Kate Delos
Vintage Abstract -- Lo Deseo, "I wish It"
1983

Name: Vintage Abstract -- Lo Deseo, "I wish It"
Brand: Kate Delos
Price: 1720 USD
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About the Item

Exceptional and substantial monotype on paper titled "Lo Deseo" (I wish it) by Bay area artist Kate Delos (Mexican/American, b-1945). One of One, signed on bottom "Lo Deseo 1983 Delos" and "Kate Delos 1983 Monotype on BLK Grey". Also has the list of colors used on the piece on verso. Image 22"W x 32"H. Framed: Maple; 42"H x 32W" x 1.75"D Kate Delos is a Bay area painter, print maker and artistic collaborator. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University and currently teaches painting, drawing and printmaking at Solano Community College, where she was named a distinguished faculty member in 2000. The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. "Monotype is a print medium whose simple concept, spontaneous process, and elegant result attract both artists and collectors. The earliest monotypes date from the 1640s, when Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione printed compositions he drew into ink spread on un-incised metal plates. Since then, artists have periodically rediscovered the technique for themselves. Degas's prolific experiments with monotype at the end of the nineteenth century led to some of the most beautiful examples ever. Indeed, their exhibition in 1968 at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a major factor in the recent surge of interest in the medium by artists and art historians. This book presents the first historical survey of monotypes. Curators from the departments of prints, drawings, and photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, discuss and illustrate 106 unique prints by forty-two artists ranging from Rembrandt and Castiglione, Matisse and Picasso, Prendergast and Chase, to such diverse contemporary figures as Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Robert Motherwell, and Richard Diebenkorn. An essay by art historian Eugenia Parry Janis explains how the mid-nineteenth-century etching revival fostered a dramatic use of creatively inked etching plates and thus a renewed interest in monotypes. Finally, artist Michael Mazur describes the methods of monotyping as well as the exhilarations and frustrations it can produce for the printmaker. Working with special paper, inks and paints, multiple plates, and images altered in sequence, artists have expanded a personal and experimental medium into a brilliant means of exploring their ideas." From: The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century.The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1980). Kate Delos Exhibited: The Bay Area Exhibition 1986 Show Included in; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History Published Books: Simulacra. Delos/Rossenwasser, Monotypes & Poetry, Kelsey St. Press, 1986. aviary. Limestone Press, 1988. ISLE. Delos/Rosenwater, Kelsey St. Press, 1992. Collections: The Oakland Museum Mills College Art Gallery and Library Triton Museum of Art Berkeley Art Museum San Francisco Museum of Modern Art De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University New York Public Library – Rare and Unusual Books Stanford University Museum and Library St. Louis Museum of Art Orange County Museum University of Washington, Souza Library Achenbach Collection of Graphic Art – Legion of Honor Brown University Claremont College Library University of San Francisco Rare Books Collection Columbia University Library Scripps College National Museum of Women Artists

Creator:

Kate Delos (1945, American, Mexican)

Creation Year:

1983

Dimensions:

Height: 42 in (106.68 cm)Width: 32 in (81.28 cm)Depth: 1.75 in (4.45 cm)

Medium:

Paper,Acrylic

Movement & Style:

Abstract Expressionist

Period:

1980-1989