1980s Art
Period: 1980s
Color: Beige
Siouxsie Sioux - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Siouxsie Sioux - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Portrait of Siouxsie Sioux, New York, 1980 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the ...
Category
Modern 1980s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fidelma II
By Leon Kossoff
Located in London, GB
Leon Kossoff
Fidelma II
1984
Etching, Edition of 100
43.2 x 30.5 cms (17 x 12 ins) (paper size)
10 x 13 cms (3 15/16 x 5 1/8 ins) (plate size)
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Etching
Composition Originale Pour Fernand Mourlot (after) Joan Miro, 1983
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Joan Miro
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 12.5 x 11 in, 31.75 x 27.9 cm
Arches Paper - Perfect Condition A+
This lithograph was used as a frontispiece for a book recounting fifty years of lithographic printing at the Mourlot studio. It was published by Pierre Bordas et Fils and this particular image reproduces an Original drawing by Joan Miro, created and given to Fernand Mourlot...
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of a Boy - Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
The artist depicts a delicat...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Pencil
Waving the flag
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
’Waving the Flag’
By Kip Gresham
Medium - Screen Print
Edition - 21/24
Signed - Yes
Size - 515mm x 645mm
Date - 1986
Condition - Very good. 8 out of 10.
Col...
Category
Abstract 1980s Art
Materials
Screen
Study for the Human Body from a Drawing by Ingres
Located in New York, NY
Francis Bacon
Study for the Human Body from a Drawing by Ingres 1982-84, 1984
lithograph, ed. of 180
34 5/8 x 23 7/8 in. (88 x 60.6 cm)
Category
Abstract 1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph
“Wrongrong” publication [Based on “Un Cadaver” by André Breton, 1924]
By Jimmy DeSana
Located in New York, NY
“Wrongrong” publication [Based on “Un Cadaver” by André Breton, 1924]
1987
Newsprint publication
15 x 12.5 inches
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Paper
Wave Series/Tattooed Woman at Sunset Beach
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Wave Series/Tattooed Woman at Sunset Beach" is a unique watercolor by Masami Teraoka. The framed artwork measures 22 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 1 in.
“Mere depiction of social and cultural issues is not enough. My work has to create something that goes beyond simple perception. To make a strong statement, art needs timeless aesthetic qualities. These can take any subject matter to a higher level of experience. That is the essence of what I am pursuing.” – Masami Teraoka
Born in Onomichi in Hiroshima Prefecture, Teraoka studied at what is now Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. His works are inspired by Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcut prints. However, Teraoaka infuses the style and techniques of the traditional art with American Pop Art. The mass-produced nature of Japanese woodcut prints...
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Boy at the Beach - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Boy at the beach is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
The boy is represented with a ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Pencil
Untitled by Ken Price
By Ken Price
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Ken Price
silkscreen on Arches 88 paper
14.875 x 12.375”
1981
edition of 150
stamped by Ken Price, SOMA Fine Art Press and Arabesque Books
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Screen
Abstract Blue Black Color Forms
Located in Greenwich, CT
Ray Parker is a well recognized and highly collected Post War artist. This work done in oil but on paper is under glass and has a wonderful presence and vitality! A great addition t...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Art
Materials
Oil, Paper
Lettres
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving, 1989
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered V/XXVI
Printer : atelier Pasnic (Paris)
Moulin Laroque paper
LCD5205
Category
Abstract 1980s Art
Materials
Engraving
Rainbow Dancer
By Alice Asmar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Alice Asmar American (1929- )
Title: Rainbow Dancer
Year: 1980
Medium: Lithograph
Sight size: 29 x 14.75 inches.
Sheet size: 30 x 22 inches.
Signature: Signed lower right
Edition: 150 This one: 113/150
Condition: Very good
Unframed
This print by Alice Asmar (1929- ) is in very good never-framed condition with no flaws to note.
