Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
American, 1939-1995
A sculptor of animals and American Indian shamanistic objects, filmmaker, and painter, Nancy Graves had a highly successful and varied career, primarily in New York City. In her abstract work, she united her interest in anthropology, totemic objects, cartography, and biomorphic shapes. She was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and became a graduate of Vassar College in 1961 and then Yale University's School of Art and Architecture. Graves won a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship for painting, allowing her to spend a year in Paris in 1964-65. In the next few years, she traveled in North Africa and the Near East and lived and worked in Florence, Italy where she did her first signature work, which was sculptures of life-size Bactrian camels.
In 1966, she moved to New York City and further experimented with ways to produced these sculptures by building wood and steel armatures, covering them with skins of animal embryos, stuffing the skins with polyurethane to form humps, and tinting the skins with oil paints.
In 1968, she had her first New York one-woman show at the Graham Gallery followed by her second one-woman show at the Whitney Museum in 1969. Both exhibitions featured her camels.
In 1972 at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, she made sculpture suggestive of Indian objects such as bones, skins, and feathers and added also steel rods to this motif for other exhibitions.
As a filmmaker, she has had showings in film festivals in London, New York, and Boston.
Source: Charlotte Rubinstein, "American Women Artists"(Biography provided by Fine Art San Diego)
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Artist: Nancy Graves
5745, for the Jewish Museum original signed/n abstract expressionist screenprint
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Graves
5745, for the Jewish Museum, 1984
Silkscreen on paper
Signed, numbered 5/90 and dated in graphite pencil on the front; bears publishers' blind stamp front left corner
3...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Graphite, Screen
Neferchidea /// Abstract Geometric Expressionist Nancy Graves Female Artist
By Nancy Graves
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Nancy Graves (American, 1939-1995)
Title: "Neferchidea"
Portfolio: Black Ground Series
*Signed and dated by Graves in pencil lower right
Year: 1987
Medium: Original Etching, ...
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1980s Abstract Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
Original Graham Gallery poster (hand signed by Nancy Graves)
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Graves
Original Graham Gallery poster (hand signed by Nancy Graves), 1968
Extremely rare vintage offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Nancy Graves)
hand signed by Nancy Graves in pencil on the front
Frame included: held in museum quality wood frame with UV plexiglass
Publisher:
Graham Gallery
This late 1960s vintage Graham Gallery poster is hand signed by Nancy Graves on the front. It was published on the occasion of her "Camels" exhibition - a groundbreaking show in the artist's young life, as she died at age 54 of breast cancer. (People forget how brave she was, a sharp counterpoint to the style of the macho Minimalists of the era, like her ex husband Richard Serra.) The following year -- in 1969 - Nancy Graves became the first woman ever to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum.
We've never seen another of these posters anywhere else in the world - let alone one hand signed by Nancy Graves.
Elegantly framed in a museum quality wood frame with UV plexiglass
Measurements:
Frame:
17 x 17.5 x 1.5 inches
Work:
10 x 10.75 inches
About Nancy Graves:
Nancy Graves (1940–1995) was born in Massachusetts. Her father worked as an accountant at the local Berkshire Museum, where art was displayed with natural history. He encouraged his daughter’s early interests in art, nature and anthropology — interests which endured for the rest of her life. After graduating from Vassar College with a degree in English Literature, Graves attended Yale University, where she earned both a B.A. and an M.A. in Art, studying alongside Chuck Close, Robert Mangold and Brice Marsden.
Following Yale, she won a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship in 1964, and began studying painting in Paris — where she also married sculptor Richard Serra, whom she had met at Yale (and from whom she would divorce in 1970). Moving on to Florence soon after, she would live a somewhat nomadic life, spending time in countries that included Morocco, Kashmir, India, Egypt, Peru, Australia and Canada.
From a point of view that she described as “objective,” Graves transformed scientific sources, such as maps and diagrams, into artworks by re-producing their complex visual information in detailed paintings and drawings. Investigating the intersections between art and scientific disciplines, Graves created compelling, formally rigorous, yet ultimately expressive works of art that examine concepts of repetition, variation, verisimilitude, and the presentation and perception of visual information.
Based in SoHo, New York, Graves gained prominence in the late 1960s as a post-Minimalist artist for innovative camel, fossil, totem, and bone sculptures that were hand formed and assembled from unusual materials such as fur, burlap, canvas, plaster, latex, wax, steel, fiberglass and wood. Made in reaction to Pop and Minimalism, these works reference archaeological sites, anthropology, and natural science displays. Suspended from the ceiling or clustered directly on the floor, these early sculptures also engage with Conceptualist ideas of display. For her Whitney Museum presentation Graves exhibited three seemingly realistic sculptures of camels in an installation that evoked taxidermy specimens and questioned issues of verisimilitude in art and science, particularly in light of their hand patched and painted fur surfaces. The exhibition elicited wide spread critical responses and established her artistic significance.
After intensely engaging with sculpture in the early 1970s, Graves returned to painting. Her detailed pointillist canvasses re-produced — in paint — images culled from documentary nature photographs, NASA satellite recordings, and Lunar maps...
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1960s Post-Minimalist Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Lithograph, Pencil, Offset
Approaches the Limit of I (Padon 25. Tyler Graphics 208:NG7) Signed 22/30 FRAMED
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Graves
Approaches the Limit of I (Padon 25), 1981
Nine color lithograph on white Arches Cover mould-made paper
Pencil signed, dated and numbered 22/30 by Nancy Graves on the fr...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Lithograph, Pencil
Untitled (colorful, abstract print)
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
This edition was commissioned in 1980 by Lincoln Center to commemorate its 10th Annual Community Festival. The signed and numbered edition is 144 was printed at Fine Creations.
Born in 1940 (Pittsfield, MA), Nancy Graves explored the interplay between the replication of nature and the formal values of abstract art in her wide variety of works throughout her life. Thought she first gained attention with her realistic, life-sized camel sculptures, she was later inspired to draw, paint and print by visual representations of natural phenomena, like weather and moon maps...
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1980s Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Screen
Calibrate
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Graves
Calibrate, 1981
16 color etching, aquatint, engraving and lithograph. Printed from 5 copper plates, 1 zinc plate and 1 stone
Hand signed, numbered, dated on the front
Fr...
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1980s Abstract Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Aquatint, Lithograph, Etching
Exhibition Poster (Hand signed and inscribed to the founder of Tallix Foundry)
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Graves
Nancy Graves: A Survey 1969/1980 (Hand signed and inscribed to Dick Polich of Tallix), 1980
Offset lithograph poster (hand signed, dated and ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Offset
To Be Little Consciousness - Original Aquatint by Nancy Graves - 1991
By Nancy Graves
Located in Roma, IT
To Be Little Consciousness is an original contemporary artwork realied by Nancy Graves in 1991.
Mixed colored aquatint and soft varnish.
Hand signed an...
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1980s Abstract Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Aquatint
Vertigo
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
Signed and numbered in pencil with studio blindstamp
Color screenprint on Arches Cover paper
29.75 x 35.5 inches
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1980s Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Screen
Large Nancy Graves Color Aquatint Drypoint Etching Screenprint Metallic Gold
By Nancy Graves
Located in Surfside, FL
Nancy Graves, American (1939-1995)
Borborygmi (1988)
aquatint, drypoint, gold leaf and screenprint on Fabriano Artistico paper
pencil hand signed by arti...
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1980s Contemporary Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Screen
Borborygmi
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
Borborygmi, 1988
Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil in lower margin
Aquatint with colors
49 x 49 inches
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1980s Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Aquatint
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