school, taught by Max von Moos, 1947 – 1949 and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France, 1950. From 1952, he lived in Germany and taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1971 and 1973.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomkins painted and drew ironic and fantastic pictures influenced by surrealism and dadaism. Together with Dieter Roth and Daniel Spoerri he prepared works of Eat Art. He also was a writer of palindromes. His friends and collaborators included Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, George Brecht, Richard Hamilton and Karl Gerstner, Thomkins gained a reputation as an ‘artist’s artist’, and is considered one of the most important Swiss artists of the second half of the twentieth century.He died in 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis work is currently represented by Hauser \u0026amp; Wirth Zurich, Switzerland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect group exhibitions: 2018 Kunsthalle Krems, 'Pablo Picasso. Arshile Gorky, Andy Warhol. Sculptures and Works on Paper. Hubert Looser Collection', Krems, Austria 2017 Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, 'Martin Barré, Karl Otto Götz, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, André Thomkins', Berlin, Germany 2013 Fabian \u0026amp; Claude Walter Galerie, 'Schweizer Avantgarde Kunst nach 1940', Zurich, Switzerland 2009 The Modern Institute, 'Thomas Houseago, Dieter Roth, Andre Thomkins', Glasgow, England Museum of Modern Art, 'Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Collection', NYC 2004 Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, 'Arman, Baumeister, Götz, Graubner, Tàpies, Thomkins', Berlin, Germany 1994 Kunstmuseum Solothurn, 'Eine Schenkung. Grafik von Eduardo Chillida, Antoni Tàpies, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Ben Nicholson, Giacometti, Tinguely, Thomkins', Solothurn, Switzerland 1992 Galerie Littmann, Tinguely zu Ehren. A Tribute to Jean Tinguely. Hommage à Tinguely, Basel,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1988 Museum Ludwig, 'Uebrigens sterben immer die anderen. Marcel Duchamp und die Avantgarde seit 1950', Cologne, Germany 1987 Aargauer Kunsthaus, 'Otto Grimm. Marc-Antoine Fehr. Christoph Gredinger', Aarau, Switzerland Cercle Municipal, 'Art contemporain suisse. Collection de la Banque du Gothard', Luxembourg, 1985 Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 'Livres d'artistes', Paris, France Rathaus, 'Claude Sandoz – Hans Schärer – André Thomkins', Sursee, Switzerland Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, 'Zeichner in Dusseldorf 1955-1985', Dusseldorf, Germany 1981 Musée Rath, 'Le dessin suisse 1970-1980', Geneva, Switzerland Galerie La Chudera, 'Kunst auf Furtschellas. Ursina Vinzenz. André Thomkins. Constant Könz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1972\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStaatsgalerie Stuttgart, 'Grenzgebiete der bildenden Kunst. Konkrete Poesie. Bild Text Textbilder. Computer-kunst. Musikalische Graphik', Stuttgart, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 'Contemporary Swiss Art', Tel Aviv, Israel Kunsthalle Basel, 'Metamorphose des Dinges', Basel, Switzerland Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, '31 Artistes Suisses Contemporains', Paris, France Museum Fridericianum, 'Documenta 5. Befragung der Realität. Bildwelten heute', Kassel, Germany Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, 'Marcel Broodthaers. Der Adler von Oligozän bis heute' 1967,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGalerie Heide Hildebrand, 'Möglichkeiten auf Papier', Klagenfurt, Germany Rathaus, 'Schweizer Künstler in Deutschland: Jürgen Brodwolf, Karl Gerstner, Alfonso Hüppi, Paul Hurt, Dieter Roth, Ed Sommer, André Thomkins', Erlangen, Germany\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628282741034,"sku":"a_13749202S1","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_7044BF257FC64F3FBC88CC66E1B5F4A6_master.jpg?v=1780507988"},{"product_id":"william-anthony-1992-caricature-drawing-will-you-marry-me","title":"William Anthony 1992 Caricature Drawing Will You Marry Me?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 5.75, W: 7.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Anthony, born 1934, Forth Monmouth, NJ. and grew up in Washington State. Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1958 Yale, New Haven, CT, B.A European History 1959-60 San Francisco Art Institute, CA 1961\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt Students League, NY American painter and draftsman William Anthony was born 1934 in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. While majoring in history at Yale University, Anthony attended a few art courses, one of which was taught by Josef Albers. He also attended the Art Students' League in 1958 and 1961. After graduating from Yale, he joined his family in California, where he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1962, Anthony taught figure drawing at a commercial art school in San Francisco, where he developed a method of drawing that resulted in his book A New Approach to Figure Drawing. Two years later he moved to New York City. From 1977 to 1978, Anthony made a series of drawings for Andy Warhol's magazine Interview, and published another book Bible Stories. In 1983, he married Norma Neuman, and continued to produce and exhibit his art work, including solo exhibitions in New York, California, and Europe. In 1988, the Jargon Society published an additional book, Bill Anthony's Greatest Hits. In 2000 another book, War Is Swell, was published by Smart Art Press. Since then he has had five one-man exhibitions with Stalke Gallery, Denmark. 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Hugo Scheiber was brought from Budapest to Vienna at the age of eight where his father worked as a sign painter for the Prater Theater. At fifteen, he returned with his family to Budapest and began working during the day to help support them and attending painting classes at the School of Design in the evening, where Henrik Papp was one of his teachers. He completed his studies in 1900. His work was at first in a post-Impressionistic style but from 1910 onward showed his increasing interest in German Expressionism and Futurism. This made it of little interest to the conservative Hungarian art establishment. However, in 1915 he met the great Italian avant-gardist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the two painters became close friends. Marinetti invited him to join the Futurist Movement. The uniquely modernist style that he developed was, however, closer to German Expressionism than to Futurism and eventually drifted toward an international art deco manner similar to Erté's. In 1919, he and his friend Béla Kádar held an exhibition at the Hevesy Salon in Vienna. It was a great success and at last caused the Budapest Art Museum to acquire some of Scheiber's drawings. Encouraged, Scheiber came back to live in Vienna in 1920. A turning point in Scheiber's career came a year later, when Herwarth Walden, founder of Germany's leading avant-garde periodical, Der Sturm, and of the Sturm Gallery in Berlin, became interested in Scheiber's work. Scheiber moved to Berlin in 1922, and his paintings soon appeared regularly in Walden's magazine and elsewhere. Exhibitions of his work followed in London, Rome, La Paz, and New York. Scheiber's move to Germany coincided with a significant exodus of Hungarian artists to Berlin, including Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Sandor Bortnyik. There had been a major split in ideology among the Hungarian avant-garde. The Constructivist and leader of the Hungarian avantgarde, Lajos Kassák (painted by Hugó Scheiber in 1930) believed that art should relate to all the needs of contemporary humankind. Thus he refused to compromise the purity of his style to reflect the demands of either the ruling class or socialists and communists. The other camp believed that an artist should be a figurehead for social and political change. The fall out and factions that resulted from this politicisation resulted in most of the Hungarian avant gardists leaving Vienna for Berlin. Hungarian émigrés made up one of the largest minority groups in the German capital and the influx of their painters had a significant effect on Hungarian and international art. Another turning point of Scheiber's career came in 1926, with the New York exhibition of the Société Anonyme, organized by Katherine Dreier. Scheiber and other important avant garde artists from more than twenty-three countries were represented. In 1933, Scheiber was invited by Marinetti to participate in the great meeting of the Futurists held in Rome in late April 1933, Mostra Nazionale d’Arte Futurista where he was received with great enthusiasm. Gradually, the Hungarian artists began to return home, particularly with the rise of Nazism in Germany. Kádar went back from Berlin in about 1932 and Scheiber followed in 1934. He was then at the peak of his powers and had a special flair in depicting café and cabaret life in vivid colors, sturdily abstracted forms and spontaneous brush strokes. Scheiber depicted cosmopolitan modern life using stylized shapes and expressive colors. His preferred subjects were cabaret and street scenes, jazz musicians, flappers, and a series of self-portraits (usually with a cigar). his principal media being gouache and oil. He was a member of the prestigious New Society of Artists (KUT—Képzőművészek Új Társasága)and seems to have weathered Hungary's post–World War II transition to state-communism without difficulty. He continued to be well regarded, eventually even receiving the posthumous honor of having one of his images used for a Russian Soviet postage stamp (see image above). Hugó Scheiber died in Budapest in 1950.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaintings by Hugó Scheiber form part of permanent museum collections in Budapest (Hungarian National Museum), Pecs (Jannus Pannonius Museum), Vienna, New York, Bern and elsewhere. His work has also been shown in many important exhibitions, including: \"The Nell Walden Collection,\" Kunsthaus Zürich (1945) \"Collection of the Société Anonyme,\" Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (1950) \"Hugó Scheiber: A Commemorative Exhibition,\" Hungarian National Museum, Budapest (1964) \"Ungarische Avantgarde,\" Galleria del Levante, Munich (1971) \"Paris-Berlin 1900-1930,\" Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1978) \"L’Art en Hongrie, 1905-1920,\" Musée d’Art et l’Industrie, Saint-Etienne (1980) \"Ungarische Avantgarde in der Weimarer Republik,\" Marburg (1986) \"Modernizmus,\" Eresz \u0026amp; Maklary Gallery, Budapest (2006) \"Hugó Scheiber \u0026amp; Béla Kádár,\" Galerie le Minotaure, Paris and Tel Aviv (2007) Hugó Scheiber's paintings continue to be regularly sold at Sotheby's, Christie's, Gillen's Arts (London), Papillon Gallery (Los Angeles) and other auction houses. He was included in the exhibition The Art Of Modern Hungary 1931\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand other exhibitions along with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVilmos Novak Aba, Count Julius Batthyany, Pal Bor, Bela Buky, Denes Csanky, Istvan Csok, Bela Czobel, Peter Di Gabor, Bela Ivanyi Grunwald, Baron Ferenc Hatvany, Lipot Herman, Odon Marffy,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eC. Pal Molnar, Istvan Szonyi, Istvan Pekary, Janos Vaszary,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandor Ziffer, Bela Kadar,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNagy Ilosvai Varga Gyula Batthyany, Hugo Scheiber, and Jozsef Egry. Bibliography A Storm in Europe: Béla Kádar, Hugó Scheiber and Der Sturm in Berlin (Ben Uri Gallery, The London Museum of Art, 2003)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628288901418,"sku":"a_13822732S1","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_0916419F8C8048ADB2787770E015514E_master_bcd4e9ab-a001-4213-a022-be9740fb8dba.jpg?v=1780508059"},{"product_id":"san-tubisco-season-s-greetings-holiday-drawing-artwork-poseidon-trident-bridge","title":"San Tubisco (Season's Greetings) Holiday Drawing Artwork Poseidon Trident Bridge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 13.25, W: 9.25 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGottfried Salzmann , born on 26 March 1943 In Saalfelden near Salzburg in Austria is an Austrian painter. He lives and works in France (between Paris and Vence) since 1965.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe studied from 1963 to 1965 at the school of fine arts of Vienne and then, from 1965 to 1968, at the Beaux-Arts of Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe exhibited for the first time in 1969 in Salzburg. He paints in watercolor, is also a draftsman, an engraver and a photographer; He sometimes painted on his pictures when he left the watercolor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1989, he illustrated by lithographs Situations de New York by Jean-Paul Sartre (edition Les Bibliophiles de France ).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrizes: 1972: David-Weill Drawing Prize, Paris - Theodor Körner Prize, Vienna 1975: Grand Prize of drawing of the \"Salzburger Wirschatskammer\" 1977: 1st international prize for watercolor in Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExhibitions: Personal exhibitions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermany: Krefeld (Galerie Peerlings), Düsseldorf (Galerie Walther), Cologne (Galerie Boisserée), Munich (Galerie Gunzenhauser, Galerie Seifert-Binder), Hamburg (Lochte Gallery), Darmstadt Gallery Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Mainz, Schweinfurt, Nüremberg (photographs), Aachen England: London (Albermale Gallery) Steyr, Innsbruck (Bloch Gallery, Maier Gallery), Lusteneau (Galerie Neufeld), Klagenfurt (Austria), Vienna (Galerie Würthle, Galerie Stubenbastei, Gallery Contact), Salzburg (Gallery Welz), Linz (Oberösterreichisches Kunstverein, (Künsterhaus, Slama Gallery), Graz, Bozen Belgium: Brussels United States: New York (Austrian Institute, KPF Gallery, Franklin Bowles Gallery), Washington DC (Bader Gallery) France: Paris (Galerie Flak, Gallery of the Atelier Lambert, Galerie l'Œil Sévigné, City Hall, Galerie Nichido, Galerie Étienne de Causans, Galerie Arcturus, Rouen (Center of Contemporary Art), Aachen, Amiens (House of Culture), Deauville, Tours Hungary: Budapest Japan: Tokyo (Nichido Gallery), Fukuoka (Nichido Gallery) Liechtenstein: Vaduz (Haas Gallery) Philippines: Manila Poland: Warsaw Switzerland: Bern (Galerie Vita), Basel, Lausanne, Friborg (Galerie Ollier) Latest exhibitions [ edit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChange the code ] 2009: Gallery New Art City, Lille Engravings, photo-forts, watercolors, Métairie Bruyère, Parly (89240) In museums: 1973: House of the culture of Amiens 1982: Museum of the Albertina of Vienna 1987: Staatliche Sammlungen Schweinfurt 1991: Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum Linz; Metropolitan Museum of Manila; Museum of Modern Art of the Rupertinium of Salzburg 1993: Museum of the Seita, Paris 1996: Center of contemporary art of Rouen (with Nicole Bottet) 1998: Benedictine Palace , Fécamp 2001: Museum of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, The Varenne 2003: Carolino Augusteum Museum of Salzburg 2006: Inauguration of the Gottfried Salzmann Hall at the Carolino Augusteum Museum in Salzburg\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628289032490,"sku":"a_13828352S1","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_6C791D77AEDA45B59A71B6CA6A41ADC3_master_59faef8b-124f-445a-89e6-6bda15ee5ed7.jpg?v=1780508065"},{"product_id":"abstract-gestural-drawing-chalk-and-charcoal-drawing-light-sculpture-artist","title":"Abstract Gestural Drawing Chalk and Charcoal Drawing, Light Sculpture Artist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 30.0, W: 22.25 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames O. Clark, American sculptor, art educator. Recipient Sculpture award, Creative Artists Public Service, 1978, award for sculpture, National Endowment for Arts, 1982, Graphics award, 1983; fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1989; grantee, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 1995, New York Counsel on Arts. Member selection committee Islip (New York ) Museum, 2002; Member of American Abstract Artist (associate; active 1999—2003).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2015 ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2011 RHV Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY 2010 Mariboe Gallery, Hightstown, NJ 2009 Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY 1998-9 “Tulips, Hysteria, Coordinating”, Nicholas Davies, New York, NY 1997 “James O. Clark”, Ohio University, Athens, OH 1994 The College of Saint Rose Art Gallery, Albany, NY 1991 Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY 1990 James O. Clark, Seibu Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 1989\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sculpture”, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2012 “Luminous Flux”, (Forrest Myers and James O. 