Ross Wetzel

'E Pluribus Unum', Modernist Silk Screen, Walt Disney, San Miguel de Allende

Circa 1975

Signed lower right outside of block, 'Hiroyuki Tajima' (Japanese, 1911-1984) and dated 1973 with limitation and number, '50-4', lower center and titled lower left, 'The Rain'. Paper dimensions: 19.75 x 12.5 inches An elegant abstract comprising overlapping forms in deep ruby, coral and jade. Engraver and printmaker, Hiroyuki Tajima was born in Tokyo in 1911 and graduated from Nihon University in 1932. In 1934, he graduated from the Tokyo School of Arts with a specialization in western-style painting. Tajima later studied fabric dyeing under Hirokawa Matsugoro (1889-1952) and woodblock printing with the Sosaku-Hanga artist, Nagase Yoshiro (1891-1978), a founder of the Japan Print Association (Hanga Kyokai). In 1946, inspired by Dada and Surrealism, Tajima joined Bijutsu Bunka Kyokai, a group dedicated to exploring and reviving the abstract and surrealist painting ideals that had been suppressed during WWII. Tajima exhibited widely and with success, including with Tokyo's Modern Art Association ( Prix du Nouveau Venu, 1962), the Japanese Engraving Association, the Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition in Tokyo (1962), the Northwest International Print Exhibition (1962-1964) and the Tokyo International Print Biennale (1964). His work is held in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Portland Art Museum (Oregon), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (British Columbia), the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), the Carnegie Museum of Art, the National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO) and the British Museum in London. In describing Tajima's work, Frances Blakemore...

Signed lower right, 'D. Hansen' for Diana Hansen (American, born 1942) and dated February, 1977; titled, lower left, 'Metamorfosi', with number and limita...

Signed lower right, 'Miklos Pogany' and dated '1987'; titled lower left, 'Flight to Byzanthium'. Additionally signed verso, dated, titled and inscribed 'Monotype printed at Don Farnsworth's Magnolia Editions. Oil, litho ink on paper'. Sheet dimensions: 31.25 x 42.5 Inches. Hungarian-born Maine resident, Miklos Pogany, is a prolific artist with an impressive exhibition history and work in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A master of multiple media, Pogany creates vivid works based on nature and the built environment, exploring and pushing the parameters of each medium. The artist describes his motivation as follows: "I react to wonder, desires, conflicts, meanings, memories, revenge, sexuality, love and death. I gather all these fragments and make some personal sense of it all." Education: 1964 - BA, St. Procopius College, IL 1965 - MA, University of Chicago, IL 1972 - Ph.D. University of Chicago, IL Museum Collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France New York Public Library Print Collection, New York, NY Boston Public Library Print Collection, Boston, MA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Harvey Littleton, Greenville, NC Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University, NJ Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT Selected Awards: The Connecticut Vision, Mattatuck Museum Prize 1990 Prints International, Silvermine Galleries, CT Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Bellagio, Italy International Graphic Arts Foundation, Sigma Gallery, New York Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Connecticut Commission for the Arts SECA Award for Painting, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Selected Exhibitions: 2019 Danese Corey, New York, NY 2012 Fort Point Arts Community, Boston, MA 2008 Harvard University Owl Club, Cambridge, MA 2004 Kantar Fine Arts, Newtonville, MA 1998 J. Leighton Gallery...

Signed lower right, 'Bolin' for Gustav Bolin (Swedish, 1920-1999) and dated 1972; blind stamp lower left 'Editions du Damier - Paris' and inscribed lower left with number and limitat...

Chris Keegan Red Drift Limited Edition Silkscreen Print Edition of 50 Size: H 40cm x W 40cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed (Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a...

This is a Five colour screen print Including a metallic Silver layer. This print is then finished off by drawing over the print with multi-coloured paint including Gold, Yellow and G...

Abstract Hebrew Prints on heavy mould made paper from small edition of 15. there is a facing page of text in Hungarian folded over. Hard edged geometric abstract prints in color base...

Abstract Hebrew Prints on heavy mould made paper from small edition of 15. there is a facing page of text in Hungarian folded over. Hard edged geometric abstract prints in color base...