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ABSTRACT STYLE

Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.

Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.

Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.

Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.

Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.

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Style: Abstract
Sam Gilliam, Buoy Landscape IV Mixed media signed/n Abstract Expressionist print
Located in New York, NY
Sam Gilliam Buoy Landscape IV, 1982 Color relief print, etching, screenprint, drypoint, aquatint and roulette all from deeply etched copper plates, on handmade wove paper 31 1/2 × 24 inches Hand signed and numbered 3/25 in graphite pencil Hand-signed by artist, Signed by artist, numbered, and dated in pencil and blind-stamped by printer-publisher on lower right, titled in pencil on lower left, recto Unframed with elegant deckled edges Rare vintage intaglio and relief, all from deeply etched copper plates. Other works from this series are in the permanent collections of major museums & institutions like the Smithsonian, so they are quite scarce on the open market. Steven M. Andersen (Printer) Philip Barber (Printer) Hang Nguyen (Printer) Stephanie Nowack (Printer) Michael Reid (Printer) Daniel Rounds (Printer) Vermillion Editions Limited (Publisher) Sam Gilliam Biography: Sam Gilliam was one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting. A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. Suspending stretcherless lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings of exhibition spaces, Gilliam transformed his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed. As an artist in the nation’s capital at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, this was not merely an aesthetic proposition; it was a way of defining art’s role in a society undergoing dramatic change. Gilliam pursued a pioneering course in which experimentation was the only constant. Inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, his lyrical abstractions took on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials. In addition to a traveling retrospective organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 2005, Sam Gilliam was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1971); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1982); Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York (1993); J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (1996); Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2011); and Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2018), among many other institutions. A semi-permanent installation of Gilliam’s paintings opened at Dia:Beacon in August 2019. His work is included in over fifty public collections, including those of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago. Sam Gilliam, Green April, 1969, acrylic on canvas, 98 x 271 x 3 7/8 inches (248.9 x 688.3 x 9.8 cm), Collection of Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, photography by Lee Thompson...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Screen

Gamma - Etching by Nicola Carrino - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 32x32 cm. Interesting colored etching and chalcography on paper with a embossing stamp (on lower-left), representing a geometric composition. Hand-signed with penc...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

Mardi Gras 1980 New Orleans (playful forms cavorting in the carnival fun)
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Mardi Gras 1980, New Orleans", shows playful forms cavorting in the carnival celebration. It is signed in the lower left, and stamped/numbered "671/850" in the lower right corner. ...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Bright Vibrant Pop Art Silkscreen Lithograph Print NYC Abstract Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Red Angel, intensely and seductively colored: swooning purples and reds, ecstatic lemon yellows, and black construction paper. Jostling shapes, geometric and biomorphic, lyrical and hard-edged, refuse to resolve neatly Assemblage, a bold strategy to keep viewers unsettled and curious, the reward for which are profuse and luscious details: varied incidents of refinement, suggestive signs, most in a private code, not merely ornamental but integral to the overall message. William Scharf (born 1927, Media, PA) is an American artist from New York, he teaches at The Art Students League of New York. Painting with acrylics, he was a member of the New York School movement. Often categorized as a late generation Abstract Expressionist, Known for producing paintings with abstract compositions incorporating biomorphic and geometric forms in vivid colors, the artist was influenced by Surrealism, the Color Field painters, and symbolism. He apprenticed with Mark Rothko and was influenced by his color field paintings. The surrealist painter Arshile Gorky and the Abstract expressionism style found in 1950s New York City also influenced Scharf. His exhibits include San Francisco Art Institute (1969), the Pepperdine University's Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art (2001), and Richard York Gallery in New York City (2004). In the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, being serious meant following the tenets of the New York School, which required abstract paintings to be spontaneous improvisations, the messier the better. At once hedonistic and disciplined, his brazen paintings are nothing if not promiscuous. The best ones mix the dynamism of gestural abstraction with sensual rhythms of decorative patterning, sometimes souping up the stew with cartoonish symbols and flourishes so ripe they belong in a dandy's fantasies. His exhibits include San Francisco Art Institute (1969), the Pepperdine University's Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art (2001) and Richard York Gallery in New York City (2004). Scharf's work has been exhibited in a number of galleries, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Meredith Ward Fine Art, and Hollis Taggart Galleries in New York City. Scharf has been an instructor of art at various institutions including The Art Students League, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is a member of the Society of Illustrators and the Artists Equity Association. EDUCATION 1944-49 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — Philadelphia, PA (1948 Cresson Scholar) 1949 The University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, PA 1948 The Academie de la Grand Chaumiere — Paris, France 1947 The Barnes Foundation — Merion, PA 1939-41 Samuel Fleisher Memorial School— Philadelphia, PA (also known as Graphic Sketch Club) TEACHING HISTORY Instructor: Painting & Drawing 1987-Present Art Students League, New York, NY 1989, 74, 69, 66, 63 San Francisco Institute of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 1965-69 he School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1964 Art Center of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Guest Lecturer 1979 Pratt Institute, New York, NY 1974 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1974 California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA Recent Solo Exhibitions: 2005 Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York, NY 2004 Richard York Gallery, New York, NY 2002 P.S.1/MOMA, Queens, NY 2001 The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA 2000-2001 The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Selected Group Exhibitions: 2005 National Academy of Design, New York, NY 2005 Peter McPhee Fine Arts, Stone Harbor...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