American contemporary artist of Lebanese and Greek descent, Alice Asmar's art is often inspired by her love of nature, combined with a deep respect for native American culture, her work evolved into Southwestern themes of Indian Ceremonial Dance-Dramas, Indian portraits and landscapes.
Her parents moved to Portland, Oregon when she was just a baby. She started drawing and painting at a very early age. Alice was considered a child prodigy; she was winning awards and recognition before the age of 10. The artwork of her early years was inspired by the splendors of nature, from the inscrutable pines and ancient sculptured rocks along the Oregon Coast to the mysterious ocean mists.
She Graduated magna cum laude from Lewis and Clark College in Portland and obtained her Master's of Fine Arts Degree at The University of Washington in Seattle. Soon after graduating she accepted a job as an engineering drafter at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. Her Assignment was clearing top secret drawings for air-to-ground missile. Alice worked for Boeing for less than a year. They offered her an engineering scholarship but she decided to go back to the art she loved doing from she was a child.
In 1954, Alice received her teaching certificate from the University of Washington after which she taught art at Lewis & Clark (1955 to 1958).
After studying and traveling throughout the Near East, France, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Turkey, The Greek Islands, Greece and Lebanon, Asmar set up studios in California, New Mexico and Oregon. Today, She works in an 800 - square-foot studio that she designed with four skylights and is located behind her home in Burbank, California.
A master of several media, Asmar is distinguished for her many techniques which include paintings in Oil, casein and Acrylic, drawing in ink, pencil and pastel, collage, tapestry, books, lithography, etching, Engraving on metal on plexiglas, portraits, murals and banners. Her hand engraving of innovative designs for dinner and household wares for Nambe Mills in Santa Fe is also recognized internationally.
Alice Asmar's works are in several hundred public and private collections in the United States and Europe, including the Smithsonian Institution, Franklin Mint, Portland Art Museum, Gene Autry Hotel in Palm Springs, The Public Art Museum of Gabrova, Bulgaria, Kaiser-Permanente, and the Dr. Nicholas Townell collection, Angus, Scotland.
A selected list of her EXHIBITIONS is as follows: - Seattle Art Museum. - Museum of Science & Industry, Los Angeles. - Circle Gallery Ltd, Houston - Abbot Hall Gallery, William Temple...
Category
Other Art Style 1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
LADY OF FASHION II
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, dated and inscribed "Study" by the artist. Hand embellished by the artist. A unique variation. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included....
Category
Pop Art 1980s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Soiree Chez Maxime, Lithograph by Francois Batet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Francois Batet
Title: Soiree Chez Maxine
Date: 1986
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 155/200
Image Size: 19 x 23 inches
Paper Size: 22 x 27 inches
Category
Art Deco 1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Nunzio Exhibition - Vintage Poster - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
Nunzio Vintage Poster is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1989.
Mixed colored offset poster realized in the occasion of the Exhibition by Galerie Di Meo Paris.
Good con...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Art
Materials
Offset
Alex Katz from 'A Tremor in the Morning' signed, limited edition woodcut print
By Alex Katz
Located in San Rafael, CA
Alex Katz (b. 1927)
Untitled, from the portfolio 'A Tremor in the Morning', 1986
Woodcut on wove paper
Edition 32/45
Signed and numbered in pencil lower left
Sheet: 20 x 19.75 inches...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Woodcut, Lithograph
"UNTITLED" FROM POP SHOP V
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper. Stamped with the artist's estate and signed, dated and numbered by the executor, Julia Gruen, in pencil on the reverse. Artwork size 13.5 x 16...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Art
Materials
Screen, Paper
Boy with Glasses - Original Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Boy with glasses is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981s. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
The artwork represents a yo...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Pencil
A. Einstein
Located in Kansas City, MO
Tilly Woodward
A. Einstein
Year: 1989
Size: 64.5x60in
Framed: 63x47.5x2in
Natrual wood frame, glass
Signed, titled and dated by hand
COA provided
Comes with original receipt
Ref.: 92...
