Richard Merkin

Marilyn Monroe Pop Art 1969 Color Screenprint Richard Merkin

1969

Deborah Kass (born 1952) Limited edition geometric abstract lithograph in colors on artist paper. Hand signed and dated in pencil to lower right. 1973. Edition: 102/120 to lower left. Dimensions: sight: 16-3/4" W x 21-1/4" H. Frame: 24-5/8" W x 28-7/8" H. Finding inspiration in pop culture, political realities, film, Yiddish, art historical styles, and prominent art world figures, Deborah Kass uses appropriation in her work to explore notions of identity, politics, and her own cultural interests. She received her BFA in painting at Carnegie Mellon University and studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Art Students League of New York. Deborah Kass (born 1952) is an American artist whose work explores the intersection of pop culture, art history, and the construction of self. Deborah Kass works in mixed media, and is most recognized for her paintings, prints, photography, sculptures and neon lighting installations. Kass's early work mimics and reworks signature styles of iconic male artists of the 20th century including Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Ed Ruscha. Kass's technique of appropriation is a critical commentary on the intersection of social power relations, identity politics, and the historically dominant position of male artists in the art world. Deborah Kass was born in 1952 in San Antonio, Texas. Her grandparents were from Belarus and Ukraine, first generation Jewish immigrants to New York. Kass's parents were from the Bronx and Queens, New York. Her father did two years in the U.S. Air Force on base in San Antonio until the family returned to the suburbs of Long Island, New York, where Kass grew up. Kass’s mother was a substitute teacher at the Rockville Centre public schools and her father was a dentist and amateur jazz musician. At age 14, Kass began taking drawing classes at The Art Students League in New York City which she funded with money she made babysitting. In the afternoons, she would go to theater on and off Broadway, often sneaking for the second act. During her high school years, she would take her time in the city to visit the Museum of Modern Art, where she would be exposed to the works of post-war artists like Frank Stella and Willem De Kooning. At age 17, Stella’s retrospective exhibition inspired Kass to become an artist as she observed and understood the logic in his progression of works and the motivation behind his creative decisions. Kass received her BFA in Painting at Carnegie Mellon University (the alma mater of artist Andy Warhol), and studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Here, she created her first work of appropriation, Ophelia’s Death After Delacroix, a six by eight foot rendition of a small sketch by the French Romantic artist, Eugène Delacroix. At the same time Neo-Expressionism was being helmed by white men in the late Reagan years, women were just beginning to create a stake in the game for critical works. “The Photo Girls...

This is for a Photo Silkscreen Serigraph it is Titled Andy Warhol :Pop Artist American. light creasing to paper outside of image John Brower worked in Chicago as a billboard designer for 12 years. He taught art at Alverno College of Milwaukee, Wright Junior College in Chicago, the University of Illinois, and the University of Kentucky. A Pop Artist. In John Browers' work two important things come forward: the design and the image. In the painting Indian...

"Detente" according to the artist: "These two silkscreen prints were made in 1987, edition of 5 prints. They were published by Kent Fine Art, NYC. Signed and numbered they sell for $2,500 each". these are unsigned and unnumbered rare printers proofs. Jerry Kearns is an American visual artist who was born in 1943. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Seven works: Exit Art The First World portfolio' sold at Phillips New York, Chelsea 'Editions' in 2010. There have been Several articles about Jerry Kearns, including 'Art in Review; Jerry Kearns' written by Holland Cotter for New York Times in 1996. influences include Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein. JERRY KEARNS SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 "Kentucky Derby Benefit Party and Art Benefit Auction" 2006 “Scope MIAMI” Jack The Pelican Presents Gallery, Miami FLA. “What a War” White Box Gallery, New York , NY. Curator Eleanor Heartney “Gallery Artists” Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA. “ WORD” Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX. Curator Brandon Krall “Hedonistic Imperative”, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX “The Studio Visit”, EXIT ART, New York 2004 “The Print Show”, EXIT ART, New York “25 Anniversary...

Poetry by J.D. REED Artwork by Richard Merkin screenprint in color, 1969, edition 22/50 Published by Bizzaro, Providence, R.I. of African American interest for collectors. Richard Marshall Merkin (1938-2009) was an American painter, illustrator and arts educator. Merkin's fascination with the 1920s and 1930s defined his art and shaped his identity as a professional dandy. Merkin traveled back in time as an artist, to the time of the interwar years, creating narrative scenes (ala Robert Crumb and Ben Katchor) in bright colors of jazz musicians, film stars, writers, and sports heroes. Merkin was as well known for his painting and illustration work as he was for his eccentric collecting habits and his outré fashion sense. he received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship in Painting. Merkin began teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1963 and remained there for 42 years, during which time he built his reputation in New York. Some notable students Merkin taught at RISD include Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of the band Talking Heads and Martin Mull. Merkin had been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair since 1986 and a regular contributor of illustrations to The New Yorker since 1988, as well as Harper's and The New York Times' Sunday Magazine. From 1988–1991, he wrote a monthly style column called "Merkin on Style" for Gentlemen's Quarterly. Merkin also designed several album covers for the Jazz record label Chiaroscuro Records for artists such as Mary Lou Williams, Ruby Braff, and Ellis Larkins. Merkin's friend, the writer Tom Wolfe wrote in an email to the New York Times upon Merkin's death: "He was the greatest of that breed, the Artist Dandy, since Sargent, Whistler and Salvador Dali, Like Dali, he had one of the few remaining Great Mustaches in the art world" Perpetually on the fly from his middle-class Brooklyn background, Merkin found the perfect escape in the mid ‘60s in George Frazier, a dapper Boston columnist who inspired the emerging New York painter’s overnight reinvention of himself. The elements of structure, stability and surprise he admired in this well-dressed dandy, a cool linen suit, a splash of suspender, a polka dot scarf and pearl-handled walking stick, soon surfaced in paintings peopled by impeccable underdogs of café society along with his personal pop heroes, William Burroughs, Bobby Short...

This signed Bert Stern vintage silkscreen and serigraph of an abstract Marilyn Monroe is from 1962. It is marked Avant Garde Collectors Proof X111 Red. ...

Artist: Gudmundur Erro, Icelandic (1932 - ) Title: Marilyn Monroe Year: 2006 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 120 Image Size: 27 x 34 inches Size: 33.5 x 42...

Jon Planas, Peruvian - Marilyn, Medium: Chromogenic Print under Resin on Masonite, signed and dedicated in marker on verso, Size: 23.75 x 23.75 in. (60.33 x 60.33 cm)

Artist: Andy Warhol Title: Marilyn Monroe I Love Your Kiss Forever Forever Date: 1964 Medium: Original Lithograph in colors on paper Edition: From the limited edition of 2000 From 1 ...