Louisa Chase
Woods
1985

Name: Woods
Brand: Louisa Chase
Price: 750 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Woods Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1985 Signed, titled & numbered in pencil Edition: 15 (12/15) Printed on BFK RIVES paper Provenance: GE Art Program, (label included), see photo Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 17 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches Sheet size" 22 7/8 x 25 1/4 inches Chase was born in 1951 in Panama City, Panama. She grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She earned her BFA in printmaking from Syracuse University in 1973 and her MFA in fine art from Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut in 1975. In the year of her graduation she had her first New York exhibition, at the alternative gallery Artists Space. She taught painting at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1975–1979, and at the School of Visual Arts from 1980-1982. She is a National Endowment for the Arts grantee. She exhibited at the 1984 Venice Biennale. Her solo exhibitions include: Brooke Alexander Gallery (1989) The Texas Gallery in Houston (1987); Gallery Inge Baker in Cologne, Germany (1983) and others. She had solo exhibitions at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin’s Madison Art Center, and Baltimore’s Contemporary Museum. Her work was featured in group exhibitions at the New Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Rhode Island School of Design’s Museum of Art, SFMoMA, LACMA and the Brooklyn Museum. Her work is in the collections of: the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Elvehjem Museum of Art, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Chase lived in Sag Harbor, New York. She died on May 8, 2016 in East Hampton, New York, at the age of 65.

Creator:

Louisa Chase (1951 - 2016, American)

Creation Year:

1985

Dimensions:

Height: 17.63 in (44.79 cm)Width: 19.75 in (50.17 cm)

Medium:

Etching

Movement & Style:

Abstract

Period:

1980-1989