Category
Modern 1980s Art
Materials
Paper
PHENOMENA CROSS WIND ALTERNATE
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed, titled and dated on verso by Paul Jenkins.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Acquired by our gallery from a private collector. Gallery i...
Category
Abstract 1980s Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Modernist Mourlot Lithograph Vintage Air France Poster Roger Bezombes
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage French Travel Poster, Air france
Roger Bezombes
(1913-1994) French
Bezombes was a painter, sculptor, medalist, and designer. He studied in Paris, at the École des Beaux-Arts, and was much influenced by his friendship with Maurice Denis. Heavily influenced by surrealism, He worked principally as a painter, adopting the saturated Fauvist colors of Henri Matisse in landscapes and figure studies often based on observation of “exotic” cultures, notably Mediterranean and North African. Constrained, because a very young orphan, to all kinds of professions which provide him with the material means to devote himself to painting - he participated in 1930 in the installation of the exhibition of the Bauhaus at the Grand Palais-, Roger Bezombes is student of the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. (Ecole des Beaux Artes) He was trained in the art of fresco by Paul Baudoüin, René Barotte nonetheless restores that the young man's preference goes to the practice of "truancy" which he uses to make copies at the Louvre Museum. It’s the time when Paul Gauguin’s paintings, Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse are revealed to him by Maurice Denis with whom he will remain close until his accidental death, painting him on his funeral bed on November 14, 1943. He executed surrealist tapestry designs for Aubusson and Gobelin tapestries, posters (winning the Grand Prix de l'Affiche Francaise in 1984), costumes and sets for ballets at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, reliefs and murals. In 1965 he took up medal-making, expressing in his numerous metallic works for the Paris Mint that obsession with found objects which is also evident in his large-scale sculpture and in his posters.
He designed posters for Air France and for the French national railways.
Roger Bezombes went to Africa for the first time in 1936 thanks to a travel grant and received the same year the second grand prize of Rome . In 1937 he traveled around Morocco where he became friends with Albert Camus. The year 1938 offered him both his first solo exhibition at the Charpentier gallery in Paris with paintings and gouaches on the theme of Morocco and the attribution of the national grand prize for the arts, earning him a great journey which , from Dakar to Algiers , takes it through Chad , Tamanrasset and Hoggar.
Roger Bezombes became a professor at the Julian Academy in 1950. For him, 1951 was the year of a trip to Greece and the year where he began his relationship with tapestry work.
Roger Bezombes visited Israel in 1953, Tunisia and Egypt in 1954. He was appointed official painter of the Navy in 1955. Pierre Mazars analyzes that “after a period where we notice the influence of Van Gogh and GeorgesBraque, particularly in his landscapes of Provence, he came to a more schematic writing, the colored spots and the thicknesses of material taking more of importance as the subject. He even performed composite works, half-watercolors, half-pasted papers, in which he incorporated pieces of newspapers”. He was elected titular to the Academy of Overseas Sciences in 1978. "The range of Bezombes' talent forms is remarkable,” writes Lynne Thornton, “ranging from paintings, murals, travel posters, tapestry cartons, book illustrations, monumental ceramic decorations, ballet and theater sets, totem sculptures, sculpture objects, jewelry and medallions”. He was part of the mid century mod School of Paris that included Leon Zack, Bernard Lorjou, Paul Augustin Aizpiri, Gabriel Godard, Michel Henry, Hans Erni, Bengt Lindstrom, Alfred Manessier, Andre Hambourg, Raymond Legueult and Jean Rigaud.
Select Solo Exhibitions:
1938: Galerie Charpentier, Paris
1950, '53, '55, '57: Galerie Andre Weil, Paris
1953:Wildenstein Gallery, London
1954: Institut Francais, Cologne
1956: Galerie Matarasso, Nice
1957: Horn Gallery, Luxembourg; Guilde de la Gravure, Paris
1958: Denys-Puech Museum, Rodez
1962: Musee de l'Athenee, Geneva;
Chateau Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer
1966: Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice
1967: Galerie Martel, Montreal
1968: Romanet-Vercel Gallery, New York;
Reattu Museum, Arles; Le Corbusier Center, Firminy
1969: Galerie Philippe...
