Boston Modernist Color Etching Smoking Pipe Aaron Fink Pop Art Print Americana

Dimensions: H: 22.5, W: 30.0 IN

Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955)

Etching on paper titled "Untitled (Colored Pipe),"

Depicting an abstracted pipe with bright pink smoke floating from the bowl.

Hand signed in pencil and dated 1987 along the lower right; numbered 25/50 along the lower left. Provenance: Distinguished corporate collection, Minnesota. Unframed; 22.5 X 30 inches

Born in Boston, Fink received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, the Rockford Art Museum, Illinois, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins. In 2002 a monograph on Fink’s work, Out of the Ordinary, was published, with text by Eleanor Heartney. In 1983 Fink met the collector John Powers, who remained a strong supporter of his work until his death in 1999. Fink’s work is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hara Museum, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among many others. Fink currently divides his time between Boston and Rockport, Massachusetts.

S E L E C T E D

C O L L E C T I O N S

Art Institute of Chicago

Bank of America

Boston Public Library

Bouwfonds Netherlandse Gemeenten, The Netherlands

Brooklyn Museum of Art

Castelli Collection, New York

Chase Manhattan Bank

Chemical Bank

Childrens Hospital, Chicago

Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingofrd, CT

Citizens Bank, Boston

Coopers & Lybrand

Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

Danish House of Parliament

Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Lincoln, MA

Farnsworth Museum, Maine

Fidelity Investments, Boston

Firstbank of Minneapolis

Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA

G.E. Corporation

Goldman Sachs & Company

IBM, New York

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Library of Congress

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

New York Public Library

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

United States Department of State

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Awards Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO, 1998, 1996 National Endowment for the Arts, 1987, 1982 Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1984 American Academy in Rome, Prix de Rome – Alternate in Painting, 1979 Yale University, Ford Foundation Special Project Grant, Fall 1979 Skowhegan Scholarship Award, conferred by the Maryland Institute College of Art, Spring 1976

Selected Shows:

Hartje Gallerie, Frankfurt, Germany, 1989 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, 1988 Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1988 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1987 Gallery Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1977 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY, 1987 Hartje Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany, 1986 Leo Castelli Uptown, New York, NY, 1986 Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1985 Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1977 Galerie Barbara Farber at The Forum Art Fair, Zurich, 1985 American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1982, 1981 Hayden Corridor Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Cambridge, MA,1980