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Clark, Gerald David, Radamés “Juni” Figueroa, Yann Gerstberger and Jocko Weyland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2013 \"Illuminators\", OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY 2013 \"Sideshow Nation\", Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013 \"Paperazzi 2\", Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2012 \"Summer Group Show\", Pace Gallery, New York, NY 2012 \"Group Show\", Oil and Steel Gallery, Long Island City, NY 2011 \"American Abstract Artists, 75th Anniversary\", OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY 2011 \"American Abstract Artists International, 75th Anniversary 1986-2011\", Deutscher Kunstlerbund, Berlin, Germany 2011 \"January White Show\", Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2008 \"American Abstract Artists: Tribute to Esphyr Slobodkina\", The Painting Center, New York, NY 2003 “3-2-1, 3-D Exquisite Corpse Project”, Gallery M, New York, NY 2003 Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Kingston, NY (Catalog) 2002 Lawson-Menzies Gallery, Sydney, Australia, (curated by Barbara Flynn) 2002 “Mask Exhibition”, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York 2002 “Brooklyn Rail Presents Selection 1”, Brooklyn, NY, (curated by Phong Bui) 1999 “Sculptors Draw”, Rosenberg \u0026amp; Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY “ 1999 “American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture 1997 “Summer Group Show”, Art et Industrie, New York, NY 1986 “The Inspiration Comes from Nature”, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAWARDS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2013 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA 2008 Sidney Simon Sculpture Award, National Academy of Museum, 183rd Annual Exhibition, New York, NY 2006 Honorarium, Berlind Symposium, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA 2002 Honorarium, Islip Museum, Selection Committee Carriage House, Islip, NY 2001 Honorarium, Selection Committee, Mortimer Hayes Brandeis Traveling Fellowship 1998 Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 1997 Honorarium, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH 1995 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 1994 Honorarium, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY 1989 Fellow of the The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1986 Honorarium, Artpark, Lewiston, NY 1983 National Endowment for the Arts, Graphics 1982 National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture 1979 Honorarium, New York State Council for the Arts 1978 Creative Artists Public Service, Sculpture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eORGANIZATIONS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2004 Who's Who in America, selected by Liza Phillips (The New Museum) 1999 American Abstract Artists\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEDUCATION 1974 B.S., Kutztown State College, Kutztown, PA Member faculty Princeton University, 2000—2003, Brandeis University, 2001—2003. 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The work is signed \"Ben-Zion\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. In 1920 he settled in America, where he found little interest in his writing. He began teaching Hebrew to support himself and then in the early 1930s returned to painting. He used his art to comment on the rise of fascism in Europe, events he felt could not be adequately explored with words. Largely self-taught, Ben-Zion visited the museums of New York City to learn his new trade. His first painting on a large scale, Friday Evening (1933, Jewish Museum, New York), depicts a Sabbath dinner table as recalled from his family home. Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and galleries began to show his work. In 1936, after his first one-man show at the Artists' Gallery in New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ben-Zion has his hands on the pulse of the common man and his natural world”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he emerged as an artist Ben-Zion never lost his gift for presenting the ordinary in ways that are vital, fresh and filled with emotions that are somber and exhilarating, joyous and thoughtful, and ultimately, filled with extraordinary poetic simplicity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. \"In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works.\" (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen-Zion continued his style of representational painting based on the abstract, and is perhaps best known for his Biblical paintings and etchings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen-Zion received an American Jewish Congress award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1987, Ben-Zion died in his home in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. 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Rubin Zelicovici (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Gala?i to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Finding himself at odds with the artistic views of the Academy's teachers, he left for Paris, France, in 1913 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. At the outbreak of World War I, he was returned to Romania, where he spent the war years. In 1921, he traveled to the United States with his friend and fellow artist, Arthur Kolnik, with whom he had shared a studio in Cernovitzu. In New York City, the two met artist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in organizing their first American show at the Anderson Gallery.Following the exhibition, in 1922, they both returned to Europe. In 1923, Rubin emigrated to Mandate Palestine. Rubin met his wife, Esther, in 1928, aboard a passenger ship to Palestine on his return from a show in New York. She was a Bronx girl who had won a trip to Palestine in a Young Judea competition. He died in 1974 Artistic career Joseph Zaritsky, Arieh Lubin, Yona Zeliuk, Reuven Rubin, Sionah Tagger, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Yitzhak Katz, and Baruch Agadati;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe painters who depicted the country’s landscapes in the 1920s rebelled against Bezalel. They sought current styles in Europe that would help portray their own country’s landscape, in keeping with the spirit of the time. Rubin’s Cezannesque landscapes from the 1920s were defined by both a modern and a naive style, portraying the landscape and inhabitants of Israel in a sensitive fashion. His landscape paintings in particular paid special detail to a spiritual, translucent light. In Palestine, he became one of the founders of the new Eretz-Yisrael style. Recurring themes in his work were the bible, the prophet, the biblical landscape, folklore and people, including Yemenite, Hasidic Jews and Arabs. Many of his paintings are sun-bathed depictions of Jerusalem and the Galilee. Rubin might have been influenced by the work of Henri Rousseau whose style combined with Eastern nuances, as well as with the neo-Byzantine art to which Rubin had been exposed in his native Romania. In accordance with his integrative style, he signed his works with his first name in Hebrew and his surname in Roman letters. In 1924, he was the first artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Tower of David, in Jerusalem (later exhibited in Tel Aviv at Gymnasia Herzliya). That year he was elected chairman of the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Palestine. From the 1930s onwards, Rubin designed backdrops for Habima Theater, the Ohel Theater and other theaters. His biography, published in 1969, is titled My Life - My Art. He died in Tel Aviv in October 1974, after having bequeathed his home on 14 Bialik Street and a core collection of his paintings to the city of Tel Aviv. The Rubin Museum opened in 1983. The director and curator of the museum is his daughter-in-law, Carmela Rubin.Rubin's paintings are now increasingly sought after. At a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2007, his work accounted for six of the ten top lots. Selected group exhibitions: 2015 Israeli Art: The Renewed Collection Galleries, Dr. Julius and Hilde Merzbacher Galleries and the Ayala Zacks Abramov Pavilion for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Artists: Reuven Rubin, Ephraim Moses Lilien,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYitzhak Danziger, Lea Nikel, Naftali Bezem, Mordecai Ardon, David Reeb, Ruth Schloss, Yehiel Shemi, Menashe Kadishman, Avigdor Arikha, Moshe Gershuni, Moshe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeva, Tsibi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGinton, David\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGitlin, Michael\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlapisch, Liliane\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlasmer, Gabi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKrakauer, Leopold\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoshe Kupferman, Sigalit Landau, Moshe Mokady, Ori Reisman, Yehezkel Streichman, Anna Ticho, Sionah Tagger and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducation 1912 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 1913-14 École des Beaux Arts, Paris and Académie Colarossi, Paris\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628336578858,"sku":"a_14130522S1","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_59CA961027D64C1B89B09B2A4C0C31A2_master.jpg?v=1780509104"},{"product_id":"large-drawing-of-boy-by-french-armenian-modernist-jean-jansem-ecole-de-paris-art","title":"Large Drawing of Boy by French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 32.0, W: 25.5 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013 Young Boy (sad young man) Hand signed lower left corner Provenance: Marble Arch Gallery NYC Measurements Image size: 25 by 18 inches, overall 32.5 by 25 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013 Bursa, Ottoman Turkish Empire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHovhannes \"Jean\" Semerdjian (Armenian: Հովհաննես \"Ժանսեմ\" Միրիջանի Սեմերջյան, 9 March 1920 – 27 August 2013), also known as Jean Jansem, was a French-Armenian painter. Jansem's artworks are internationally known, and are part of museum collections throughout France, Japan and the United States. A Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (2002). He was awarded by the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1953 and by the Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 2003. The President of Armenia awarded Jansem a Medal of Honor for his “reinforcement of Armenian-French cultural ties.” Hovhannes Semerdjian was born in 1920 in Bursa, then in the Ottoman Empire. In 1922, his family fled to Greece. He spent his childhood in Thessaloniki. They arrived to Issy-les-Moulineaux suburb of Paris, France in 1931 when he was 11 and that is when he begin to paint. The first professional schools for Jansem became the academies of Montparnasse (1934–1936). He studied in the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. His teachers were Maurice Brianchon, Raymond Legueult and Roland Oudot. Jansem also studied at the Sabatie studio for a year. Early paintings by Jansem were mainly on national issues. Known for his washy representational paintings of figure, landscape, marine and genre scenes of European subjects: fishermen and children of Greece, bullfighting in Spain, Italian landscapes and markets, scenes of Venice and French France village marketplaces and landscapes, nude women, still lifes, and figures, Jansem painted with a variety of media that included gouache, watercolor, ink, and oil painting in a stylized and textural aesthetic. had individual exhibitions in Paris, New York, Chicago, London, Tokyo, Rome, Brussels, Lausanne, Beirut etc. His work was shown by the prominent Wally Findlay Galleries in New York, Paris, Palm Beach and Beverly Hills (they show many important artists including Gaston Sebire, Henri Maik, Gen Paul, Jean Pierre Cassigneul, Jean Dufy, Gustavo Novoa, Nicola Simbari, Dietz Edzard, Suzanne Eisendieck, Constantin Kluge, Louis Valtat, Michael Vollbracht and and Paul Aizpiri. Hovhannes Semerdjian was elected the President of the Young Artists' Saloon in 1956. He won the Comparison prize in Mexico in 1958. In Japan, two museums were built to honor Jansem′s work, located in Tokyo Ginza and Nagano Prefecture Azumino. In 1973 he visited Armenia for the first time. In 2001, 34 of his paintings were given to the Armenian Genocide Museum. Jansem’s primary sources of inspiration were Goya and Brueghel. His mother and his children were the main heroes in his earlier works. Jansem was characterized as a miserablist, an artist of unfortunate people of the period of Bernard Buffet and Alberto Giacometti. 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He paints new versions of historical paintings and frames, bolting glass with sandblasted words to his painted panels. Aptekar’s work belongs to the tradition of painting, yet he brings to that tradition a recognition that paintings produce meaning only through their interaction with viewers. He investigates the nature of spectatorship. By “recreating” works of art in a painterly but utilitarian manner, Aptekar promotes viewers’ own narratives prompted by the image-text combinations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Detroit, Aptekar received his BFA at the University of Michigan, then moved to Brooklyn to complete an MFA at Pratt Institute. Most recently, his work was featured at the Jewish Museum in Vienna, Austria, and in the Biennale Internationale d’Autun, in Autun, France. A major commissioned solo exhibition, NACHBARN (“NEIGHBORS”), 2016, was on view at the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck, Germany, including paintings with text, silverpoint drawings, and video all based upon medieval altarpieces in the St. Annen Museum’s collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreviously, his work has been seen in solo exhibitions at the Victoria \u0026amp; Albert Museum in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery (London), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY), Centro da Cultura Judaica (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Musée Robert Dubois-Corneau (Brunoy, France), the New Museum (New York, NY), Douglas Cooley Gallery at Reed College (Portland, OR), Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State (State College, PA), Cummer Museum (Jacksonville, FL), and the Elaine Jacob Gallery at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI). In 2012 Aptekar’s work was the subject of a survey exhibition, ​“Ken Aptekar: Look Again,” at the Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Massachusetts. He was in the show Words \u0026amp; Music with John Giorno, Cheonae Kim, Ken Aptekar, William Anastasi, Monique Prieto, Jane Callister at Michael Berger Gallery. He was featured in the book Looking Jewish: Visual Culture \u0026amp; Modern Diaspora by Carol Zemel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabout artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic art, one that transcends dominant national traditions. Ken Aptekar, Alter Kacyzne, Moshe Vorobeichic, Bruno Schulz, Roman Vishniac and works by R. B. Kitaj, Ben Katchor, and Vera Frenkel that explore Jewish identity in a postmodern environment. A solo exhibition of Ken Aptekar’s was at Wasserman Projects in Detroit in 2024. Aptekar is the recipient of two NEA Fellowships in Painting, a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Residency at Bellagio, several Djerassi Resident Artist Program awards, and a Jackson Pollock Lee Krasner Foundation Award. 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He exhibited in 37 one-man shows and numerous group shows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis works can be viewed in collections, such as The Newark Museum, the Montclair Art Museum, the Lowe Museum in Coral Gables, the New York Lithographic Society, Abbott Laboratories, the Hartford Art Foundation, the Monmouth Historical Society, Johnson and Johnson, J.L. 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This affiliation presented an early sophistication and association with Jackson Pollack, Willem DeKooning, Franz Kline, Charles Egan and other dynamic personalities of the greatest art adventure of the 20th century. In 1971 Triano was appointed artist-in-residence at Seton Hall University and became a full-time professor the following year. Triano was born in 1928 and was raised in Kearny and North Artlington, New Jersey. As a child Triano was an avid illustrator, a hobby that he continued at age sixteen when he joined the U.S. Marine Corps. Triano was stationed in the South Pacific and continued to draw, finding his subject matter in the war. Upon the ending of the World War II, he enrolled at the Newark School of Fine Arts under the GI Bill of Rights in 1946. While at the Newark School of Fine Arts he became a friend and apprentice to famous sculptor Reuben Nakian. Nakian helped Triano develop his own version of Abstract Expressionism. 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His creations are constantly evolving in such series as: Each Day, The Wonders, Heaven and Earth, Geo, The Passions, A Sound of Angels, The Elegance of Women and The Olympians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis works have been exhibited in 37 one-man shows by prominent galleries, corporations and museums, featured in numerous publications and the subject of 12 television programs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis works can be viewed in collections, such as The Newark Museum, the Montclair Art Museum, the Lowe Museum in Coral Gables, the New York Lithographic Society, Abbott Laboratories, the Hartford Art Foundation, the Monmouth Historical Society, Johnson and Johnson, J.L. Hudson, House and Garden Magazine, Seton Hall University and Law School, the University of Alabama, William Paterson University, Wykeham Rise, the Golden Lemon on St. Kitts, the Library of Congress and Wuhan University in the People's Republic of China. Solo Exhibitions Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Mar-May, 1996 Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ Sept-Nov, 1994 The Collector, Washington, DC Sep, 1985 University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL Jan, 1978 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Mar-May, 1975 Rabin \u0026amp; Krueger Gallery, Newark, NJ Oct, 1965 Galerie Internationale, New York, NY Mar, 1963 Albert Landry Galleries, New York, NY Jan, 1978 Albert Landry Galleries, New York, NY Jan, 1959 Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Jun-Sep, 1958 Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ Nov, 1954\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions American Inaugural, Washington, DC Jan, 1997 Galerie Internationale, New York, NY Dec, 1965 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Oct-Nov, 1965 JL Hudson Gallery, Detroit, MI various, 1964-65 Guild Hall, East Hampton, Long Island, NY Jul-Aug, 1962 The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC Dec, 1960 The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Apr-Jun, 1958 Associated American Artists, New York, NY various, 1955-58 New York Lithograph Society, New York, NY various, 1955-57 Ward-Eggleston Gallery, New York, NY various, 1952-54 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Oct-Nov, 1953\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628344148266,"sku":"a_14305712S1","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_80EF83A9D30B4648A9FE83FFF01B84A0_master_7a1602a1-836d-42bd-8532-d08f9fa8bbe6.jpg?v=1780509262"},{"product_id":"modernist-conte-crayon-drawing-beach-scene-david-burliuk-russian-futurist","title":"Modernist Conte Crayon Drawing Beach Scene David Burliuk Russian Futurist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 9.0, W: 12.