Category
Modern 1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Les petits pecheurs (The little fishermen)
Located in Westmount, QC
Pauline Paquin, Canadian
b. 1952
Les petits pecheurs
Oil on masonite
16 x 12 in
Signed lower right, signed and titled verso
framed
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Boy - Original Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Boy is an original drawing pen realized by Anthony Roaland in early 1980s.
The artist want to define a well-balanced composition, through a harmonious style.
Good cond...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Pencil
Abstracted Bird of Paradise - Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold and dynamic abstracted bird of paradise by well known California artist Delmer Imhof (American, 1938-1997). Created with streaks of paint, an abstracted bird of paradise flower ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1980s Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Clemente Untitled B: surreal mythical landscape, voyage with ocean, Venus, snake
Located in New York, NY
A black and white, large-scale surreal mythical landscape of an ocean voyage, with a snake wrapped around a clock, a ship, Venus sculpture, greek ur...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Change of Color, Screenprint by Scott Jacobs
By Scott Jacobs
Located in Long Island City, NY
Screenprint by Escotete (Scott Jacobs) of a fashionable woman in red, sitting in the passenger seat of a convertible. This print is signed, numbered, and ...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Art
Materials
Screen
Beauty of Angels
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jules Olitski (1922-1977) is one of the most collected and accomplished artists associated with the color-field movement, if not 20th-century American abstraction.
Possibly one of ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Art
Materials
Aquatint
Childhood Landscape
Located in Lawrence, NY
Artist Angelo Ippolito (1922-2001) produced a body of oils on canvas, works on paper, and assemblages renowned for their lyrical color, light, and compositional rigor. His paintings ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Art
Materials
Oil
Senza Titolo 2
Located in London, GB
etching and aquatint
signed, numbered and dated
an edition of 90
100 x 100 cm
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Etching
La sortie de l’école
Located in Westmount, QC
Normand Hudon
1929-1997
LA SORTIE DE L’ÉCOLE
Lithograph
18 x 24 in
INSCRIPTIONS
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
framed
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Head of Father 1
By Leon Kossoff
Located in London, GB
Leon Kossoff
Head of Father 1
1982
Etching, Edition of 25
46.3 x 37.5 cms (18 1/4 x 14 3/4 ins) (paper size)
26.5 x 20.6 (10 7/16 x 8 1/8 ins) (plate size)
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Etching
The Running Man - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The Running Man is an original drawing in pencil realized by Anthony Roaland.
The artwork represents a fresh and beautiful nude male. Behind the landscape is depicted with simple an...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Pencil
Nude - Original Lithograph by Sergio Barletta - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original lithograph on paper realized by Sergio Barletta.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil. Numbered in pencil on the lower left, edition of 96/100 prints.
In go...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Portrait of a Boy - Original Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
The artist want to define a w...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Pencil
Boys Lying Down - Original Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Boys lying down is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
In the foreground the figures a...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Pencil
Boy with Glasses - Original Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Boy with glasses is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981s. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
The artwork represents a you...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Pencil
Boy Lying Down - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Boy lying down is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
I...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Pencil
The Cardinal - Drawing by Giovanni Boffa - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cardinal is an original artwork realized by Giovanni Boffa in 1980s.
Mixed colored drawing on paper.
Includes wooden frame: 55 x 2 x 44 cm
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Category
Modern 1980s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pastel
VISAGE DE FEMME SUR FOND RAYE Lithograph, Abstract Portrait, Round Face, Stripes
Located in Union City, NJ
Artist: Pablo Picasso, After, Spanish (1881 - 1973)
Title: VISAGE DE FEMME SUR FOND RAYE , #9-B
Year of Original Artwork: 1934
Medium: Lithograph on Coventry Paper, 100% acid free
Edition of 1000, unnumbered, estate approved printed signature
Print Size: 29 x 19 in. Image size - 23 x 14 in.
