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circa 1950s
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Leonard Edmondson (1916-2002) original color aquatint.
Titled in pencil lower centre "Blackbird".
Edition size in pencil lower left: 20/50.
Pencil Signed Lower right: Edmondson,
circa 1950s. Image measures: 11 ½" H x 9 3/4" W.
Unframed. Archivally matted.
Leonard Edmondson was an abstract Expressionist painter and printmaker of colored etchings as well as an art educator. He spent his career in California where he served as President of the California Watercolor Society and of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society. He was also a member of the San Francisco Art Association and the Los Angeles Art Association.
Leonard Edmondson was born in Sacramento, California and studied at the University of California, Berkeley where he earned a Master's Degree in 1942. By 1947, he was on the faculty at Pasadena City College and began exhibiting. Major museums including the Metropolitan, Brooklyn and Museum of Modern Art purchased his work.
Edmondson was an influential teacher, especially of printmaking, which he taught at Otis Art Institute and the California State Unviersity in Los Angeles as well as at Pasadena City College.
- Creator:Leonard Edmondson (1916 - 2002, American)
- Creation Year:circa 1950s
- Dimensions:Height: 11.5 in (29.21 cm)Width: 9.75 in (24.77 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Phoenix, AZ
- Reference Number:Seller: P77711stDibs: LU2749214652092
Leonard Edmondson
Leonard Edmondson began his career at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a Master of Arts degree. After service in the U.S. Army Military Intelligence, during World War II, Edmondson embarked on a distinguished teaching career that spanned five decades and culminated in his position as Chair of the art department at California State University Los Angeles. A renowned printmaker whose work was informed by the experimental printmaking techniques of Stanley William Hayter, Edmondson also worked in a range of other media including oil paint, watercolor and collage. By 1950, Edmondson’s work had evolved from figurative representation into abstraction, in what he cited as a journey of inspiration, discovery and meaning. His distinctive style is inspired by the abstract surrealism of Paul Klee (which he had viewed in Europe during World War II) and the intuitive expressionism espoused by Hans Hofmann. Edmondson's vernacular invokes in his own words ‘almost remembered' forms, feelings and spaces, “This vocabulary manifests itself in a dynamic structure where color responds to the size and position of shapes and reinforces the intent of the composition. My painting is not art of rebellion but one of discovery and sharing.”
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