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James Torlakson
Fast Eddies, 1996

1996

$5,000
£3,809.24
€4,392.20
CA$6,997.40
A$7,818.43
CHF 4,089.90
MX$95,878.98
NOK 52,261.21
SEK 49,557.48
DKK 32,781.36
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'Fast Eddies, 1996' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 10 x 15 inches and 19.5 x 23.5 inches professionally framed and ready to hang. "Torlakson's work depicts majesty in the mundane, featuring everyday “Americana" scenes include suburban landscapes, traveling carnivals, standing fireworks booths, abandoned drive-in theaters, and autobiographical still life scenes from his Bay Area neighborhood memories and travels. Torlakson is a contemporary artist, proficiently working in oil, watercolor and intaglio etching, and employing European master techniques to create compelling works that pull the viewer in and tell universal stories of our times. Artist signed and dated. Condition is new and pristine. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco, CA Oakland Museum of California; Oakland, CA Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; San Francisco, CA Brooklyn Museum; Brooklyn, NY Albright Knox Art Gallery; Buffalo, NY Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute; Pittsburgh, PA Mueum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; Providence, RI New York Public Library, Print Collection; New York, NY Chicago Art Institute; Chicago, IL Library of Congress; Washington, D.C. Delaware Art Museum; Wilmington, DE Denver Art Museum; Denver, CO Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Santa Barbara, CA Detroit Art Institute; Detroit, MI Stanford University Museum of Art; Stanford, CA University Art Museum, Rutgers University; New Jersey, NJ De Cordova Museum; Lincoln, MA Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ Boise Art Museum; Boise, ID University Art Museum; U.C. Berkeley; Berkeley, CA Arkansas Art Center; Little Rock, Arkansas Hearst Art Gallery; Saint Mary’s College; Moraga, CA Andra Norris Gallery in Burlingame, CA
  • Creator:
    James Torlakson (1951)
  • Creation Year:
    1996
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Width: 23.5 in (59.69 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Burlingame, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: TORJ1stDibs: LU375310341472

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