Year printed - 1979-1982
VISAGE DE FEMME SUR FOND RAYE is a limited edition lithograph re-created after an original painting from the estate Collection of Marina Picasso, Picasso's grand-daughter. Printed using hand drawn lithographic plates(not a photo reproduction or digital print) on archival heavy weight Coventry printmaking paper, 100% acid free. Edition was produced in accordance with the Picasso family under the supervision of Marcel Salinas, master chromist who worked closely with Pablo Picasso during his lifetime.
Bears the estate approved printed signature of Picasso on center lower margin. Lithograph is in excellent condition, never been framed or mounted. VISAGE DE FEMME SUR FOND RAYE portrays Picasso's version of a color abstract female portrait. VISAGE DE FEMME SUR FOND RAYE depicts a woman's round face...
Category
Abstract 1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Two Friends Walking on the Beach - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Two friends walking on the beach is an original drawing in pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Pencil
Large Format Polaroid Photograph Still Life Color Photo Dye Print Robert Fichter
By Robert Fichter
Located in Surfside, FL
Robert Fichter
Title: Jonah
Date: 1980
Original Polaroid Large Format Print (Photo-Internal dye diffusion transfer)
Location: Cambridge Massachusetts United States
Dimensions: Image: 27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (69.9 x 52.1 cm), Paper: 29 1/4 x 21 1/2 in. (74.3 x 54.6 cm)
This depicts a large mouth fish with a toy soldier and Asian art (tattoo art?) in an abstract assemblage collage.
From "Five Still Lifes"
New York: Paradox Editions, Ltd., 1980. 5 original Polaroid color prints. Each hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 37/40 in ink in the margin. Each approximately 24 x 20in (image size). Each is on original as there are no negatives in this process. The photographers included: Robert Cumming, Robert Fichter, Betty Hahn, Victor Schrager...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Color, Polaroid
Original Vintage London Underground Poster Art At The Royal Academy Spear
By Ruskin Spear
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Underground poster for the Art on the Underground series - Art At The Royal Academy nearest stations Green Park, Piccadilly Circus - featuring a pub landlady ...
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Paper
Vintage Robert Motherwell exhibition announcements (Set of 3)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Vintage Robert Motherwell Announcement cards:
Set of 3 announcement cards featuring his works "Color Intaglios", "Elegy fragment II" as well as work from his show "Robert Motherwel...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Art
Materials
Offset
“Untitled” from Pop Shop I
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, Image size 10.5 x 13.375 inches.. Sheet size 12 x 15 inches. Frame size approx 17.25 x 20.25 inches Littmann p. 83. Published by Martin Lawrence...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Lioness
By Kaiko Moti
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Kaiko Moti – Indian/French (1921-1989-)
Title: Lioness
Year: 1978
Medium: Color Aquatint on Arches paper
Sight size: 19.5 x 23.25 inches.
Sheet size: 25 x 30 inches
Signa...
Category
Impressionist 1980s Art
Materials
Aquatint, Paper
Original Keith Haring Record Art: set of 4 (1980s Keith Haring album cover art)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Vintage Keith Haring Record Cover Art: Set of 4: 1982 & 1987.
Haring illustrations appear on front and back of each of the 4 record covers, as well as 2 inserts (see last 2 images). ...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Art
Materials
Offset
Large Format Polaroid Photograph Still Life Color Photo Dye Print Betty Hahn Art
By Betty Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Betty Hahn
Title: Belladonna
Date: 1980
Original Polaroid Large Format Print (Photo-Internal dye diffusion transfer)
Location: Cambridge Massachusetts United States
Dimensions: Image: 27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (69.9 x 52.1 cm), Paper: 29 1/4 x 21 1/2 in. (74.3 x 54.6 cm)
This depicts a still life of a flower with an old botanical drawing print plate.
