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John Chamberlain
Poster of Abstract Expressionist sculptor John Chamberlain Hand Signed by artist

1988

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John Chamberlain (Hand Signed), 1988 Offset Lithograph Poster (Hand Signed by John Chamberlain) 30 × 20 inches Boldly signed on the recto in white grease marker by the artist in his inimitable hand. Provenance: Gifted directly by the artist to a major arts organization (this is one of four hand signed posters Chamberlain himself donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. We know of none other that he signed). Unframed Poster of renowned sculptor John Chamberlain, boldly signed by the artist in white grease marker on the occasion of his 1988 exhibition at Margo Leavin gallery. Acquired from the Margo Leavin Gallery More about John Chamberlain: John Chamberlain was born on April 16, 1927, in Rochester, Indiana. He grew up in Chicago and attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1951 to 1952. At that time he began making flat welded sculptures influenced by the work of David Smith. In 1955 and 1956 Chamberlain studied and taught sculpture at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. By 1957 he had begun to include scrap metal from cars in his work, and from 1959 onwards concentrated on creating sculptures built entirely by welding parts of crushed automobiles. Chamberlain’s first major solo show was held at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York in 1960. Chamberlain’s work was widely acclaimed in the early 1960s. Beginning in 1962 he showed frequently at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, and in 1964 his work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale. While he continued to make sculpture from cars parts, Chamberlain also experimented with other mediums. From 1963 to 1965 he made geometric paintings with automobile spray paint. In 1966, he received the first of two fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and began a series of sculptures of rolled, folded, and tied urethane foam. These were followed in 1970 by sculptures made of melted or crushed metal and heat-crumpled Plexiglas. Chamberlain’s work was presented in a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1971. In the early 1970s Chamberlain began once more to make large-scale works using automobile parts, which he assembled on the ranch of collector Stanley Marsh in Amarillo, Texas, until the mid-1970s. In 1977 he began experimenting with photography using a panoramic Widelux camera. His next major retrospective was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 1986. In 1993 Chamberlain received both the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture and the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center. In 1997 Chamberlain was named a recipient of the National Arts Club’s Gold Medal Visual Arts Award, and in 1999 he received the Distinction in Sculpture Honor from the Sculpture Center in New York. During the 2000s Chamberlain expanded into the new medium of large-scale photography. Chamberlain died in New York on December 21, 2011. -Courtesy of Peggy Guggenheim Collection
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