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Joe TilsonCulture Carriers Stamp Out Art (Lt. Ed. hand signed stamp on franked envelope)1971
1971
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JOE TILSON
Culture Carriers Stamp Out Art (Hand Signed), from the Collection of Art Critic Anthony Haden-Guest, 1971
Lithograph mounted on franked Airmail envelope (SIGNED)
4 1/4 × 8 3/5 inches
Edition of 250 (unnumbered)
Signed in ink by Joe Tilson with his initials on the lower left of the lithographic stamp, affixed to the envelope.
Unframed
As a consequence of the prolonged strike by the Royal Mail postal workers in the United Kingdom, Joe Tilson along with a group of top British Pop artists of the era including David Hockney, Allen Jones, Derek Boshier, (famed poet) Christopher Logue and Richard Hamilton, published ''Culture Carriers Stamp Out Art''to raise funds for the striking workers. The "stamps" were published in a limited edition of only 250 each (some artists, like Paolozzi and Allen Jones created more than one design), with the artists signing each by hand in blue ink with their initials on the lower left. The stamp itself measures 2.5 by 2.25 inches, and it is affixed to a franked (postmarked) International Airmail envelope which measures 4.25 inches by 8.6 inches, bearing the stamped text "Culture Carriers 23 Feb 1971" on the top left, and the stamp "CULTURE CARRIERS STAMP OUT ART" on the lower left (front). and the stamp "STRIKE ISSUE" lower right front of the envelope. Very desirable as an ensemble. these were known as The Post Office Worker's Strike Commemoration Stamps. This particular piece has superb and interesting provenance, as it came from the private collection of the American art critic Anthony Haden-Guest. As additional provenance, we will furnish the buyer with a xerox copy of the receipt from Flair Magazine, and a list of buyers of the stamps -- as Haden-Guest was apparently tasked with collecting funds from collectors for their purchased works through Flair magazine. The artwork consists not just of the signed, limited edition Tilson postage "stamp", but also the franked Airmail envelope, which it is affixed to, with the stamps as described above. The entire mixed media piece is far more desirable than the stamp alone.
This will look terrific when framed. An unusual and memorable gift for any Joe Tilson fan - and a great piece of art historical ephemera. A veritable piece of 1970s British Pop (and Royal Mail) - history!
Joe Tilson Biography:
Joe Tilson (1928 - 2023) was born in London, England. From 1944 to 1946 he worked as a carpenter and cabinet maker before serving in the R.A.F between 1946 and 1949. After leaving military service, he returned to London to study at St. Martin's School of Art from 1949 to 1952, alongside Leon Kosoff and Frank Auerbach, and at the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 55 where he met Peter Blake, Allen Jones, Patrick Caulfield and David Hockney, who alongside Tilson were instrumental in the birth of British Pop Art.
In 1955 the Royal College awarded Tilson the Rome Prize, taking him to live in Italy for a year, a country from which he has drawn a lifetime of inspiration. He returned to London in 1957 and took up teaching positions over the next five years at St Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art before travelling to New York to teach at The School of Visual Arts.
One of the founding figures of British Pop, Tilson was an enthusiastic proponent of political activism, sexual liberation and social change. He consistently broke the pre-existing boundaries of printing and print-making as he sought to widen the scope and impact of contemporary art. However, by 1970, Tilson became increasingly disillusioned with the consumer society that Pop Art had done so much to highlight and increasingly frustrated with the lack of political action that the 1960s in Britain had promised. He moved from London to the countryside and his subject matter changed radically as he turned towards cultural history as a source of inspiration.
Tilson has been a lifelong dedicated printmaker and has gained a reputation as one of Britain's foremost artists producing prints, multiples, constructions, paintings and reliefs. Exhibiting globally since the 1960s, Tilson's work is also held in collections including the Tate, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Galleria Nazionale d Arte Moderna, Rome; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Yale Centre for British Art, Connecticut; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Tilson was elected a Royal Academician in 2001, becoming a Senior Academician in 2003 when the Royal Academy presented a retrospective of his work. In 2019 he unveiled a new site-specific installation at the Vience Biennale, in collaboration with Swatch, also designing a watch strap. In the same year Tilson won the Charles Wollaston award for the most distinguished work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. He was recently commissioned to design a stained glass window for the Rosslyn Chapel in Edinburgh.
In 2023 a brand-new comprehensive monograph on the artist, written by art historian, writer and curator Marco Livingstone, was published by Lund Humphries.
Joe Tilson passed away aged 95 on 9 November 2023 in London, England.
-Courtesy Cristea Roberts
- Creator:Joe Tilson (1928, British)
- Creation Year:1971
- Dimensions:Height: 4.25 in (10.8 cm)Width: 8.6 in (21.85 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)
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- Condition:Very good vintage condition.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213776992
Joe Tilson
Joe Tilson (1928 – Present) Tilson was born on 24th August, 1928 in London, England. Tilson served in the Royal Air Force from 1946 – 49, after which he studied at St Martin’s School of Art (1949-1952) and the Royal College of Art (1952 – 1955). He won the Rome Prize for graduation, taking him to Italy from 1955 - 1957. From 1958 – 1963, Tilson taught at St Martin’s School of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and the School of Visual Arts, New York. During the 1960s, Tilson’s artistic career took off as he attracted attention for his unique wooden reliefs and constructions, prints and paintings in the emerging British Pop Art style. He held his first solo exhibition at the Marlborough Galley, London in 1962. In 1977, Tilson joined the Waddington Galleries, exhibited at the Alan Cristea Gallery and the Giò Marconi Galleries in Milan. At the Venice Biennale in 1964, Tilson’s work began to gain international popularity, earning him a retrospective at the Boyman’s Museum, Rotterdam later that year. Growing anti-consumerist feeling in the 1970s pushed Tilson to begin to incorporate a wider variety of materials in his work, including stone, straw and rope to create a timeless feel to his work. This body of work was called Alchera, and was a huge success. Tilson was made a Royal Academician in 2002 which was celebrated with a retrospective exhibition in the same year at the Royal Academy entitled Joe Tilson: Pop to Present. Tilson is collected internationally, including at the Arts Council England, London; the British Library, London; Christchurch College, Oxford; the Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest; the Tate, London; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; The Royal Collection; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York and the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven
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