From "Five Still Lifes"
New York: Paradox Editions, Ltd., 1980. 5 original Polaroid color prints. Each hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 37/40 in ink in the margin. Each approximately 24 x 20in (image size). Each is on original as there are no negatives in this process. The photographers included: Robert Cumming, Robert Fichter, Betty Hahn, Victor Schrager and William Wegman. The photos were produced in the Polaroid Corporation’s 20×24 studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This is an internal Dye Diffusion print (large format) Polaroid print. These are exceedingly rare now. This format was used by many of the leading photographers of the second half of the 20th century, among them Peter Beard, Chuck Close, David Levinthal, Robert Frank, David Hockney, Lucas Samaras, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and, perhaps most significantly, Ansel Adams More recently Ellen Carey has created large abstract masterpieces using this format.
Betty Hahn (born 1940) is an American photographer known for working in alternative and early photographic processes. She completed both her BFA (1963) and MFA (1966) at Indiana University. Initially, Hahn worked in other two-dimensional art mediums before focusing on photography in graduate school. She is well-recognized due to her experimentation with experimental photographic methods which incorporate different forms of media. By transcending traditional concepts of photography, Hahn challenges the viewer not only to assess the content of the image, but also to contemplate the photographic object itself.
Betty Hahn was born on October 11, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois where she also grew up. At the age of ten, Hahn was given her first camera by an aunt. Hahn later on went to graduate from Scecina Memorial Catholic High School. Soon after, she enrolled at Indiana University with a full scholarship where she furthered her studies in Fine Arts, receiving both her BFA (1963) and her MFA (1966). Throughout her undergraduate years, she concentrated in drawing and painting; however, as she entered graduate study, she worked in photography. During this important developmental period, Hahn studied under one of the most well-known photography teachers of the time, Henry Holmes Smith, who encouraged Hahn's work in alternative processes. Once she graduated, Hahn moved to Rochester where she taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology until 1975. Hahn then relocated to Albuquerque where she was professor at University of New Mexico until her retirement in 1997.
Hahn is best known for her explorations of alternative processes in photography, using both older methods of darkroom developing such as gum-bichromate and cyanotypes, with other art mediums, including hand-painting and even embroidery. She is noted as one of the first photographers to successfully integrate such a variety of art mediums. Hahn encourages the viewer to think more deeply through not only the use of different physical processes in her artwork, but also through the multiplicity of meanings in her photographs. In most of her work, Hahn integrates humor and irony as she explores the meanings generated by formal combinations. Some of her prints include the sprocket holes of the 35mm negative, which allude to its 35mm film origins: but by hand coloring with bright paints, she draws attention to the mixture of craft with industrial mediums. Once she started experimenting with the gum-bichromate process, Hahn started stitching into her photographs. Printing onto canvas and other fabrics allowed her to use thread to highlight certain aspects of the photograph. In combining her photographs with conventional practices, Hahn successfully intertwines formal and conceptual aspects. Not only does she speak to the mundane tasks of everyday life, but also about routine and normativity. In highlighting the ordinary in her work, Hahn elevates and revives that which has been lost in the practice of daily life. Embroidery references femininity, as Hahn underlines the feminist issue of the anonymity of women's handicraft. Her embroidery often emphasized flowers with its three-dimensionality, furthering the idea of femininity; she later on pursued this as a symbol and incorporated it in several of her other series.
In her work, Hahn delivers a powerful feminist message in regards to women and embroidery. It is quite evident through time that women's labor is needlework, and that their labor is frequently undervalued as craft both when dissimilar and alike to men's work. In a time period where men overshadowed women in the traditional art, such as painting and sculpture, women oftentimes reverted to other mediums like textiles. It has been suggested that women's work, especially in embroidery, is of little value in the art field since it is considered a craft. Since "arts and crafts" are more often than not paired together, it is obvious they are in the same category; however, there is a clear distinction. For 300 years, women have been taught needlework through practice and tradition, and in inadvertently, promoted obedience and household effeminate behavior. As a result, instead of regarding stitching as an art, many viewed it as a thoughtless skill, lacking originality. On the contrary, however, it is far more than evident that the hand of woman is more than a mindless and conforming thing, it is one of sensitivity, thought, patience, perseverance, and strength. By incorporating embroidery and stitching, Betty Hahn pushes the audience to acknowledge the work of women not as craft or tradition, but as meticulous, creative and unique.