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Burliuk (Ukrainian, 1882-1967)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree figure on the beach (Hamptons, Long Island New York) Conte crayon drawing on paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHand signed lower left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnframed Provenance: Bloomsbury Auctions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Davidovich Burliuk (Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к; 1882-1967) was a Russian poet, artist and publicist of Ukrainian origin associated with the Futurist and Neo-Primitivist movements. Burliuk has been described as \"the father of Russian Futurism.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Burliuk was born on 21 July 1882 in the village of Riabushky (near Lebedyn, Ukraine) in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire. Burliuk's family was artistically inclined; two of his brothers were talented artists as well, Nikolai and Volodimir Burliuk. The Burliuk family partly descended from Ukrainian Cossacks on their father's side, who held premier positions in the Hetmanate. His mother, Ludmyla Mikhnevich, was of ethnic Belarusian descent. From 1898 to 1904, he studied at Kazan and Odesa art schools, as well as at the Royal Academy in Munich. His exuberant, extroverted character was recognized by Anton Azhbe, his professor at the Munich Academy, who called Burliuk a \"wonderful wild steppe horse\". During a time of significant industrialization and political change, movements such as the famed Der Blaue Reiter, a group Burliuk associated with in 1912, while he was in Munich, emphasized a shift away from the classical styles of the past, prioritizing the innovations of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1907, he made contact with the Russian art world; he met and befriended Mikhail Larionov, and they are both credited as being major forces in bringing together the contemporary art world. In 1908, an exhibition with the group Zveno (\"The Link\") in Kiev was organized by David Burliuk together with Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Alexander Bogomazov, his brother Volodymyr (Wladimir) Burliuk and Aleksandra Exter. The exhibition was a flop, especially because they were all unknown painters. The Burliuks and Larionov left for the aforementioned brothers' home in Chernianka, also known as Hylea; it was during this stay that their work became more Avant-Garde. That autumn, while visiting Ekster, they organized an exhibition which took place in the street; it was a success, and enough money was raised to go to Moscow. In 1909, Burliuk painted a portrait of his future wife, Marussia, on a background of flowers and rocks on the Crimean coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Futurist literary group Hylaea (Гилея [Gileya]) was initiated in 1910 by David Burlyuk and his brothers at their aforementioned estate near Kherson, and were quickly joined by Vasily Kamensky and Velimir Khlebnikov, with Aleksey Kruchenykh and Vladimir Mayakovsky joining in 1911. Soon afterwards, the group would morph into literary Cubism Futurism, the predominant form of Futurism in Russia. From the start to the end, Cubist Futurism always had an air of scandal about it. The artists and poets scandalized the public by walking in public spaces wearing ridiculous clothes and painting their faces, by writing plays incomprehensible to the public. Alexander Rodchenko later claimed that a specific recital \"was the first time I had seen such a frenzied, furious audience\". Even during the First World War their activities carried on: at the 1915 Christmas Party, hosted by Lilya and Osip Brik, the tree was hung from the roof, upside-down, and the guests arrived with vegetables in their buttonholes and in bizarre makeup. Russian Futurism would only end after the Revolution of 1917. Most of the Cubo-Futurists also resisted the Futurists in Italy. A brief alliance with their rivals, the Ego-Futurists, did not end very well. Burliuk's colleague Velimir Khlebnikov also developed Zaum, a poetry style. From 1910, he was the member of the group Jack of Diamonds, and from 1910 to 1911 he attended the Art School in Odessa. After 1911, David concentrated on poetry and manifestoes, and at Christmas he made the acquaintance of Benedikt Livshits, a Jewish poet. From 1911 to 1913, he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (MUZHVZ), and that year participated in the group exhibition of the Blaue Reiter in Munich, which also included his brother Wladimir. He also contributed an article to the Blaue Reiter Almanac. In December 1912, Burliuk was co-author and one of the many signatories of the manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste with the other members of Hylaea, one of the major manifestoes of Russian Futurism, a movement of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Filippo Marinetti's \"Futurist Manifesto\". In 1913, he was expelled from the Art Academy, as well as Mayakovsky. In the same year, Burliuk founded the publishing venture of the futurist writer's group Hylaea. In 1914, he and his brother Wladimir illustrated Kamensky's Tango with Cows, and in 1915 Burliuk published the book The Support of the Muses in Spring, with illustrations by Aristarkh Lentulov, and by David and Wladimir Burliuk. From 1915 to 1917, he resided in the Urals with frequent trips to Moscow and Petrograd (St. Petersburg). In 1917, he participated in an exhibition with the group Jack of Diamonds in the artists' salon in Moscow, which included Aleksandra Ekster and Kazimir Malevich. In 1916, his brother Wladimir Burliuk was drafted into military service, and in 1917 was killed in World War I in Saloniki. The next year, following the downfall of anarchism (he had befriended anarchists during the time he lived in an abandoned house), Burliuk fled Russia and began his journey to the United States, a process that took him through Siberia, Japan, and Canada which was not complete until 1922.[7] He kept in contact with his fellow Futurists in Russia, and, despite not knowing a word of English, managed to befriend artist and patron Katherine Dreier, establishing himself among the artists of that country. In 1922, he settled in the United States. In 1924 Burliuk published two Radio-style manifestos detailing a utopian art that would transcend space-time and aid in humanity's pursuit of knowledge and perfection. A colossal sized painting from this period titled Advent of the Mechanical Man, 1925–26, was exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum's 1926 International Exhibition of Modern Art Assembled by Société Anonyme. In New York, Burliuk developed activity in pro-Soviet oriented groups and, having written a poem for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, sought, in particular, to gain recognition as the \"father of Russian futurism\". He was a regular contributor to the Russian Voice newspaper. Burliuk published his collections, brochures, and magazines together with his wife Maria Nikiforovna, and through friends he distributed these publications mainly within the USSR. In 1925, Burliuk was a co-founder of the Association of Revolutionary Masters of Ukraine (ARMU) with the members Alexander Bogomazov, Vasiliy Yermilov, Vadym Meller, Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov, and Palmov Victor. In 1927, he participated in an exhibition of the Latest Artistic Trends in the Russian Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), together with Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Shevchenko, and Vladimir Tatlin. Burliuk was author of autobiographical sketches My Ancestors, Forty Years: 1890–1930. In the 1930s, Onya La Tour was an avid collector of modern art who acquired at least one hundred works by Burliuk. Like Ben Shahn, David Burliuk worked for the WPA. and developed a Social Realist style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis circle of friends at this time include Philip Evergood, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Nahum Tschacbasov, William Gropper, the Soyer brothers, Robert Gwathmey, Marsden Hartley, and Max Weber. In 1940, Burliuk petitioned the Soviet government for a request to visit his homeland. In exchange, he offered a sizeable collection of archival material pertaining to his contemporary and friend Vladimir Mayakovsky, which Burliuk offered to donate to the Mayakovsky Museum in addition to over 100 original paintings. Burliuk's requests were denied. He was allowed to visit the Soviet Union only in 1956 and 1965. In 1945, an exhibit was mounted at Irving Place Theater in New York City. In 1962, he and his wife traveled to Australia where he held an exhibition at Moreton Galleries, Brisbane. It was his only Australian exhibition. During his stay there, Burliuk painted some sketches and works with Australian views. From 1937 to 1966, Burliuk and his wife, Marusia, published Color \u0026amp; Rhyme, a journal primarily concerned with charting Burliuk's activities. Burliuk lived in Hampton Bays on Long Island for approximately 20 years until he died at Southampton Hospital in Southampton, New York. His house and studio still remain. In Russian poetry, Burliuk is regarded as a trailblazer. In 1990, the Russian Academy of Futurist Poetry established the David Burliuk Prize (Otmetina) for experimental poetry awarded annually. Burliuk appears in Part III of the Vladimir Mayakovsky's landmark poem A Cloud in Trousers (A Cloud in Pants, 1915). A painting (most likely fictional) by Burliuk appears in the novel Chapayev and Void by Viktor Pelevin. 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His paintings begin from an imagined fantasy space extending into installation, sculpture, and public art. He is a recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship (2009) and was a residency artist in the International Studio \u0026amp; Curatorial Program, Brooklyn (2011). After relocated to New York in 2011, Hsu attended many local and international exhibitions such as “Crystal Cave\", ASYMMETRIK Gallery, New York (2016); “Across The Pacific”, LAM Gallery, California (2016); “On \u0026amp; On: Art Without End”, Mark Miller Gallery, New York (2015); Outdoor exhibitions include 4heads: GIAF, New York (2016,2013\u0026amp;2012); DUMBO Arts Festival, New York (2013). As an international artist, he travels widely for varied projects and installations taking place in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Demark, Australia, the USA, and so on. In 2013, Hsu collaborated with the New York City DOT (Department of Transportation) and carried out a public art installation project: Magic Monkeys. Series sculptures were shown in Sculpture By The Sea in Denmark (2015) and Cottesloe, Sydney, Australia (2016, 2018). From studio to gallery, to street, to museum, Tang-Wei Hsu’s work has universal appeal. Tang-Wei studied space design and plastic arts. His experience in architectural drawings has contributed to his uniqueness. Hsu has reinvented the Superflat style by infusing three-dimensional perspective into his paintings and sculptures. His art transforms us from reality to a fantasy world. Hsu’s large-scale stainless steel sculptures and the drawings of creatures (organic patterns) that he constantly composes in white and black lines, which are seen as his individual idiosyncrasy and artlang, have gradually gained him worldwide publicity. Tang-Wei creates complex drawings as well as mixed-media installations composed of his drawings, paintings, and architectural features. His artistic ideas emerged from his cultural heritage and childhood experiences. Growing up, anime and Japanese comics like Pokémon were a big part of his childhood and his later artistic inspiration. He often alludes to nature in his work and interprets physical features of our universe as the stars and astronomy, either at close range or at a distance. By combining his fanciful worlds with practical architectural features, he asks us to suspend our disbelief, embrace his fantasy terrains, and enjoy them as part of our everyday surroundings. Those works hope to produce the relationship between the miniature and enormous scale in his paintings. Different layers from the painting produced many relationships, in order to make this imaginary space or scene are fantastic as outer space, every status of every distance is compressed into the flat paintings. Also extends the new imagination and fantasy from this space, by creating some clustered symbols in an artificial way, to make it feels like some unknown biology, biological unit, and various imagination of scenes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGroup Exhibition 2021 “POW WOW! 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Adler Fine Arts NYC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJankel Adler (born Jankiel Jakub Adler, 1895 – 1949) was a Polish-Jewish avant-garde painter and printmaker active primarily in Germany, France and England. He began his career as an engraver in Belgrade before studying arts in Germany. Co-founding the Yung-yidish group in Łódź (Lodz, Poland), he later became involved with the Cologne Progressives and the Union of Progressive International Artists in Germany. He began teaching at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and was a student of the Swiss abstract expressionist painter Paul Klee who had an important influence on Adler's work. Facing Nazi persecution, Adler fled to Paris in 1933, where he actively opposed fascism. His works were targeted by the Nazis, with several displayed in the Degenerate Art Exhibition. Adler volunteered for the Polish army during World War II but was later discharged for health reasons, eventually settling in Scotland and then Aldbourne, England. He later discovered that none of his siblings survived the Holocaust. Adler died in Aldbourne in 1949. Yankel Yaacov Adler was born as the seventh of ten children to an Orthodox Jewish family Tuszyn, a suburb of Łódź. In 1912 he began training as an engraver with his uncle in Belgrade. He moved in 1914 to Germany where he lived for a time with his sister in Barmen, (now part of Wuppertal). There he studied at the college of arts and crafts with professor Gustav Wiethücher. From 1918 to 1919 he went back to Łódź, where he was joint founder of Yung-yidish, a group of young Jewish artists. In 1920 he returned briefly to Berlin; in 1921 he returned to Barmen, and in 1922 he moved to Düsseldorf. In May 1922 he attended the International Congress of Progressive Artists and signed the \"Founding Proclamation of the Union of Progressive International Artists\". He also joined Franz Seiwert and Otto Freundlich in an artists group known as the Cologne Progressives. He became a teacher at the Academy of Arts, and became acquainted with, and influenced by the surrealism of Paul Klee and the expressionism of Otto Dix. A painting by Adler received a gold medal at the exhibition \"German art Düsseldorf\" in 1928. In 1929 and 1930 he went on study trips in Mallorca and other places in Spain. During the election campaign of July 1932 he published, with a group of leftist artists and intellectuals, an urgent appeal against the policy of the National Socialists and for communism. As a modern artist, and especially as a Jew, he faced persecution under Hitler's regime which took power in 1933. In that year, two of his pictures were displayed by the Nazis at the Mannheimer Arts Center as examples of degenerate art, and Adler left Germany, staying in Paris where he regarded his exile consciously as political resistance against the fascist regime in Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdler was affiliated with the art movement known as the School of Paris; together with other outstanding Jewish artists of that milieu, he is sometimes considered to be part of a group referred to specifically as the Jewish School of Paris. Includes painters Jankel Adler, Arbit Blatas, Marc Chagall, Jacques Chapiro, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Sigmund Menkes, Jules Pascin, Issachar Ryback, Jacques Lipchitz, Chana Orloff, and Ossip Zadkine. Ecole de ParisIn the years that followed, he made numerous journeys to Poland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania and the Soviet Union. He also spent time in Paris, working at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter. In 1937, twenty-five of his works were seized from public collections by the Nazis and four were shown in the Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he volunteered for the Polish army that had been reconstituted in France; in 1941 he was discharged for health reasons and lived thereafter in Kirkcudbright in Scotland where his work at this time included his Venus of Kirkcudbright. In 1943 he moved to London, Adler had a major impact on several younger, British artists, notably Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde. Adler’s Jewish heritage was a great influence on his early work, but in the early 1930s he moved away from Expressionism to experiment with abstraction and surrealism. Around 1945 a wealthy patron, Jimmy Bomford, arranged for him to live at Aldbourne, Wiltshire. He later learned that none of his nine siblings in Poland had survived The Holocaust. Adler died in Whitley Cottage in Aldbourne on 25 April 1949 at the age of 53, and is buried at the Jewish cemetery in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Adler was strongly influenced by Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger. He enjoyed experimenting with materials, for example sand admixtures. He often painted Jewish subjects, and painted a few abstract compositions.Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum Sztuki in Łódź, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628369609002,"sku":"a_14598362S1","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_47079A48101D437A88B3951AF9610C40_master_7095182b-0a82-4b37-9e46-c583e61df30f.jpg?v=1780509577"},{"product_id":"rare-1950s-original-syndicated-ink-drawing-cartoon-strip-susie-q-smith-comic-art","title":"Rare 1950s Original Syndicated Ink Drawing Cartoon Strip Susie Q Smith Comic Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 6.0, W: 18.25 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSUSIE Q. 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Daily, she was only in a panel at first, but it expanded into a full, multi-panel strip on February 7, 1953. In a very odd turn of events, in 1953 the Walters chose to leave King Features behind and hitch their wagon at the McNaught Syndicate. The creators were Harold \"Jerry\" Walter and his wife, Linda. Jerry was also responsible for Jellybean Jones, who has nothing to do with Jughead Jones's young sister, a modern-day addition to the Archie cast of characters. Together, they did The Lively Ones during the 1960s. Though each was capable of doing both major jobs in comic strip production, their usual working method was for Jerry to dream up the ideas and write the dialog, while Linda did the artwork. The Walters also collaborated on a series of Susie Q. Smith comic books for Dell Comics. Instead of reprinting newspaper strips, these ran new stories by the Walters. Between 1951 and '54, four issues were published as part of the Four Color Comics series, where many minor comic strips, including Dotty Dripple, Timmy and Rusty Riley had found a home. It had no other media spin-offs. Susie Q. Smith had a respectable run in the newspapers, but it ended in 1959.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry Walter (1915 - 2007) was an abstract expressionist artist whose output of energetic and colorful paintings were the products of the rich artistic milieu of post-war New York City. He was born Harold Frank Walter in Mount Pleasant, Iowa on November 25, 1915. After graduating from Colgate University in 1937, Walter moved to New York City, where he studied drawing and painting at the New School and the Art Students’ League. Before concentrating seriously on his art, he spent several years as a successful copywriter and idea man for the advertising agencies of J. Walter Thompson, McCann Ericson, and BBDO. During this time, he also worked as a syndicated cartoonist. Collaborating with his wife, Linda, his best-known series was Susie Q. Smith, which first appeared in 1945 and described as a “female Archie type.” Very popular, the cartoon was later the subject of a series of comic books published from 1951 to 1954. After serving in the United States Army for three years during World War II, Walter began to paint seriously. He ascribed his earliest artistic influence to Joan Miró, whose Dog Barking at the Moon (1926) he viewed when he was twelve, the year he published his first cartoon. Walter later wrote that jazz, “the first native expression of so-called modernism” was a strong influence on his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the later 1940s, Walters spent time at the Research Studio in Maitland, Florida. Founded in 1937 by artist and architect J. André Smith and supported by the philanthropist Mary Curtis Bok, the Research Studio was a lively colony that hosted prominent artists, including Milton Avery, Ralston Crawford, and Doris Lee. While at the Studio, Walter’s work was purchased by Frank Crowninshield. A founding trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and editor of Vanity Fair, Crowinshield was a noted collector; his collection included important works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, George Bellows, and Pierre Bonnard. Returning to New York after his time at the Studio, Walter became an active member of the New York school of the abstract expressionist movement, and in the summer of 1956, Walter exhibited 13 paintings and a selection of drawings at New York’s Chase Gallery. The adroit manipulation of both color and composition evident in his work shows the influence of Abstract Expressionism, particularly Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and Hans Hofmann.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eillustrator and female cartoonist Linda Walter was the talented female mind behind the beloved \"Susie Q. Smith\" comic strip. She played an instrumental role in shaping the cultural landscape through her vibrant illustrations. Known for the timeless charm of the \"Susie Q. Smith\" comic strip, Linda's artistry brought joy and laughter to countless readers during the 1950s and continues to resonate with fans across generations. She was part of the Woodstock artists community. from Women in Comics: Linda Walter was the artist of newspaper strip Susie Q. Smith, which was written by her husband, Jerry. It was syndicated by King Features Syndicate and ran from 1945 to 1959. The Walters also contributed original Susie Q. Smith stories to Dell's Four Color comic books from 1951 to 1954. From 1964-1965, they created a singled panel comic called The Lively Ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVintage Golden Age of Comics era. The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era in the history of American comic books from 1938 to 1956. During this time, modern comic books were first published and rapidly increased in popularity. The superhero archetype was created. Between 1939 and 1941 Detective Comics (DC) and its sister company, All-American Publications, introduced popular superheroes such as Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Doctor Fate, the Atom, Hawkman, Green Arrow and Aquaman. Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, had million-selling titles featuring the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Another notable series was The Spirit by Will Eisner. Dell Comics' non-superhero characters (particularly the licensed Walt Disney animated-character comics) outsold the superhero comics of the day. The publisher featured licensed movie and literary characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Roy Rogers and Tarzan. Additionally, MLJ's introduction of Archie Andrews in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941) gave rise to teen humor comics, with the Archie Comics character remaining in print well into the 21st century. The term Atomic Age of Comic Books is sometimes used to describe a brief time period, starting with either the end of World War II in 1945 or in 1948 with the first outcry of Fredric Wertham. In 1953, the comic book industry hit a setback when the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency was created. 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Daily, she was only in a panel at first, but it expanded into a full, multi-panel strip on February 7, 1953. In a very odd turn of events, in 1953 the Walters chose to leave King Features behind and hitch their wagon at the McNaught Syndicate. The creators were Harold \"Jerry\" Walter and his wife, Linda. Jerry was also responsible for Jellybean Jones, who has nothing to do with Jughead Jones's young sister, a modern-day addition to the Archie cast of characters. Together, they did The Lively Ones during the 1960s. Though each was capable of doing both major jobs in comic strip production, their usual working method was for Jerry to dream up the ideas and write the dialog, while Linda did the artwork. The Walters also collaborated on a series of Susie Q. Smith comic books for Dell Comics. Instead of reprinting newspaper strips, these ran new stories by the Walters. Between 1951 and '54, four issues were published as part of the Four Color Comics series, where many minor comic strips, including Dotty Dripple, Timmy and Rusty Riley had found a home. It had no other media spin-offs. Susie Q. Smith had a respectable run in the newspapers, but it ended in 1959.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry Walter (1915 - 2007) was an abstract expressionist artist whose output of energetic and colorful paintings were the products of the rich artistic milieu of post-war New York City. He was born Harold Frank Walter in Mount Pleasant, Iowa on November 25, 1915. After graduating from Colgate University in 1937, Walter moved to New York City, where he studied drawing and painting at the New School and the Art Students’ League. Before concentrating seriously on his art, he spent several years as a successful copywriter and idea man for the advertising agencies of J. Walter Thompson, McCann Ericson, and BBDO. During this time, he also worked as a syndicated cartoonist. Collaborating with his wife, Linda, his best-known series was Susie Q. Smith, which first appeared in 1945 and described as a “female Archie type.” Very popular, the cartoon was later the subject of a series of comic books published from 1951 to 1954. After serving in the United States Army for three years during World War II, Walter began to paint seriously. He ascribed his earliest artistic influence to Joan Miró, whose Dog Barking at the Moon (1926) he viewed when he was twelve, the year he published his first cartoon. Walter later wrote that jazz, “the first native expression of so-called modernism” was a strong influence on his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the later 1940s, Walters spent time at the Research Studio in Maitland, Florida. Founded in 1937 by artist and architect J. André Smith and supported by the philanthropist Mary Curtis Bok, the Research Studio was a lively colony that hosted prominent artists, including Milton Avery, Ralston Crawford, and Doris Lee. While at the Studio, Walter’s work was purchased by Frank Crowninshield. A founding trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and editor of Vanity Fair, Crowinshield was a noted collector; his collection included important works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, George Bellows, and Pierre Bonnard. Returning to New York after his time at the Studio, Walter became an active member of the New York school of the abstract expressionist movement, and in the summer of 1956, Walter exhibited 13 paintings and a selection of drawings at New York’s Chase Gallery. The adroit manipulation of both color and composition evident in his work shows the influence of Abstract Expressionism, particularly Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and Hans Hofmann.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eillustrator and female cartoonist Linda Walter was the talented female mind behind the beloved \"Susie Q. Smith\" comic strip. She played an instrumental role in shaping the cultural landscape through her vibrant illustrations. Known for the timeless charm of the \"Susie Q. Smith\" comic strip, Linda's artistry brought joy and laughter to countless readers during the 1950s and continues to resonate with fans across generations. She was part of the Woodstock artists community. from Women in Comics: Linda Walter was the artist of newspaper strip Susie Q. Smith, which was written by her husband, Jerry. It was syndicated by King Features Syndicate and ran from 1945 to 1959. The Walters also contributed original Susie Q. Smith stories to Dell's Four Color comic books from 1951 to 1954. From 1964-1965, they created a singled panel comic called The Lively Ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVintage Golden Age of Comics era. The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era in the history of American comic books from 1938 to 1956. During this time, modern comic books were first published and rapidly increased in popularity. The superhero archetype was created. Between 1939 and 1941 Detective Comics (DC) and its sister company, All-American Publications, introduced popular superheroes such as Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Doctor Fate, the Atom, Hawkman, Green Arrow and Aquaman. Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, had million-selling titles featuring the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Another notable series was The Spirit by Will Eisner. Dell Comics' non-superhero characters (particularly the licensed Walt Disney animated-character comics) outsold the superhero comics of the day. The publisher featured licensed movie and literary characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Roy Rogers and Tarzan. Additionally, MLJ's introduction of Archie Andrews in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941) gave rise to teen humor comics, with the Archie Comics character remaining in print well into the 21st century. The term Atomic Age of Comic Books is sometimes used to describe a brief time period, starting with either the end of World War II in 1945 or in 1948 with the first outcry of Fredric Wertham. In 1953, the comic book industry hit a setback when the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency was created. 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SMITH Medium: Newspaper comics Distributed by: King Features Syndicate First Appeared: 1945 Creators: Linda and Jerry Walter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.5 X 19.5 Dated August 13, 1954 in top right corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike her contemporaries, Aggie Mack, Candy and Patsy Walker (before her conversion to a superhero), Susie Q. Smith was a female Archie-type — not exactly an imitator, because Archie, who had started only four years earlier, hadn't yet become popular enough to spawn imitators, but part of his genre. She attended high school, where her teachers often seemed unreasonable to her, interacted with the opposite gender in a typically adolescent way, and her parents didn't completely understand her. And she was cute and perky as only a teenage girl can be. Susie was the star of a comic strip distributed by King Features, the biggest of the comic strip syndicates, whose other offerings have ranged from Jackys Diary to Prince Valiant. King launched the strip in both daily and Sunday form in 1945. Daily, she was only in a panel at first, but it expanded into a full, multi-panel strip on February 7, 1953. In a very odd turn of events, in 1953 the Walters chose to leave King Features behind and hitch their wagon at the McNaught Syndicate. The creators were Harold \"Jerry\" Walter and his wife, Linda. Jerry was also responsible for Jellybean Jones, who has nothing to do with Jughead Jones's young sister, a modern-day addition to the Archie cast of characters. Together, they did The Lively Ones during the 1960s. Though each was capable of doing both major jobs in comic strip production, their usual working method was for Jerry to dream up the ideas and write the dialog, while Linda did the artwork. The Walters also collaborated on a series of Susie Q. Smith comic books for Dell Comics. Instead of reprinting newspaper strips, these ran new stories by the Walters. Between 1951 and '54, four issues were published as part of the Four Color Comics series, where many minor comic strips, including Dotty Dripple, Timmy and Rusty Riley had found a home. It had no other media spin-offs. Susie Q. Smith had a respectable run in the newspapers, but it ended in 1959.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry Walter (1915 - 2007) was an abstract expressionist artist whose output of energetic and colorful paintings were the products of the rich artistic milieu of post-war New York City. He was born Harold Frank Walter in Mount Pleasant, Iowa on November 25, 1915. After graduating from Colgate University in 1937, Walter moved to New York City, where he studied drawing and painting at the New School and the Art Students’ League. Before concentrating seriously on his art, he spent several years as a successful copywriter and idea man for the advertising agencies of J. Walter Thompson, McCann Ericson, and BBDO. During this time, he also worked as a syndicated cartoonist. Collaborating with his wife, Linda, his best-known series was Susie Q. Smith, which first appeared in 1945 and described as a “female Archie type.” Very popular, the cartoon was later the subject of a series of comic books published from 1951 to 1954. After serving in the United States Army for three years during World War II, Walter began to paint seriously. He ascribed his earliest artistic influence to Joan Miró, whose Dog Barking at the Moon (1926) he viewed when he was twelve, the year he published his first cartoon. Walter later wrote that jazz, “the first native expression of so-called modernism” was a strong influence on his work. During the later 1940s, Walters spent time at the Research Studio in Maitland, Florida. Founded in 1937 by artist and architect J. André Smith and supported by the philanthropist Mary Curtis Bok, the Research Studio was a lively colony that hosted prominent artists, including Milton Avery, Ralston Crawford, and Doris Lee. While at the Studio, Walter’s work was purchased by Frank Crowninshield. A founding trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and editor of Vanity Fair, Crowinshield was a noted collector; his collection included important works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, George Bellows, and Pierre Bonnard. Returning to New York after his time at the Studio, Walter became an active member of the New York school of the abstract expressionist movement, and in the summer of 1956, Walter exhibited 13 paintings and a selection of drawings at New York’s Chase Gallery. The adroit manipulation of both color and composition evident in his work shows the influence of Abstract Expressionism, particularly Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and Hans Hofmann.