Yuval Mahler

Large Metal Sculpture Wall Hanging 3D Painting New York City Whimsical Pop Art

c.2000

Painted wood wall hanging sculpture "Red, White and Blue," (and gold) 2008 Stamped signed with initials, date and edition 2/5 Oded Halahmy, Abstract Modernist artist, was born in Iraq in the old city of Baghdad in 1938, the artist came from a family of Orthodox Jews with deep roots in ancient Babylonian culture. His father, Salech Haskel Chebbazah, was a prosperous goldsmith in Baghdad and a Jewish member of the Communist Party when Jews comprised more than a quarter of the population of Baghdad. He refers to his home as the “land of wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates.”, Oded moved with his family to Israel in the 1950s, was educated at St. Martin's School of Art in London which was then a leading center for sculpture, led by Anthony Caro and Philip King and having links to Henry Moore. He taught sculpture are in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, as well as many other public and private collections worldwide. He currently lives in New York City and Old Jaffa, Israel. Like countless New Yorkers who arrived from distant lands, Oded Halahmy has a rich personal history of exile, migration and travels. Although New York has been his home for over 45 years, memories of Iraq left an indelible imprint on his life and work. Known for his dynamic yet often playful figurative pop art style sculptures in wood and bronze, he fills his work with images — albeit abstracted from reality — that evoke the landscape, architecture and rich colors of the Middle East. Palm trees, doves, pomegranates, temples and age-old symbols abound along with deep reds, amber, sky blue and the familiar greenish-blue hues of aged bronze. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Dates-Pomegranates-Olive Oil: Chanukah Lamps, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY District of Columbia Jewish Community Center Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, Washington, D.C. Homeward: Baghdad - Jerusalem - New York, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Homelands: Baghdad-Jerusalem-New York, A Retrospective, The Ann Loeb Gallery, Washington, Homelands: Baghdad-Jerusalem-New York, A Retrospective, Yeshiva University Museum, NY The Common Ground; The Sculpture Of Oded Halahmy, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Herr-Chambliss Fine Arts, Hot Springs, AR Artists Studio, Old Jaffa, Israel Byer Museum of Art, Evanston, IL The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, Cranford, NJ Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY New England Center for Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, CT Hebrew Union College, New York, NY Bicentennial Tribute, United States Federal Plaza, New York, NY Horace Richter Galleries, Jaffa, Israel, 1976 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY America-Israel Culture House, New York, NY Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY Gallery Moos, Toronto, Canada Old Jaffa Gallery, Jaffa, Israel Pollack Gallery, Toronto, Canada SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 Iraqi Art...

Seymour Chwast, B. 1931, American, 'Girl on a Buick', Painted Sheet Metal. A label on the reverse reads: "Seymour Chwast, 'Girl on a Buick', Metal Cut-Out, $2,000" Provenance: Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT Seymour Chwast (born August 18, 1931) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer. Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. Often referred to as "the left-handed designer," Chwast's unique graphic design melded social commentary and a distinctive style of illustration. Today, he continues to work and is principal at The Pushpin Group, Inc. in New York City. In 1979, he was hired by McDonald's to design on the first box for their Happy Meals. He is the font designer of Chwast Buffalo, Fofucha, Loose Caboose NF, and Weedy Beasties NF. He is a member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI). In the pantheon of American (nay, world) illustration, he stands, albeit slightly shorter and a little more rumpled, beside N.C. Wyeth, J. C. Leyendecker, and Normal Rockwell...

Acrylic on canvas. Abstract and figurative depending on how close or far you are from the piece. The word LOVE is the focus. Small amount of paint create figures. See little sha...

James C. Litz is a self-taught artist who has a "primitive-naive" style of oil and acrylic paintings that features colorful and humorous characters and scenes. His paintings have a very child-like quality to them and you can see the artist's active imagination at work transforming everyday life into art. In 1994, the fine arts magazine Sunstorm, described him as having a "natural wit and style". Permanent displays: The National and International Vietnam Veterans War Art Museum, Chicago, IL; the American Folk Art Museum, NYC; the President Bush Library, Houston, TX; Museé D'Art Naïf de l'lle De France; the International Folk Art Museum, La Jolla, CA; and the James Fennimore Coopers Museum, Cooperstown, NY. Private Collections: Jackie Gleason (deceased); Roy Rogers (deceased); the Flamenco guitarist Carlos Montoya (deceased); opera singer Patrice Munsel, cellist Lynn Harrell, and Bill Cosby.