Exhibitions
The Division of Photographic History at the Smithsonian Institution exhibited Hahn's work in a group exhibit in the 1960s as a part of a developing series of displaying the works of women photographers. Afterwards her work was featured in multiple thematic exhibitions at the Smithsonian.
Hahn's first solo show exhibiting her work was in 1973 at the Witkin Gallery in New York City. Thereafter, she received several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974, 1978, and 1983 to continue her work in explorative photography.
Hahn's art has been exhibited throughout the country and worldwide featured in museums highlighting historical processes in Baltimore, Maryland (1972) and nature photography exhibitions in Osaka, Japan (1990). Her work has been displayed at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and Art History (2017), Phoenix Art Museum (2015), and the George Eastman House (2012, 2016). Hahn's work is held in private collectors, galleries, and in permanent museum collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Center for Creative Photography and the Museum of Modern Art.
Exhibitions
1996 – George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and film, Rochester, New York
1997 – A History of Women Photographers, Akron Art Museum
1997 – Eye of the Beholder, Photographs of the Avon Collection, International Center of Photography, Midtown, New York City
1998 – Passing Shots: A Travel Series, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1998 – The City Series, Taos, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
1999 – Photography Or Maybe Not, a Betty Hahn traveling retrospective, Mikhailovsky Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
2000 – 20/20 Twentieth Century Photographic Acquisitions by 20 leading patrons, Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts
2000 – Photography Or Maybe Not, a Betty Hahn traveling retrospective, Santa Fe de Granada, Spain
2001 – In the Eyes of the Beholder: Ten Photographers View Albuquerque, The University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque, NM
2002 – Sun Works Contemporary Alternative Photography, The Art Institute of Boston
2002 – Flowers from the Permanent Collection, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2004 – 30th Anniversary Permanent Collection Exhibition, New Mexico State, University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico
2005 – New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico
2005 – Ace in the Hole, the legacy of Peter Walch, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2006 – The collectible moment, Norton Simon museum, Pasadena, California
2006 – The Social Lens, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia
2007 – Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography, A Traveling
2007 – Exhibition, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
2008 – Flower Power: a Subversive Botanical, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2008 – Bernalillo County Arts Board Gallery, One Civic Plaza NW, Albuquerque, NM
2008 – Giving Shelter 516 Arts Albuquerque, NM (A Sister Exhibition to the Cradle Project)
2008 – Betty Hahn, Joyce Neimanas, and Judith Golden, Harwood Art Center Albuquerque, NM
2009 – Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe, Palace of the Governors, The New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe,
2009 – Altered Land: Photography in the 1970s, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
2010 – Sole Mates Cowboy Boots & Art, New Mexico Museum of Art
2010 – Rock Scissors Paper, Anderson Contemporary Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2010 – Recollection 2010, Works from the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, The Central Library, Vida Ellison Gallery,
2012 – 60 From the 60's (an exhibit of influential photos from the 1960s) George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
2012 – Albuquerque Now-Fall and Albuquerque Now-Winter, The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History,
2013 – It's About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico, The New Mexico Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM
2014 – Alternative Lineage – Honoring Betty Hahn; 5 Decades of Mentoring
2014 – Alternative Photographic Processes, Center for Photographic Art Carmel, California
2014 – Alternative Lineage, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
2014 – Transformational Imagemaking, Handmade Photography Since 1960
2014 – An Exhibition Curated by Robert Hirsch, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2014 – Museum Project, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2014 – American Heritage Center and Art Museum, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming
2014 – Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ruidoso, New Mexico
2015 - One-Of-A-Kind, unique photographic objects from the Center of Creative Photography, University of Arizona,
2015 – Unconfined – Empowering Women Through Art, African American Performing Arts Center, New Mexico Expo,
2015 – Visualizing Albuquerque: Art of Central New Mexico, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2015 – Healing ... For the Time Being, A mixed media exhibition in conjunction with On the Map: Albuquerque Art and Design, Jonathan Abrams MD
2015 – The AIPAD Photography Show, Represented by Joseph Bellows Gallery, New York, New York
2016 – Transformational Imagemaking, traveling exhibition March-16- April 16; Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa.
