Ralph Arnold
'Cascade' — Contemporary African American Artist
!986-88

About the Item

Ralph Arnold, 'Cascade', mixed media: acrylic, pencil, conté crayon, marker, oil; 1986-88. Signed 'Arnold' and dated '86-88' in pencil, lower right. A fine, spontaneous abstraction, on heavy, cream wove paper; painted to the sheet edges; multiple but barely visible tack holes in the four sheet corners, otherwise in excellent condition. Image/sheet size 22 3/4 x 22 3/8 inches (578 x 568 mm). Archivally float-matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THE ARTIST Painter, collagist, muralist, and educator, Ralph Arnold (1928-2006) was an influential artistic presence in his native Chicago for decades. In 1955, Arnold graduated from Roosevelt University with a BFA, and then served in the Korean War. In 1976, he earned his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1972 -2000, he taught at Loyola University in Chicago and became chair of the Art department. Arnold was an adjunct lecturer at the Art Institute of Chicago and was a member of the Illinois Arts Council for more than thirty years. Arnold's work is held in many museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the DePaul Art Museum, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, and Fisk University. Arnold's extensive work in photo collage was the subject of the Art Design Chicago 2018 exhibition The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Loyola College, Chicago. Arnold's work was also included in the concurrent 2018 exhibition The Time Is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago's Southside 1960 - 1980 at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.

Creator:

Ralph Arnold (1928 - 2006, American)

Creation Year:

!986-88

Dimensions:

Height: 22.75 in (57.79 cm)Width: 22.38 in (56.85 cm)

Medium:

Conté,Oil,Acrylic,Felt Pen

Movement & Style:

Abstract Geometric

Period:

1980-1989