By Bob Stanley
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is for just the one print in the photo here. there are three states of the same image image each with Progressively increasing detail and color. the edition size is 175. Hand signed, numbered and dated. on hand made French Arches paper.
Bob (Robert) Stanley (1932-1997) was a painter, photographer and printmaker whose early work was figurative painting about contemporary American life. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he based his paintings on photographs, which he manipulated from black and white or silkscreen colored shapes. In the early 1960's, he began to base his paintings on images clipped from newspapers and magazines, following the example of Pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, who would become his brother-in-law. Enlarged and often simplified to two vibrant saturated colors Stanley's images could be reduced to the abstract or be powerfully explicit. His preferred subjects, including rock stars, athletes and pornography, always seemed to grate against the pretenses of high art. Similar in bold use of color to Malcolm Morley. In the late 1960's Mr. Stanley started using his own photographs, basing paintings on images of tree branches or the ground, and also using pictures of life-drawing models at the School of Visual Arts.
EDUCATION
The Brooklyn Museum of Art School, Brooklyn, NY
Columbia University, New York, NY
The High Museum Art School, Atlanta, GA
Columbia University, New York, NY
Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA B.A. 1953
Max Beckmann Scholarship Award for Painting and Sculpture,
The Brooklyn Museum of Art School, Brooklyn, NY
TEACHING
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Instructor: Painting and Drawing
The New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA, Visiting Artist
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Visiting Artist
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Instructor: Painting and Drawing
SELECT INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY, Celebrating the Erotic Work of Pop-Artist Bob Stanley
The Mayor Gallery, London, England, “Bob Stanley – Works from the Sixties”
Beatrice Conde Gallery, New York, NY, Late Paintings
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY, Paintings: 1963-1967
Gallerie Georges Lavrov, (Paris), Die International Kunstmesse, Art Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Georges Lavrov, Paris, France, Catalog text by Richard Artschwager
The Paul Bianchini Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Ricke, Kassel, Germany
Bianchini-Birillo Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY, Exquisite Corpe – Cadavre Exquis
Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, “Up Close and Personal: A Collection of Minimalist and Figurative Drawings”
Steven Vail Gallery, “Paintings and Drawings” 2 person exhibition with Jan Frank...
Category
1970s Pop Art Animal Prints
MaterialsLithograph, Screen