Joe Zucker

Ponce de Leon’s Flagship

1984

Artist: Robert Kushner - American (1949- ) Title: Trellis Date: 1981 Media: Lithograph Dimensions: Diptych – Each sheet and image: 28 x 20 inches (56 x 20 inches total) Publisher: Barbara Gladstone...

This artwork titled "Spring 69" 1969 is an original color lithograph by American artist Nancy Genn, b. 1929. It is hand signed, titled and inscribed Artist Proof in pencil by the artist. The size is 23.75 x 34.65 inches. It is in excellent condition, it has very small marks in the back due to tape removal from previous framing, not visible from the front. About the artist: Nancy Genn is an American artist living and working in Berkeley, California known for works in a variety of media, including paintings, bronze sculpture, printmaking, and handmade paper rooted in the Japanese washi paper making tradition Her work explores geometric abstraction, non-objective form, and calligraphic mark making, and features light, landscape, water, and architecture motifs. She is influenced by her extensive travels, and Asian craft, aesthetics and spiritual traditions. Genn's first noted solo exhibition was in 1955 at Gump's Gallery in San Francisco. She received international recognition through her inclusion in French art critic Michel Tapié’s seminal text Morphologie Autre (1960), which cited her as one of the most important exponents of post-war informal art. Her abstract expressionist paintings of this period, continuing through the mid-1970s, featured all-over compositions of colorful layers of gestural brushwork and calligraphic mark making resembling asemic writing. In 1961, Genn began creating bronze sculptures using the lost-wax casting method. Influenced by noted sculptor and family friend Claire Falkenstein, who used open-formed structures in her work, Genn cast forms woven from long grape vine cuttings, and produced vessels, fountains, fire screens, a menorah, a lectern, and, notably, the Cowell Fountain (1966) at UC Santa Cruz. In 1963 her sculptural work was exhibited with Berkeley artists Peter Voulkos and Harold Paris in the influential exhibition Creative Casting curated by Paul J. Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York. Genn was one of the first American artists to express herself through handmade paper, first receiving wide recognition via exhibitions at Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, beginning in 1977, and in traveling exhibitions with Robert Rauschenberg and Sam Francis. In 1978-1979, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Japan Creative Arts Fellowship, she studied papermaking in Japan, visiting local paper craftspeople, working in Shikenjo studio in Saitama Prefecture,[5] and exhibiting her work in Tokyo. She also learned techniques from Donald Farnsworth...

Delicate and layered Collotype on heavy bond paper by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). The background is a lithograph, and the ribbons have been painted by hand over the top. ...

Frank Stella Plutusia, from Imaginary Places II (Axsom & Schnitzer, 246), 1996 52 color lithograph, screenprint, etching, aquatint, relief, mezzotint, engraving on white TGL handmade paper. Accompanied by the original documentation sheet on the back, hand signed by both Frank Stella and Kenneth Tyler Signed and dated in pencil, lower right; Tyler Graphics (TGL) blind stamp lower center. Workshop number inscribed in pencil verso FS94-3123, Edition 8/38. Frame included: elegantly floated and framed in a white wood frame with UV plexiglass Signed and dated in pencil, lower right; Tyler Graphics (TGL) blind stamp lower center. Workshop number inscribed in pencil verso FS94-3123; numbered 8/38 on the front (there were also 12 Artists Proofs) Accompanied by the original documentation sheet on the back, hand signed by both Frank Stella and Kenneth Tyler Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Axsom & Schnitzer, 246 Published by Tyler Graphics, Inc., Mt. Kisco New York Also accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee Measurements: Framed: 30.5 inches (vertical) x 30 inches (horizontal) x 2 inches (depth) Artwork alone: 26.5 inches diameter "Plutusia" is the second part of a series of works Stella did called "Imaginary Places". According to the catalogue raisonne, "the titles of these works came from The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi. Fashioned in the spirit of nineteenth-century traveler's guides, the book is a catalogue of fictional locations culled from world literature...