2016 – Fall-Rochester Institute of Technology, Bevier Gallery, Rochester, NY
2016 – 60 from the 60's: Selections from the George Eastman Museum, At the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York
(The featured artists included were Harry Callahan, Benedict J. Fernandez, Hollis Frampton...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Color, Polaroid
Prism, Large Colorful Abstract Lithograph by Paul Jenkins
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul Jenkins, American (1923 - 2012)
Title: Untitled
Year: 1983
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 75
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Visiting Brownsville) [Mike Tyson visits Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1987]
By Lori Grinker
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Visiting Brownsville)
Mike Tyson visits his old neighborhood, Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1987
Signed and numbered, verso
Archival pigment print
11 x 17 inches
(Edition of 15...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fountain
By James Nares
Located in New York, NY
James Nares
Fountain, 1987
Monotype on paper
Hand signed and dated lower front
Unique
Frame included
Measurements:
Framed 41.5 by 34 inches
Work 30.25 by 22.25 inches
Dazzling Jame...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Monotype
Pierpont Morgan Library
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
color lithograph
edition of 300
Category
Pop Art 1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph
PORTRAIT OF MARIE-THERESE WALTER
Located in Aventura, FL
Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of t...
Category
Cubist 1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother (The Fifth Commandment)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Kushner
Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother (The Fifth Commandment), 1987
6 Color Lithograph on Dieu Donne handmade paper
24 × 18 inches
Pencil signed and numbered 6/84 in graphite on the front
Unframed with deckled edges
This five color lithograph on Dieu Donne hand made paper with deckled edges is pencil signed, dated and numbered from the limited edition of 84. This 1980s Robert Kushner print was created as part of the 1987 portfolio "The Ten Commandments", in which ten top Jewish American artists were each invited to choose an Old Testament commandment to interpret in contemporary lithographic form. The "Chosen" artists were, in order of Commandment: Kenny Scharf, Joseph Nechvatal...
Category
Realist 1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fidelma 3
By Leon Kossoff
Located in London, GB
Leon Kossoff
Fidelma 3
1984
Etching, Edition of 100
43.2 x 30.5 cms (17 x 12 ins) (paper size)
10.4 x 6.2 (4 1/16 x 2.7/16 ins) (plate size)
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Etching
The Table by the Window
By Leon Kossoff
Located in London, GB
Leon Kossoff
The Table by the Window
1982
Etching, Edition of 25
52.5 x 65.4 cms (20 11/16 x 25 3/4 ins) (paper size)
27.8 x 38 cms (10 15/16 x 14 15/16 ins) (plate size)
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Etching
"Unremembered Dream" Dragon Fly and Barbed Wire - Intaglio Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful and evocative abstracted dry point etching of dragon fly and barbed wire titled "Rebirth" by Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947). Presented in new custom cut mat. Unframed. Image size: 9"H x 15"W
Titled "Unremembered Dream" along the bottom edge.
Signed and dated "T. Uchida '89" in the lower right corner.
Presented in a new custom-cut mat with foam core backing.
Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947) was born in Tsuyama City in the Okayama prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, in 1970, and went on to become the artist-in-residence at the KALA Institute of Prints in Berkeley, CA, in 1989. He then moved to Australia, where he studied under Prof. Jorg Schmeisser...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
Elegy, September 11, 2001
Located in New York, NY
Jules Olitski
Elegy, September 11, 2001, 2002
Silkscreen on wove paper
Edition 103/108
Signed, titled and numbered in graphite pencil 103/108 on the front...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Art
Materials
Screen