Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Jack Balas is an artist whose work primarily includes painting, drawing and photography; occasionally cross-pollinated with writing and other media. After earning his BFA and MFA in sculpture from Northern Illinois University, Balas moved from the Chicago area to Los Angeles, where he worked as a cross-country art shipper, driving between Los Angeles and New York on a route that regularly took him through the western landscapes that have come to define much of his work. Eventually moving away from sculpture entirely, Balas began producing paintings of athletic young men, annotated and layered with numbers, illustrations, personal anecdotes, and other disparate elements that offer a depiction of idealized masculinity in America through the lens of Balas's personal experiences; as well as a contemporary counterpoint to the art-historical archetype of the female nude. A 1995 recipient of an Individual Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts, Balas is now represented in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Denver Art Museum, Colorado; the Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; the 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; the Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico; and the Usiminas Cultural Institute, Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil; among others. Balas currently divides his time between Denver and Tucson.
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Artist: Jack Balas
Getty, Get Ready (#1219)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
This watercolor painting by Jack Balas is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Getty, Get Ready (#1219)
2015
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
Watercolor on paper
15 x 22 inches
Category
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
El Temor (The Fear) (#1719)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
El Temor (The Fear) (#1719)
2019
Signed in black ink, l.c.
Watercolor, acrylic, and India ink on paper
30 x 22 inches
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
First Draft (#1707)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
First Draft (#1707)
2019
Signed in black ink, c.r.
Watercolor, acrylic, and India ink on paper
22 x 30 inches
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
Lieutenant (#1899)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
India ink and watercolor on paper
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Catsndogs (1)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
India ink and watercolor on paper
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Some Other Time (#1979)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
India ink and watercolor on paper
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Tiger) (#1944)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
India ink and watercolor on paper
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Game's Up (#1919)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
India ink and watercolor on paper
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Preface (#1946)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
India ink and watercolor on paper
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Ship of Cools (#1318)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Full title: "Ship of Cools, or, A Jolly Load of Boatmen Flat-Out Crossing the Mainstream, Some Being Kings, and Some Being 'Vagabonds' (We Await Your Applause) (#1318)"
Watercolor, acrylic, and ink on paper (Diptych)
Signed in black ink, l.l.
This artwork references George Caleb Bingham’s 1846 painting “The Jolly Flatboatmen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
Crown (#1248)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor and acrylic on paper
Signed in black ink, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes framing.
Jack Balas is an artist whose work ...
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2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Flow (#340)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor and screen print on paper
Signed in black ink, u.l.
Titled in black ink, l.l.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes framing.
Jack Balas...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Screen, Paper
Carnegie International
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic and watercolor on paper
Signed in black ink, l.c.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes framing.
Jack Balas...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Paper, Acrylic
Dust Jacket (#1199)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor, ink, and acrylic on paper
Signed in black ink, l.r.
Also signed and dated in blue ink, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes framing.
Jack...
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2010s Other Art Style Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Hitch (#1225)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor and acrylic on paper
Signed in black ink, l.c.
Also signed and dated in blue ink, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes framing.
Jack Balas...
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2010s Other Art Style Jack Balas Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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