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eillustrator and female cartoonist Linda Walter was the talented female mind behind the beloved \"Susie Q. Smith\" comic strip. She played an instrumental role in shaping the cultural landscape through her vibrant illustrations. Known for the timeless charm of the \"Susie Q. Smith\" comic strip, Linda's artistry brought joy and laughter to countless readers during the 1950s and continues to resonate with fans across generations. She was part of the Woodstock artists community. from Women in Comics: Linda Walter was the artist of newspaper strip Susie Q. Smith, which was written by her husband, Jerry. It was syndicated by King Features Syndicate and ran from 1945 to 1959. The Walters also contributed original Susie Q. Smith stories to Dell's Four Color comic books from 1951 to 1954. From 1964-1965, they created a singled panel comic called The Lively Ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVintage Golden Age of Comics era. The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era in the history of American comic books from 1938 to 1956. During this time, modern comic books were first published and rapidly increased in popularity. The superhero archetype was created. Between 1939 and 1941 Detective Comics (DC) and its sister company, All-American Publications, introduced popular superheroes such as Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Doctor Fate, the Atom, Hawkman, Green Arrow and Aquaman. Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, had million-selling titles featuring the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Another notable series was The Spirit by Will Eisner. Dell Comics' non-superhero characters (particularly the licensed Walt Disney animated-character comics) outsold the superhero comics of the day. The publisher featured licensed movie and literary characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Roy Rogers and Tarzan. Additionally, MLJ's introduction of Archie Andrews in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941) gave rise to teen humor comics, with the Archie Comics character remaining in print well into the 21st century. The term Atomic Age of Comic Books is sometimes used to describe a brief time period, starting with either the end of World War II in 1945 or in 1948 with the first outcry of Fredric Wertham. In 1953, the comic book industry hit a setback when the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency was created. As a result, the Comics Code Authority was created by the Association of Comics Magazine Publishers to enact self-censorship by comic book publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628376031530,"sku":"a_14733542S1","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_A1F66EF5D38344198B5DC93E5833D64C_master_42abbac0-c982-4a4f-8d7e-e58560b02da2.jpg?v=1780509708"},{"product_id":"rare-original-1967-minimalist-mod-pop-art-allan-d-arcangelo-unique-ink-drawing","title":"Rare Original 1967 Minimalist Mod Pop Art Allan D'Arcangelo Unique Ink Drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 16.0, W: 19.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllan D'Arcangelo (American\/New York, 1930-1998), 1967 Cloud and Tree Note affixed to back Frame: 16 X 19 Image: 14 X 17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHand signed in pencil and dated lower right 1967, titled bottom center \"Landscape\", and lower left\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einscribed in pencil \"For Al Lerner\". Sight seen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eapprox. 17\" x 14\". Verso includes handwritten note from the artist to Al Lerner.....\"Dear Al, I thought you might like to have this since you were\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe first to see my new clouds and trees., Alan\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllan D'Arcangelo (1930-1998) was an American artist and printmaker, best known for his paintings of highways and road signs that border on pop art and minimalism, precisionism, Abstract illusionism and hard-edge painting and also surrealism. His subject matter is distinctly American and evokes, at times, a cautious outlook on the future of this country. Allan D'Arcangelo was the son of Italian immigrants. He studied at the University of Buffalo from 1948–1953, where he got his bachelor's degree in history. After college, he moved to Manhattan and picked up his studies again at the New School of Social Research and the City University of New York, City College. At this time, he encountered Abstract Expressionist painters who were in vogue at the moment. After joining the army in the mid 1950s, he used the GI Bill to study painting at Mexico City College from 1957–59, driving there over 12 days in an old bakery truck retrofitted as a camper. However, he returned to New York in 1959, in search of the unique American experience. It was at this time that his painting took on a cool sensibility reminiscent of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis interests engaged with the environment, anti-Vietnam War protests, and the commodification and objectification of female sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eD'Arcangelo first achieved recognition in 1962, when he was invited to contribute an etching to The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: America Discovered; his first solo exhibition came the next year, at the Thiebaud Gallery in New York City. In 1965 he contributed three screenprints to Original Edition's 11 Pop Artists portfolio. By the 1970s, D'Arcangelo had received significant recognition in the art world. He was well known for his paintings and collage sculpture of quintessentially American highways and infrastructure, and in 1971 was commissioned by the Department of the Interior to paint the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state. However, his sense of morality always trumped his interest in art world fame. In 1975, he decided to quit the gallery that had been representing him for years, Marlborough Gallery, because of the way they handled Mark Rothko legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eD'Arcangelo rejected Abstract Expressionism, though his early work has a painterly and somewhat expressive feel. He quickly turned to a style of art that seemed to border on Pop Art and Minimalism, Precisionism and Hard-Edge painting. Evidently, he didn't fit neatly in the category of Pop Art, though he shared subjects (women, signs, Superman) and techniques (stencil, assemblage) with these artists.He turned to expansive, if detached scenes of the American highway. These paintings are reminiscent of Giorgio de Chirico-though perhaps not as interested in isolation-and Salvador Dali-though there is a stronger interest in the present and disinterest in the past. These paintings also have a sharp quality that is reminiscent of the precisionist style, or more specifically, Charles Sheeler. 1950s, Before D'Arcangelo returned to New York, his style was roughly figurative and reminiscent of folk art. During the early 1960s, Allan D'Arcangelo was linked with Pop Art. \"Marilyn\" (1962) depicts an illustrative head and shoulders on which the facial features are marked by lettered slits to be \"fitted\" with the eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth which appear off to the right in the composition. In \"Madonna and Child,\" (1963) the featureless faces of Jackie Kennedy and Caroline are ringed with haloes, enough to make their status as contemporary icons perfectly clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Exhibitions: Fischbach Gallery, New York,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIleana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, Gallery Müller, Stuttgart, Germany Hans Neuendorf Gallery, Hamburg, Germany Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles Galerie Ricke, Kassel, Germany,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObelisk Gallery, Boston,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMinami Gallery, Tokyo, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany Lambert Gallery, Paris Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarlborough GalleryPatricia Moore Gallery, Aspen, Colorado Hokin Gallery, Chicago Grace Borgenicht Gallery,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetrospettiva, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy Mitchell Innes \u0026amp; Nash,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond Pop: Allan D'Arcangelo, Hollis Taggart Galleries, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, Pi in the Sky, Waddington Custot, London, UK,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Group Exhibitions Allan D'Arcangelo: Bilder und John Chamberlain: Plastiken, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Arakawa, Allan D'Arcangelo, Mark di Suervo, Robert Grosvenor, Anthony Magar, Neil Williams, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican Painting Now, ACA Gallery, Boston Contemporary Drawings, New York University Pop Art Americana: D'Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Kelly, Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Phillips, Mel Ramos, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Warhol, John Wesley, Tom Wesselman, Galleria De' Foscherari, Bologna, Italy Frank O'Hara \/ In Memory of My Feelings, Museum of Modern Art, New York,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting Whitney Museum of American Art Beyond Literalism: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Allan D'Arcangelo, Charles Fahlen, Jack Krueger, Naoto Nakagawa, Frank Roth, William Schwedler, William Wiley, Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFotos Aus Der Kunstszene New York, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtists Salute Skowhegan, Kennedy Gallery, New York,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1963 to 1968, Chiron Press was the ground-zero of the fledgling Pop Art scene. Founded in a tiny storefront on 614 East 11th Street in New York City, it was the first print atelier in New York City, indeed in the country, devoted to screen printing for artists. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg made silkscreen prints at Chiron. Alfred Jensen, Valerie Jaudon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emade early prints there. Chiron Press also worked with many female artists, including Marisol, Elaine DeKooning Louise Nevelson and Helen Frankenthaler.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628377571626,"sku":"a_14733692S1","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_27DED2CBC92149FCB63F8F39CB592B8E_master_0352a6c5-1d04-4160-873d-96371b160e46.jpg?v=1780509720"},{"product_id":"german-abstract-colorful-watercolor-painting-crayon-drawing-andreas-bindl","title":"German Abstract Colorful Watercolor Painting Crayon Drawing Andreas Bindl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 21.75, W: 15.75 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman Abstract Watercolor and Crayon Painting by Andreas Bindl (1928) This is a signed watercolor and crayon abstract cubist landscape painting by artist Andreas Bindl (German, 1928-2010). Dated 1964.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mat is 21 3\/4 x 15 3\/4\". The painting paper is 16 1\/8 x 11 5\/8\" This needs a new mat. 1928 Grünthal\/Rosenheim - 2010 Faistenhaar. Studium an der Münchner Kunstakademie, Meisterschüler bei Josef Henselmann, Präsident der Künstlervereinigung der Neuen Gruppe.Andreas Bindl is known for Painting and sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaster student of Josef Henselmann (1898-1987).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are 15 related artists for Andreas Bindl : Peter Casagrande,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeinz Georg Adochi,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelge Leiberg,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBele Bachem,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLothar Fischer,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheodor Werner,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElvira Bach,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFred Thieler,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSiegfried Anzinger,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJorg Immendorff,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRolf Cavael,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlaus Fussmann,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeinrich Zille,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerbert Zangs,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarl-Fred Dahmen.Since 1961 took part in the Great Art Exhibition in Munich. Received the Villa Romana Prize in 1986 and was since 1987 member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndreas Bindl (born 1928 in Grünthal near Rosenheim\/Upper Bavaria; dies January 2010 in Faistenhaar ) was a German sculptor . After an apprenticeship as a carpenter, he studied from 1948 to 1954 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a master student of Josef Henselmann. After completing his studies he worked as a freelance sculptor in Munich. From 1961 he took part in the Great Art Exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich. From 1970 his main activity was the creation of pictorial objects. From 1971 he was a member of the German Artists' Association, having already taken part in its 18th major group exhibition in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn the year before. From 1972 Bindl was a member of the New Group . In 1978 he was awarded the Munich City Prize for Fine Arts and in 1980 the Water Lily Prize. He had a teaching position at the Munich Academy from 1980. In 1986 he received the Villa Romana Prize. Since 1987 he has been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , from 1990 to 1996 he was president of the New Group, and since then he has been its honorary president. In 2002 he was awarded the Egmont Schaefer Prize . literature Bindl, Andreas . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (ed.): Imagery Building Artwork – 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990 He showed at Galerie Reinke in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlin (Wilmersdorf) - Germany Along with Claudio D'Ambrosio, Kurt Bartel, Christofer Kochs, Felix Weinold and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndreas Grunert. and at Florian Sundheimer Galerie with Horst Antes, Georg Baselitz, Michael Croissant,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLothar Fischer, Asger Jorn and Ernst Wilhelm Nay.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628392874282,"sku":"a_14887392S1","price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_22A10A481B954C7EB75940BBC2C7054C_master.jpg?v=1780509892"},{"product_id":"abstract-pastel-crayon-drawing-color-abstract-seasonal-letter-john-von-wicht","title":"Abstract Pastel Crayon Drawing Color Abstract, Seasonal Letter John Von Wicht","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 8.5, W: 5.