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John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain at Leo Castelli Gallery, vintage 1970s offset lithograph poster

1976

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JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Leo Castelli Invitation, 1976 Offset Lithograph invitation 21 1/2 × 16 inches Unframed This rare vintage offset lithograph invitation published on the occasion of an important exhibition of works in the mid Seventies by John Chamberlain at the legendary Leo Castelli Gallery. In 2012, there was major retrospective exhibition of Chamberlain's work at the Guggenheim Museum. Chamberlain's estate is represented by Gagosian Gallery. Leo Castelli was the longtime dealer of Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, but perhaps is best known for "discovering" Jasper Johns. An uncommon and collectible piece of art historical ephemera. John Chamberlain Biography Best known for his sculptures that brought the Abstract Expressionist style into three-dimensional forms, John Chamberlain was born on April 16, 1927 in Rochester, Indiana and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. After serving in the Navy from 1943 to 1946, Chamberlain attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1951 to 1952. During this time he began to make flat, welded sculpture influenced by the work of David Smith. Chamberlain taught and studied sculpture at Black Mountain College, near Asheville, North Carolina from 1955 to 1956. In 1966, Chamberlain received his first of two John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships, intended for men and women who have “already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts,” as stated by the foundation. Building on his earlier welded sculpture, in 1957 Chamberlain began incorporating scrap metal from cars into his work. From 1959 onward, he concentrated on sculpture built entirely of crushed automobile parts. Chamberlain’s first major solo exhibition was held in 1960 at Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. In the early 1960s, Chamberlain’s work was widely acclaimed and his sculpture was included in “The Art of Assemblage” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1961. Chamberlain showed frequently at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and in 1964, was exhibited at the Venice Biennale. From 1963 to 1965, Chamberlain experimented with other mediums and created geometric paintings with sprayed automobile paint. In 1966, he began a series of sculptures made of rolled, folded, and tied urethane foam. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, held a retrospective of his work in 1971, followed by a retrospective held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1986; the museum co-published, “John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture 1954-1985”, authored by Julie Sylvester. Chamberlain’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Chinati Foundation, Marfa; the Tate Modern, London; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. John Chamberlain passed away on December 21, 2011 in New York City. -Courtesy Mnuchin
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