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvenance: Virginia Field, arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht, Bernard Childs, John Ford and Andy Warhol)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohannes Von Wicht was born in Holstein, Germany on February 3, 1888. His mother moved the family to Oldenburg when Von Wicht was in elementary school and he began to visit the artist Gerhard Bakenhus. Von Wicht’s mother had arranged for him to apprentice at the studio of master painter F.W. Adels. There he learned to prepare paints with linseed oil and later commented on the lasting impression of colors throughout his career. Interior of a Farmhouse was his first painting completed in 1907. Gerhard Bakenhus was able to include the painting to in the Bremer Kunsthalle exhibition in 1908. Due to the critical success of this piece Von Wicht was accepted to the private art school of the Grand Duke of Hesse in Darmstadt. Fundamental themes of simplicity, nature, and poetry were instilled in the students. The students also studied ancient art, Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, as well as Mathias Grünewald, Albrecht Dürer, Martin Schongauer, Hans Memling, and other German masters whose work was in local collections. Von Wicht subsequently studied printing methods at the Royal School for Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin, but said he skipped class frequently to visit exhibitions of the newest painting—van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Edvard Munch, Paul Gauguin, Wassily Kandinsky, and Franz Marc. Von Wicht continued to pursue the arts with a three-year scholarship to the Royal School of Fine \u0026amp; Applied Arts in Berlin. There he was influenced by the city’s avant-garde art scene. In 1911 his work was included in the Free Berlin Secession exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring his service in WWI Von Wicht was wounded and partially paralyzed. While recovering he worked on book designs and illustrations. In 1923 Von Wicht immigrated to the United States, leaving a post-war Berlin and its economic hardships. He found his place at the Ardsley Art Academy in Brooklyn and secured a job at the U.S. Printing and Lithography Company, later moving to work at Ravenna Mosaic. While working for the mosaic company, Von Wicht designed a vestibule for the St. Louis Cathedral in a classic Byzantine manner. After a few years he had established enough contacts to become an independent mosaic contractor, setting up an office on Park Ave to handle private commissions, with a studio in Brooklyn Heights. Von Wicht’s first attempt at abstraction was not until 1937 when he created his “Force” series in watercolor, commemorating Juliana Force, the first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art. This group of paintings were clearly influenced by Kandinsky’s geometrical abstractions. In 1941 Von Wicht was accepted into a show at the Whitney, whereupon he was recognized and acknowledged both by his critics as well as his peers. Challenged by cubism and surrealism, Von Wicht had yet to find his own personal artistic vocabulary within abstract expressionism. By 1950 Von Wicht was painting full time and able to explore his personal expression of abstraction as a mature artist, returning to drawing in order to solve problems of content and composition. Far Eastern calligraphy was a major influence for Von Wicht that moved his works into a more vertical format. In 1951 Von Wicht had his second solo exhibit at the Passedoit Gallery, which won him much critical acclaim. He held another show at the Passedoit in 1954 with works based on musical symphonies, using elements of abstraction to provide a spiritual analysis of the music itself. He created innovative works on rice paper while spending a winter at the McDowell Colony, an artist-in residence program in New Hampshire. He attempted automatic sketching as a direct translation of inner movement to find equilibrium within his work. Towards the end of the 1950’s, Von Wicht contract with the Passedoit Gallery ended and he moved to the Bertha Schaefer Gallery (She introduced the work sculptors Kenneth Armitage and Eduardo Chillida, championed the paintings of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Maurer and Bauhaus artists). His first European show was in held 1959 in Paris, with others following in Brussels, Liege, and Belgium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1924 Brooklyn Institute of Art and Science 1936 Architects Building, NYC 1939 Theodore A. Kohn \u0026amp; Son, NYC 1944 Artists’ Gallery, NYC 1947 University of California, Los Angeles 1950 Passedoit Gallery, NYC 1959 Galerie Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France Galerie Europe, Brussels, Belgium Association pour e Progrès Intel et Artistique de la Wallonie (APIAW), Liége Belgium Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara 1960 Galeria Mayer, Madrid, Spain 1960 The Bertha Schaefer Gallery, NYC (1962, 1964, 1966) 1962 Galerie Neufville, Paris 1964 Galerie Leonhard, Munich, Germany 1966 Joseph Grippi Gallery, NYC 1973 Oscar Krasner Gallery, NYC 1979 Marden Fine Arts, NYC 1989 Galerie Kaupa, Germany 1990 “Kunstverein March,” Germany 1992 Galerie Michael Rasche, Freiburg, Germany (2000) 1993 Gallery Berman-Daferner, NYC (1995) 1993 Susan Teller Gallery, NYC 1999 Kraushaar Gallery, NYC 2002 Ostholsteinisches Landesmuseum, Eutin, Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Group Exhibitions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1940 Galerie St. Etienne, NYC 1941 Metropolitan Museum of Art 1945-48 Brooklyn Museum 1941 Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennial 1946 National Academy Galleries, NYC 1946 Kleeman Gallery, NYC Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., NYC Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Palais des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris, France New School for Social Research, NYC Museum of Modern Art National Arts Club, NYC Bertha Schaefer Gallery The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. “The Second Wave: American Abstraction of the 1930s and 1940s,” Worcester Art Museum, MA “A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists,” The Currier Art Gallery, Manchester, NH Museu de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain “The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Paintings,” Worcester Art Museum, MA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was a member of American Abstract Artists, Audubon Society of Artists, Brooklyn Society of Artists and Salons of America.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628393365802,"sku":"a_14901282S1","price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_1F45B2B50BA0400281F694665C0BE81D_master_2e4e15a1-098e-4d72-a474-b24ca514a850.jpg?v=1780509901"},{"product_id":"alexander-calder-circus-reproduction-lithograph-after-a-drawing","title":"Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 13.0, W: 17.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(after) Alexander Calder \"Calder's Circus\" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum \u0026amp; Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or \"drawing in space,\" and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, \"shocked\" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both \"motion\" and \"motive.\" At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed \"stabiles\" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublic commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics \"Cultural Olympiad\" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a \"flying canvas.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard that shimmered with dangling fish. In 1942, Guggenheim wore one Calder earring and one by Yves Tanguy to the opening of her New York gallery, The Art of This Century, to demonstrate her equal loyalty to Surrealist and abstract art, examples of which she displayed in separate galleries. Others who were presented with Calder's pieces were the artist's close friend, Georgia O'Keeffe; Teeny Duchamp, wife of Marcel Duchamp; Jeanne Rucar, wife of the filmmaker Luis Buñuel; and Bella Rosenfeld, wife of Marc Chagall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalder's work is in many permanent collections across the world. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has the largest body of work by Alexander Calder. Other important museum collections include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628393824554,"sku":"a_14913272S1","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_8E7E3B345F884E39B290EF67703AB930_master_e977b8b8-3494-482b-8480-badc1fe98fb0.jpg?v=1780509910"},{"product_id":"boston-expressionist-conte-pencil-drawing-still-life-with-flies-hyman-bloom","title":"Boston Expressionist Conte Pencil Drawing \"Still Life with Flies\" Hyman Bloom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 18.0, W: 16.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHyman Bloom \"Still Life with Flies\" Frame: 18\" X 16\" Image: 9.25\" X 8.25\" Hand signed with his monogram initials Provenance: bears exhibition label from Fuller Museum of Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHyman Bloom (March 29, 1913 – August 26, 2009) was a Latvian-born (born Hyman Melamed) American painter. His work was influenced by his Jewish heritage and Eastern religions as well as by artists including Altdorfer, Grünewald, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Blake, Bresdin, James Ensor and Chaim Soutine. He first came to prominence when his work was included in the 1942 Museum of Modern Art exhibition \"Americans 1942 -- 18 Artists from 9 States\". MoMA purchased 2 paintings from the exhibition and Time magazine singled him out as a \"striking discovery\" in their exhibition review. His work was selected for both the 1948 and 1950 Venice Biennale exhibitions along with Willem de Kooning, Lee Gatch, Arshile Gorky, Rico Lebrun, John Marin and Jackson Pollock. Receives grant from the National Academy of Arts and Letters. His 1954 retrospective traveled from Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art to the Albright Gallery and the de Young Museum before closing out at The Whitney Museum of American Art in 1955. In a 1954 interview with Yale art professor Bernard Chaet, Willem de Kooning indicated that he and Jackson Pollock both considered Bloom to be “America’s first abstract expressionist”, a label that Bloom would disavow. Starting in the mid 1950s his work began to shift more towards works on paper and he exclusively focused on drawing throughout the 1960s, returning to painting in 1971. He continued both drawing and painting until his death in 2009 at the age of 9 Hyman Bloom (né Melamed) was born into an orthodox Jewish family in the tiny Jewish village of Brunavišķi in what is now Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire At a young age Bloom planned to become a rabbi, but his family could not find a suitable teacher. In the eighth grade he received a scholarship to a program for gifted high school students at the Museum of Fine Arts. He attended the Boston High School of Commerce, which was near the museum. He also took art classes at the West End Community Center, a settlement house. The classes were taught by Harold Zimmerman, a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, who also taught the young Jack Levine at another settlement house in Roxbury. When Bloom was fifteen, he and Levine began studying with a well-known Harvard art professor, Denman Ross, who rented a studio for the purpose and paid the boys a weekly stipend to enable them to continue their studies rather than take jobs to support their families. He took Bloom and Levine on a field trip to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where Bloom was impressed by the work of Rouault and Soutine and began experimenting with their expressive painting styles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1930s Bloom worked sporadically for the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project (WPA), He shared a studio in the South End with Levine and another artist, Betty Chase. It was during this period that he developed a lifelong interest in Eastern philosophy and music, and in Theosophy. He first received national attention in 1942 when thirteen of his paintings were included in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) exhibition Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States, curated by Dorothy Miller. MoMA purchased two of his paintings from that exhibition, and he was featured in Time magazine. The titles of his paintings in the exhibition reflect some of his recurring themes. Two were titled The Synagogue, another, Jew with the Torah; Bloom was actually criticized by one reviewer for including \"stereotypical\" Jewish images. He also had two paintings titled The Christmas Tree, and another titled The Chandelier, both subjects he returned to repeatedly. Another, Skeleton (c. 1936), was followed by a series of cadaver paintings in the forties, and The Fish (c. 1936) was one of many paintings and drawings of fish he created over the course of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBloom was associated at first with the growing Abstract Expressionist movement. Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, who first saw Bloom's work at the MoMA exhibition, considered Bloom \"the first Abstract Expressionist artist in America.\" In 1950 he was chosen, along with the likes of de Kooning, Pollock, and Arshile Gorky, to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. That same year Elaine de Kooning wrote about Bloom in ARTnews, noting that in paintings such as The Harpies, his work approached total abstraction: \"the whole impact is carried in the boiling action of the pigment\". In 1951 Thomas B. Hess reproduced Bloom's Archaeological Treasure in his first book, Abstract Painting: Background and American Phase, along with works by Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and others. Both de Kooning and Hess remarked on Bloom's expressive paint handling, a key characteristic of Abstract Expressionist painting. As abstract expressionism dominated the American art world, Bloom became disenchanted with it, calling it \"emotional catharsis, with no intellectual basis.\" In addition, instead of moving to New York to pursue his career, he opted to stay in Boston. As a result he fell out of favor with critics and never achieved the kind of fame that Pollock and others did. He disliked self-promotion and never placed much value on critical acclaim. Many of Bloom's paintings feature rabbis, usually holding the Torah. According to Bloom, his intentions were more artistic than religious. He began questioning his Jewish faith early in life, and painted rabbis, he claimed, because that was what he knew. Over the course of his career he produced dozens of paintings of rabbis, some of whom bore no small resemblance to himself. When asked if they were self-portraits, he replied cryptically, \"When did I ever paint anything else? The Fuller Museum presented a full retrospective of his work in 1996. Another was organized by the National Academy of Design in New York in 2002. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum, the National Academy of Design, and many others. Hyman Bloom: The Beauty of All Things, a film about the artist's life and work, was released in October 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHonors and awards Critic's Choice Award from the Cincinnati Museum of Art for Christmas Tree, 1945 Guggenheim fellowship, 1949 Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1953 Ford Foundation fellowship, 1959 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1974 Elected to the National Academy of Design, 1984 Thomas R. Proctor Prize for Jew with Torah from the National Academy of Design, 1999\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSELECTED\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt Institute of Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBowdoin College Museum of Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDanforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellelsey, MA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFogg Art Museum, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewish Museum, New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLos Angeles County Museum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMinnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseum of Art, University of New Hampshire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseum of Modern Art, New York MoMA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseum of the National Academy of Design, New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeuberger Museum, Purchase, NY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinceton Museum of Art, Princeton University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSkirball Museum, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, CA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmart Museum of Art, University of Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmith College Art Museum, Northampton, MA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmithsonian American Art Museum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTelfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhitney Museum of American Art, New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYeshiva University Museum, New York\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628398281002,"sku":"a_15045312S1","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_D2CF0B88F6BF46F6AAD44EE15789B6F3_master_e468e745-0de9-4a02-9843-51ce245ccbf2.jpg?v=1780509986"},{"product_id":"new-york-school-abstract-expressionist-drawing-watercolor-painting-carmen-cicero","title":"New York School Abstract Expressionist Drawing Watercolor Painting Carmen Cicero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 22.5, W: 28.5 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a stylized figurative abstract expressionist nude. This one is hand signed and dated. From the style we are estimating it to the 1970's They have abstract stylized erotic male and female nude elements to them some have a stylized American flag.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarmen Louis Cicero (born 1926) is an American figurative abstract painter from Newark, New Jersey. Cicero attended the New Jersey State Teachers College (now Kean University) from 1947 to 1951. Cicero studied painting under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell at Hunter College in 1953. He received an MFA from Montclair State University in 1991.Cicero started as an abstract painter and use automatism in his drawings of memories of places. In 1957, Cicero had his first solo show at the Peridot Gallery, New York, showing with fellow artists Louise Bourgeois and Philip Guston. In the early 1960s, Cicero’s canvases began to be populated with intense, expressionist figures. These works positioned him as one of the earliest figurative expressionist painters of his generation. In 1971 a studio fire destroyed the work still in his possession. He moved to New York to a studio loft on the Bowery and started over in a dramatically different figurative style. In the 1990s, Cicero's style changed again, from figurative expressionism to visionary realism\/surrealism reminiscent of magic realism. His work spans three periods and styles Abstract Expressionism, Figurative Expressionism, and surrealist “visionary.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1970s and 1980s and produced a body of work that was well received both uptown on Madison Avenue and downtown during the heyday of the East Village art scene. He was represented by the Berta Walker Gallery. He lives in New York City and Truro on Cape Cod. He is also an accomplished jazz musician.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCicero taught painting at Sarah Lawrence College 1959 to 1968. Cicero was a professor of painting at Montclair State University from 1970 through 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA monograph, The Art of Carmen Cicero was published in 2013 by Schiffer Publishing in Atglen, PA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwards Guggenheim Fellowship 1957-58 and 63-64\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFord Foundation, Purchase Prizes 1961 and 65 Jackson Pollock- Lee Krasner Foundation Grant, 2008 Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Awards, 2016. Member of Artists Equity and PAAM.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Exhibitions Corcoran Gallery, 1957, 59,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuggenheim Museum Inaugural Show 1959,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRome 1959\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePAFA 1963 Peridot-Washburn Gallery, NYC 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWork by Cicero is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art Paris, France, Stedelijk Museum, Holland, Aldrich Museum Ridgefield, CT., the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Harvard Art Museums\/Fogg; Newark Museum; Montclair Museum of Art; National Academy Museum; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA; and Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628484002090,"sku":"a_15758412S1","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_3B65C1EB84BE4532A91CEAE27657FA0A_master_a39387d6-85f4-4a77-bfd2-18a1abcf0432.jpg?v=1780510793"},{"product_id":"german-expressionist-drawing-watercolor-painting-jules-pascin-cuba-scene-1910","title":"German Expressionist Drawing, Watercolor Painting Jules Pascin Cuba Scene 1910","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 19.5, W: 21.5 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenre: German Expressionist Subject: Woman, Cuban Scene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedium: watercolor paint, ink or pencil Surface: Paper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is hand signed lower right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is an inscription at bottom edge of paper. It has the words Cuba and USA. It is either signed 1910 or 1916 Framed it measures 19.5 X 21.5. sheet 9.25 X 12 This came from an estate. there was no additional paperwork or provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulius Mordecai Pincas (March 31, 1885 – June 5, 1930), known as Pascin Jules Pascin, or the \"Prince of Montparnasse\", was a Bulgarian artist known for his paintings and drawings. He later became an American citizen. His most frequent subject was women, depicted in casual poses, usually nude or partly dressed. Pascin was educated in Vienna and Munich. He traveled for a time in the United States, spending most of his time in the South. He is best known as a Parisian painter, who associated with the artistic circles of Montparnasse, and was one of the emigres of the School of Paris. Having struggled with depression and alcoholism, he committed suicide at the age of 45. Julius Mordecai Pincas was born in Vidin, Bulgaria, the eighth of eleven children, to the Sephardic Jewish family of a grain merchant named Marcus Pincas. Originally from Ruse, the Pincas family was one of the wealthiest in Vidin; they bought and exported corn, rice, maize and sunflower. His mother, Sofie (Sophie) Pincas, belonged to a Sephardic family, Russo, which had moved from Trieste to Zemun, where she and her husband lived before moving to Vidin and where their older children were born. The family spoke Ladino Judaeo-Spanish at home. In 1892, he moved with his parents to Bucharest, where his father opened a grain company, \"Marcus Pincas \u0026amp; Co\". Pascin worked briefly for his father’s firm at the age of fifteen, but also frequented a local brothel where he made his earliest drawings. His first artistic training was in Vienna in 1902 at age seventeen. In 1903 he relocated to Munich, where he studied at Moritz Heymann's academy. He studied briefly in Berlin where he befriended the Dada artist George Grosz. In 1905 he began contributing drawings to Simplicissimus, a satirical magazine published in Munich. Some portraits recall Otto Dix and Balthus. Because his father objected to the family name being associated with these drawings, the 20-year-old artist adopted the pseudonym Pascin (an anagram of Pincas). He continued to contribute drawings to a Munich daily until 1929. In December 1905, Pascin moved to Paris becoming part of the great migration of Jewish and Eastern European artists to that city (Marc Chagall. Chaim Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani amongst others) at the start of the 20th century. In 1907 he met Hermine Lionette Cartan David, also a painter, and they became lovers. In that same year he had his first solo exhibition at Paul Cassirer Gallery in Berlin. Despite his social life, Pascin created thousands of watercolors and sketches, plus drawings and caricatures that he sold to various newspapers and magazines. He exhibited his works in commercial galleries and in the Salon d’Automne, the Salon des Indépendants, and the exhibitions of the Berlin Secession and at the Sonderbund-Ausstellung in Cologne. Between 1905 and 1914 he exhibited drawings, watercolors, and prints, but rarely paintings. It was not until about 1907–1909 that he produced his first paintings, which were portraits and nudes in a style influenced by Fauvism and Cézanne. He wanted to become a serious painter, but in time he became deeply depressed over his inability to achieve critical success with his efforts. Dissatisfied with his slow progress in the new medium, he studied the art of drawing at the Académie Colarossi, and painted copies after the masters in the Louvre. He exhibited in the United States for the first time in 1913, when twelve of his works were shown at the Armory Show in New York. Pascin relocated to London at the outbreak of World War I to avoid service in the Bulgarian army and left for the United States on October 3, 1914. A few weeks later on October 31, Hermine David sailed for the United States to join him. Pascin and David lived in the United States from 1914 to 1920, sitting out World War I. They visited New York City, where David had an exhibit. Pascin frequented nightclubs, and met artists such as Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Guy Pene du Bois, but most of his time in America was spent traveling throughout the South. He also visited Cuba. He made many drawings of street life in Charleston, New Orleans, and other places he visited. Some of his works of 1915 and 1916 are in a Cubist style, which he soon abandoned. In 1918 Pascin married Hermine David at City Hall in New York City. Their witnesses were Max Weber and Maurice Sterne, friends and painters who both lived in New York. In September 1920, Pascin became a naturalized United States citizen, with support from Alfred Stieglitz and Maurice Sterne, but returned to Paris soon afterward. There he began a relationship with Lucy Vidil Krohg, who had been his lover ten years earlier but had married the Norwegian painter Per Krohg during Pascin's years in America. Especially after he returned to France, he became the symbol of the Montparnasse artistic community and is more associated with France than the United States. Always in his bowler hat, he was a witty presence, along with his good friend Constant Detré, at Le Dôme Café, Jockey-Club de Paris, and the other haunts of the area’s bohemian society. Pascin visited Bulgaria in 1923 and 1924 and at an uncertain later date. Like Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pascin drew upon his surroundings and his friends, both male and female, as subjects. During the 1920s, Pascin mostly painted fragile petites filles, prostitutes waiting for clients, or models waiting for the sitting to end. His fleetingly rendered paintings sold readily, but the money he made was quickly spent. Famous as the host of numerous large parties in his flat, whenever he was invited elsewhere for dinner, he arrived with as many bottles of wine as he could carry. He frequently led a large group of friends on summer picnics beside the River Marne, where their excursions lasted all afternoon. According to his biographer, Georges Charensol: Scarcely had he chosen his table at the Dôme or the Sélect than he would be surrounded by five or six friends; at nine o'clock, when we got up to dinner, we would be 20 in all, and later in the evening, when we decided to go up to Montmartre to Charlotte Gardelle's or the Princess Marfa's—where Pascin loved to take the place of the drummer in the jazz band—he had to provide for Among Pascin's circle of Parisian friends was Ernest Hemingway, whose memoir A Moveable Feast includes a chapter titled \"With Pascin At the Dôme\", which recounts a night in 1923 when he met Pascin and two of his young models for drinks at the café.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExhibitions:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGalerie Berthe Weill, Paris Berlin Secession Sounder bund-Ausstellung, Cologne Armory Show New York Salon d’Automne, Paris Salon des Indépendants, Paris Paul Cassirer Berlin Photographic Company New York Joseph Brummer Gallery Galerie Pierre, Paris Alfred Flechtheim Gallery, Dusseldorf Knoedler Gallery, NY Galerie Lucy Krohg, Paris Bezalel National Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israel University Art Museum at UC Berkeley UCLA Whitney Museum of American Ar Galerie des Beaux-arts, Bordeaux Haus der Kunst, Munich Musée d’Art Histoire, Geneva Palais de la Méditerranée in Nice National Museum, Belgrade Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais, Paris Hotel de Ville, Paris Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628489539882,"sku":"a_15897412S1","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_1FB92D70989B400C94C60A6FEB8A92FE_master_c8c7daf6-86da-4f1d-a6c4-bd342b0cc583.jpg?v=1780510915"},{"product_id":"german-neo-expressionist-color-pencil-drawing-erwin-pfrang","title":"German Neo Expressionist Color Pencil Drawing Erwin Pfrang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 20.63, W: 16.63 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951) Graphite, Colored Pencil on paper Framed 20.5\/8 X 16.5\/8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esheet 6 X 7.75\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErwin Pfrang (born 1951, in Munich) is a German painter and printmaker. Pfrang studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1974–79. Later he spent many years as an independent artist in Montepulciano, Val d’Orcia and Catania, Italy, interrupted by stays in Munich and Augsburg. He presently lives and works in Berlin. Erwin Pfrang is the grandson of the Munich folk comedian Konstantin Pfrang. Carla Schulz-Hoffmann makes an attempt at characterising the painter: “An artist such as Erwin Pfrang inhabits an alternative world, a tiny microcosm of subjectivity, and lives that life uncompromisingly, with all the limitations and hardships that it entails. Among twentieth-century artists a comparable stance can be encountered perhaps in Jean Fautrier, but certainly in Otto Wols.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis oeuvre relates in its figuration to Bosch or James Ensor and his oil painting to Lucian Freud in its painterly quality. Erwin Pfrang is represented by gallerists Fred Jahn, Munich (Exhibition: Don’t Forget Your Mask: Don’t (Part I: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Forget (Part II: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Your Mask (Part III: Don’t Forget Your Mask)Artists: Imi Knoebel, Barry Le Va, Karel Appel, Alexi Tsioris, William N. Copley, Isa Genzken, Konrad Klapheck, Gerhard Richter,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErwin Pfrang, Paula Rego,Hedwig Eberle, Hermann Nitsch, Stefan Vogel). David Nolan, New York. (A prominent gallery who shows Richard Artschwager, George Grosz, Jim Nutt, Georg Baselitz, Robert Crumb and other German Neo Expressionist artists.) Pfrang’s lifelong passion for literature becomes particularly evident in his involvement with the works of the Irish writer James Joyce. The result being three cycles of signed drawings about Dubliners and Ulysses. The New York Times called his drawings for the Circe episode of the novel: \"a brilliant solo debut.\" Other drawings are dedicated to the tale Tributsch by the German Expressionist writer Albert Ehrenstein and Gerald Barry's opera The Intelligence Park, libretto by Vincent Deane. This work has an Outsider art, Art Brut quality to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseums Albertina, Vienna Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Morgan Library \u0026amp; Museum, New York Museum Of Modern Art, New York MoMA (there are similar works online on their website) Neue Pinakothek, Munich Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImportant Exhibitions 1984 Zeichnungen, Fred Jahn Munich 1991 Circe Drawings, David Nolan, New York 1995 Dubliners and Related Works, David Nolan, New York 1998 Odysseus und kein Ende, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich 1999 Bilder, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich 2000 Paintings and Drawings, The Norwood Gallery, Austin, Texas 2004 Circe Drawings, Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin 2004 Bilder, Zeichnungen und Graphik, Völcker \u0026amp; Freunde Galerie, Berlin 2006 Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles 2007 Hades, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich 2007 Mostra di Erwin Pfrang, Università di Catania 2012 New Pictures, Fred Jahn, Munich 2015 New Pictures, Matthias Jahn, Munich 2016 Axel Pairon Gallery, Knokke 2018 Hope \u0026amp; Hazard, Curated by Eric Fischl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2019 Buchheim Museum, Bernried 2021-22 Katholische Akademie in Bayern, Munich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis work has been reviewed multiple times in the New York times including: Smith, Roberta, review of Alberto Giacometti: Prints \u0026amp; Erwin Pfrang, Frank Günzel, Rudi Tröger: Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York, The New York Times, 6. 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Pfrang studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1974–79. Later he spent many years as an independent artist in Montepulciano, Val d’Orcia and Catania, Italy, interrupted by stays in Munich and Augsburg. He presently lives and works in Berlin. Erwin Pfrang is the grandson of the Munich folk comedian Konstantin Pfrang. Carla Schulz-Hoffmann makes an attempt at characterising the painter: “An artist such as Erwin Pfrang inhabits an alternative world, a tiny microcosm of subjectivity, and lives that life uncompromisingly, with all the limitations and hardships that it entails. Among twentieth-century artists a comparable stance can be encountered perhaps in Jean Fautrier, but certainly in Otto Wols.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis oeuvre relates in its figuration to Bosch or James Ensor and his oil painting to Lucian Freud in its painterly quality. Erwin Pfrang is represented by gallerists Fred Jahn, Munich (Exhibition: Don’t Forget Your Mask: Don’t (Part I: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Forget (Part II: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Your Mask (Part III: Don’t Forget Your Mask)Artists: Imi Knoebel, Barry Le Va, Karel Appel, Alexi Tsioris, William N. Copley, Isa Genzken, Konrad Klapheck, Gerhard Richter,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErwin Pfrang, Paula Rego,Hedwig Eberle, Hermann Nitsch, Stefan Vogel). David Nolan, New York. (A prominent gallery who shows Richard Artschwager, George Grosz, Jim Nutt, Georg Baselitz, Robert Crumb and other German Neo Expressionist artists.) Pfrang’s lifelong passion for literature becomes particularly evident in his involvement with the works of the Irish writer James Joyce. The result being three cycles of signed drawings about Dubliners and Ulysses. The New York Times called his drawings for the Circe episode of the novel: \"a brilliant solo debut.\" Other drawings are dedicated to the tale Tributsch by the German Expressionist writer Albert Ehrenstein and Gerald Barry's opera The Intelligence Park, libretto by Vincent Deane. This work has an Outsider art, Art Brut quality to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseums Albertina, Vienna Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Morgan Library \u0026amp; Museum, New York Museum Of Modern Art, New York MoMA (there are similar works online on their website) Neue Pinakothek, Munich Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImportant Exhibitions 1984 Zeichnungen, Fred Jahn Munich 1991 Circe Drawings, David Nolan, New York 1995 Dubliners and Related Works, David Nolan, New York 1998 Odysseus und kein Ende, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich 1999 Bilder, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich 2000 Paintings and Drawings, The Norwood Gallery, Austin, Texas 2004 Circe Drawings, Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin 2004 Bilder, Zeichnungen und Graphik, Völcker \u0026amp; Freunde Galerie, Berlin 2006 Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles 2007 Hades, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich 2007 Mostra di Erwin Pfrang, Università di Catania 2012 New Pictures, Fred Jahn, Munich 2015 New Pictures, Matthias Jahn, Munich 2016 Axel Pairon Gallery, Knokke 2018 Hope \u0026amp; Hazard, Curated by Eric Fischl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2019 Buchheim Museum, Bernried 2021-22 Katholische Akademie in Bayern, Munich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis work has been reviewed multiple times in the New York times including: Smith, Roberta, review of Alberto Giacometti: Prints \u0026amp; Erwin Pfrang, Frank Günzel, Rudi Tröger: Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York, The New York Times, 6. 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Their first exhibitions were with Andy Warhol, Tony Cragg, Julião Sarmento, James Brown and Alex Katz. They also showed Cindy Sherman, David Salle, Sean Scully, Jan Fabre, Christian Boltanski and Olaf Metzel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Brown (1951 – 2020) was an American-born painter active in Paris and Oaxaca, Mexico. He was most well known in the 1980s for his rough painterly semi-figurative paintings, bearing affinities to Jean-Michel Basquiat and East Village painting of the time, but with influences from primitive art and classical Western modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Los Angeles, California, he received a BFA from Immaculate Heart College, Hollywood. He then spent years in Paris, and attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. He rebelled against the classical training there, which he considered irrelevant, but stayed as he wanted to stay in Paris. Tours of Europe seeing renaissance and especially medieval painting of Italy influenced his work. During the 1980s, his paintings, mixing the modernist tradition of painterly application and adherence to the picture surface with clear influences from tribal art. In the early 1980s, he began exhibiting in New York, and in this decade this work became a hit in the galleries and art press, sharing a look with the Bad Painting and young neo-expressionism of the East Village painters of the time. On 12 September 1987, he married Alexandra Condon, who was studying History of Art at NYU at the time. They had known each other for little more than ten years. Despite some time on the East and West coast of New York, he continued to live in Paris. With the fading of the East Village art scene he had increasingly shown in European galleries, where his work was now seen in the context of a post-war European modernism in the tradition of Jean Dubuffet. James and Alexandra had their first child, Degenhart Maria Grey Brown, on 24 September 1989 in New York. In 1991 their second boy, Cosmas And Damian Maria Todosantos Brown, was born on 6 June in Paris. On 16 April 1993, their daughter was born, Dagmar Maria Jane Brown, in New York. In 1995 he moved out to the valley of Oaxaca (Mexico) with his family, where they lived in a hacienda for nine years. During that time, James Brown continued exhibiting in Europe, the United States and Mexico. He and his wife collaborated with various artists, making rugs in a village in the mountains of Oaxaca. The rugs were made in the traditional Mexican fashion, weaved by hand on large wooden frames. James and Alexandra then decided to start making books with artists, so they started Carpe Diem Press. Like the rugs, these books are printed in Oaxaca using old-fashioned and traditional methods. The books are printed in limited editions, and Carpe Diem Press continues to collaborate with artists. In 2004, they moved to the city of Mérida, in the Yucatán. Since then James Brown spent much time in Europe, exhibiting his work in France, Germany, Italy and Holland. He worked mostly in Paris. His work has taken on several styles over the years but maintains a hand-made look combining concerns of the modernist tradition with motifs and spiritual interests from tribal art. Much of his work is a non-realistic but contains depictions or signs of recognizable faces or objects. More recently he has done more in an abstract mode. However, the line between representation and abstraction is often a difficult one in his work, such as his more recent \"Firmament Series\" – abstract canvases that can also be read as referring to constellations or stars, or groups of rocks. Besides paintings Brown has also produced sculptures and series of prints at various points in his career, and in the 1990s started to heavily utilize collage. Drawing and other unique works on paper have been important to his artistic development and production. In an Artforum review of a 25-year retrospective, Martha Schwendener noted, \"The works range from abstract gouaches to biomorphic and figurative watercolors to collage that update the synthetic Cubist experiments of Pablo Picasso and George Braque.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Brown has shown in many galleries from the early 1980s to the present. He has shown across the United States and Europe, as well as other places in the world, and since 1999 increasingly in Mexico. Several of his prints and paintings are included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Selected shows include: 1983 Tony Shafrazi, \"Champions,\" New York (Group Show with Donald Baechler, James Brown, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Futura 2000),\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1983 Nature Morte, New York 1985 Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland 1986 Leo Castelli, New York, New York 1994 \"Terrae Motus\" collection, Royal Palace of Caserta 1995 Leo Castelli, February, New York 2001 Pace Prints, February, Catalogue raisonne graphic work. New York 2005 Ex-Escuela Quintana Roo, \"James Brown 10 acos en Oaxaca,\" Mérida, Mexico. 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He was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the \"Ofakim Hadashim\" (New Horizons) group. orn in Berlin in 1916, Izhak Danziger moved to Palestine in 1923. From 1934-1937 Danziger studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. During the 1940s he worked in Paris with Zadkine and Brancusi. In the 1950s he exhibited in London at the Institute of Contemporary Art. He is considered to be one of Israel's most important sculptors. His work, which consists largely of environmental pieces, has been exhibited at the Hisrshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. In 1969 Danziger was awarded the Sandberg Prize by the Israel museum. He died in 1977. When discussing Chariot II, Mordechai Omer compares it to a work of similar subject by Alberto Giacometti. He explains that Danziger, unlike Giacometti, removes the figure, leaving only the chariot itself. Omer eloquently explains that \"The vehicle designed to serve the needs of the person inside is devoid of this human presence, with only the memories of its headlong downhill journeys leaving their mark in the parts of a half-ruined, half-standing chariot, allowing wide scope for the viewer's imagination. If Giacometti's chariots reminded him of hospital pharmacy wagons, Danziger's gleaming brass chariots, with their clean geometric shapes, are more reminiscent of the equipages of battle or triumphal processions, whose journeys left their secrets in the implements built by men to help them cover the distances they wished to travel.\" (Itzhak Danziger, exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv and The Open Museum, Indusrial Park, Tefen, 1996, p. 248) Danziger's chariot sculptures were given as prizes for the Israel Museum Book awards. Danziger was born in Berlin in 1916 to a Zionist family. His father was a surgeon and served in the German Army during World War I. The family immigrated to then Mandate Palestine in 1923 and settled in Jerusalem. Danziger studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art 1934–37. He was influenced by his visits to the British Museum, the Anthropological Museum and the art from Ancient Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, India and Oceania and Africa. 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The artist avoids use of color, light and shadow emphasizing the contour of the figure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628632047914,"sku":"a_17623622S1","price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/10000564_e_fwf_master_86bb9145-657b-4f77-869b-22f59faa2bff.jpg?v=1780512084"},{"product_id":"veiled-series-x-abstract-expressionist-organic-drawing-watercolor-painting","title":"Veiled Series X , Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 20.0, W: 16.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida. She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art. On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas. She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970. In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973. Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said. During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake. By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGroup Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel. Alice Baber, Isabel Bishop, Audrey Flack, Mary Frank, Buffie Johnson, Yvonne Jacquette, Lila Katzen, Elaine De Kooning, Joyce Wienstein. \"Women Artists Paint Women Artists,\" Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami, FL 1978;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Artist Choice,\" Clayworks Gallery, New York, NY 1979, included: Marisol, Joyce Weinstein, Marlyn Dintenfass, Clinton Hill, Joe Stallone, Peter Voulkos, David Hare, Susan Weil, Philip Pavia, Ka Kwong Hui, Jack Beal, Jolyn Hofsted, Terry Rosenberg, Bernie Kirschenbaum. Her work is unique in its use of ribbon-like shape and use of bright colors. Her sculptures are crafted out of aluminum covered in enamel. Her Colorfall, is a 40-foot tall sculpture hanging in the lobby of Wilmington's Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts. During her lifetime, the Women's Caucus for Art awarded Gillespie its Outstanding Services award in 2001. Dorothy Gillespie died in Coral Gables, Florida on Sunday September 30, 2012. She established a foundation to continue her work and the women's art movement after her death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628655051050,"sku":"a_17968112S1","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_B0D8A05697EE4862B72B728BFE46BB8F_master_854eaa91-676a-42f0-9b92-26cc9e2f25ce.jpg?v=1780512221"},{"product_id":"still-life-with-vera-as-raphael-original-drawing","title":"Still Life with Vera as Raphael Original Drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 27.0, W: 21.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this delicate drawing, artist Josef Levi takes reference to art history by combining figures within one composition. The two characters depicted in this composition utilize the bottom half of the great artist Raphael, gradually phasing into the portrait of lovely lady named Vera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosef Alan Levi (1938) is an American artist whose works range over a number of different styles, but which are unified by certain themes consistently present among them. Levi began his artistic career in the 1960s and early '70s, producing highly abstract and very modernist pieces: these employing exotic materials such as light fixtures and metallic parts. By 1975, Levi had transitioned to painting and drawing still lifes. At first these were, traditionally, of mundane subjects. Later, he would depict images from art history, including figures originally created by the Old Masters. Around 1980, he made another important shift, this time toward creating highly precise, though subtly altered reproductions of pairs of female faces which were originally produced by other artists. It is perhaps this work for which he is most well known. Since around 2000, Josef Levi has changed the style of his work yet again: now he works entirely with computers, using digital techniques to abstract greatly from art history, and also from other sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLevi's works of art in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the National Gallery of Art, and the Albright-Knox Museum, among many others. Levi's art has been featured on the cover of Harper's Magazine twice, once in June 1987, and once in May 1997. Josef Levi received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 from the University of Connecticut, where he majored in fine arts and minored in literature. From 1959 to 1960, he served to a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and from 1960 through 1967 he was in the U.S. Army Reserves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1966, he received the Purchase Award from the University of Illinois in 1966, and he was featured in New Talent U.S.A. by Art in America. He was an artist in residence at Appalachian State University in 1969, taught at Farleigh Dickenson University in 1971 and was a visiting professor of art at Pennsylvania State University in 1977. From 1975 to 2007, Levi resided in New York City. He now lives in an apartment in Rome, where he is able to paint with natural light as he was unable in New York. From 1959 to 1960, Josef took some courses of Howard McParlin Davis and Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University which initiated him into the techniques of reproducing the works of the Old Masters. His first works, created in the 1960s, were wood and stone sculptures of women. His first mature works were abstract pieces, constructed of electric lights and steel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1970, Levi's materials included fluorescent light bulbs, Rust-Oleum and perforated metal in addition to paint and canvas. By 1980, Josef Levi's art had transformed into a very specific form: a combination of reproductions of female faces which were originally depicted by other artists. The faces which he reproduces may be derived from either portraits or from small portions of much larger works; they are taken from paintings of the Old Masters, Japanese ukiyo-e, and 20th-century art. Artists from whom he has borrowed include: Vermeer, Rembrandt, Piero della Francesca, Botero, Matisse, Utamaro, Correggio, Da Vinci, Picasso, Chuck Close, Max Beckmann, Pisanello, Lichtenstein. The creation of these works is informed by Levi's knowledge and study of art history. Josef Levi's paintings from this period are drawn, then painted on fine linen canvas on wooden stretchers. The canvas is coated with twenty-five layers of gesso in order to produce a smooth surface on which to work. The drawing phase takes at least one month. Levi seals the drawing with acrylic varnish, and then he may apply layers of transparent acrylic in order to approximate the look of old paintings. After the last paint is applied, another layer of acrylic varnish is sprayed on to protect the work. Most of the figures in his contemporary pieces are not paired with any others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSELECTED\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, NY ALBRIGHT- KNOX GALLERY, BUFFALO, NY ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, RIDGEFIELD, CT NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, DC BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART, BROOKLYN, NY SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY, WASHINGTON, DC CORCORAN GALLERY, WASHINGTON, DC UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME ART GALLERY, NOTRE DAME, IN ARKANSAS ART CENTER, LITTLE ROCK, AR HOOD MUSEUM OF ART, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, HANOVER, NH BANK OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK, NY CHRYSLER CORPORATION, DETROIT, MI EXXON CORPORATION, NEW YORK, NY AT\u0026amp;T CORPORATION, NEW YORK, NY BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, BRUNSWICK, ME NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW BRITAIN, CN STORM KING ART CENTER, MOUNTAINVILLE, NY YALE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, NEW HAVEN, CT\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628657508650,"sku":"a_18035122S1","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_F5D0369F9C8641A287F064EF0171BB91_master_f3bb006e-1fa3-46a7-915e-81cbaac3a4b7.jpg?v=1780512251"},{"product_id":"william-anthony-caricature-drawing-woman-with-lollipop","title":"William Anthony Caricature Drawing Woman with Lollipop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 19.0, W: 22.0 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esight size is irregular. size includes frame..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn scrawly pencil lines, William Anthony outlines figures that look like sock puppets with oversize heads and sausage-shaped limbs. And if you look closely, you discover that his primitivistic lines are made with an exactingly delicate touch and that his smudgy brushwork has a finely tuned sensuousness of hue and surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Anthony, born 1934, Forth Monmouth, NJ. and grew up in Washington State. Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1958 Yale, New Haven, CT, B.A European History 1959-60 San Francisco Art Institute, CA 1961\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt Students League, NY American painter and draftsman William Anthony was born 1934 in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. While majoring in history at Yale University, Anthony attended a few art courses, one of which was taught by Josef Albers. He also attended the Art Students' League in 1958 and 1961. After graduating from Yale, he joined his family in California, where he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1962, Anthony taught figure drawing at a commercial art school in San Francisco, where he developed a method of drawing that resulted in his book A New Approach to Figure Drawing. Two years later he moved to New York City. From 1977 to 1978, Anthony made a series of drawings for Andy Warhol's magazine Interview, and published another book Bible Stories. In 1983, he married Norma Neuman, and continued to produce and exhibit his art work, including solo exhibitions in New York, California, and Europe. In 1988, the Jargon Society published an additional book, Bill Anthony's Greatest Hits. In 2000 another book, War Is Swell, was published by Smart Art Press. Since then he has had five one-man exhibitions with Stalke Gallery, Denmark. In 2013 Stalke published a book of Anthony's work, Ironic Icons, by Sam Jedig.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628663570730,"sku":"a_18081932S1","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_F740C4973B77434F80D8309F19D4E546_master_6d018cfc-718e-4f40-9e7d-524b8d8e5489.jpg?v=1780512297"}],"url":"https:\/\/lionsgallery.com\/collections\/drawings.oembed","provider":"Lions Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}