Red Sky, Minimalist Abstract Screenprint by John Stritch
Located in Long Island City, NY
John Stritch was an American artist best known for his abstract and sculptural work. "Red Sky" features an abstracted and simplified red landscape. This screen...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Kelly, Composition (Axsom No. I-b, p. 178), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 149, published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Jules Olitski, Mozart Night, color field silkscreen for Lincoln Center, Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Jules Olitski Mozart Night, 1992 Silkscreen on wove paper Signed, dated, titled and numbered 71/108 in graphite pencil on the front Edition 71/108 47 × 36 inches Unframed Silkscreen ...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Documenta Geigy Das Unbehagen in der Kunst (Planche VII)
Located in Paris, FR
Wood engraving, 1965 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 187/300 Publisher : Geigy A.G., Bâle, Suisse Catalog : [Arntz 245] 58.50 cm. x 39.50 cm. 23.03 in. x 15.55 in. (...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Engraving

Medaglia 25 Anni Tecno Limited Edition bronze medallion plaque famous sculptor
Located in New York, NY
ARNALDO POMODORO Medaglia 25 Anni Tecno (Two Sided Bronze Medallion), 1979 Bronze (incised signature) 2 1/2 × 2 × 7/10 inches Edition 196/1600 Unframed This beautiful two sided limit...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Bronze

Invisible Flying Object 1977 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Pierre Alechinsky Invisible Flying object - 1977 Print - Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper   25.75'' x 19.5'' Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 10/100 After completing his studies at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in 1947, Pierre Alechinsky immediately became one of the founders and most active members of the CoBrA group . He began working with other members 'four-handed', especially with Appel and Dotremont, producing oil paintings filled with a multitude of small figures; his taste for ironical titles and curved lines was already becoming evident. After Cobra disbanded, Alechinsky moved to Paris where he studied printmaking and moved in Surrealist circles. His work contains residual figurative motifs, such as goblins, reptiles of every description, volcanoes, and rushing streams. The beasts and geographical elements arouse disquiet as well as smiles of complicity. The recipient of the Andrew Mellon...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled Abstract Picture (Limited edition authorized promotional reproduction)
Located in New York, NY
Gerhard Richter Untitled Abstract Picture, 2002 Offset lithograph on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper - Artist Authorized reproduction Not signed, edition of 3433 12 1/2 × 16 3.5 inches Unframed Printed on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper, this beautiful and colorful piece was part of a portfolio of loose plate reproductions for Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes works. Released during his exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art (Abstract Pictures) and the Museum of Modern Art (Gerhard Richter, 40 Years of Painting). It depicts Richters 1999 Oil on Aluminum abstract picture) More about Gerhard Richter: Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Throughout his career, Richter has negotiated the frontier between photography and painting, captivated by the way in which these two seemingly opposing practices speak to and challenge one another. From exuberant canvases rendered with a squeegee and acerbic color charts to paintings of photographic detail and close-ups of a single brushstroke, Richter moves effortlessly between the two mediums, reveling in the complexity of their relationship, while never asserting one above the other. Richter’s life traces the defining moments of twentieth-century history and his work reverberates with the trauma of National Socialism and the Holocaust. In the wake of the Second World War, Richter trained in a Socialist Realist style sanctioned by East Germany’s Communist government. When he defected to West Germany in 1961, a month before the Berlin Wall was erected, Richter left his entire artistic oeuvre up to that point behind. From 1961 to 1964—alongside Blinky Palermo and Sigmar Polke—Richter studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he began to explore the material, conceptual, and historical implications of painting without ideological restraint. Richter’s earliest paintings in Düsseldorf, stimulated by a fascination with current affairs and popular culture, responded to images from magazines and newspaper cuttings. Through the 1960s, Richter continued to address found and media images of subjects such as military jets, portraits, and aerial photographs. Notably, he reimagined family pictures he had smuggled from East Germany that included his smiling uncle Rudi, dressed in a Nazi uniform...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Abstract Color Field Gradient Lithograph Eric Orr Poligrafia Barcelona LA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Eric Orr, (American 1939-1998) In Barcelona, 1989, Color lithograph, hand signed in pencil and numbered from edition of 75 sheet 30 x 22", Published by Poligrafia Eric Orr (1939–1...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Black Watch II, signed and numbered 39/150 screen print
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a signature color-field composition with multiple thin colored stripes created by Gene Davis. Gene Davis (American, 1920-1985) Screenprint Black Watch I, II and III, 1974 ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Screen

Red Six - Lithograph by Lorenzo Indrimi - 1970 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Red Six is a lithograph realized by the Italian painter  Lorenzo Indrimi in the 1970s. The artist found inspiration in the most primitive human experiences. This print is a hand-si...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Love will save nature - Fine art giclÃCe print, Digital on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Love will save nature". It is a mixed media work with several layers, flashy colors and different patterns about nature. I know we all feel it... pandemic, war, economic uncertainty...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Digital

My Journey Portfolio 1998 Mourlot Lithographs Healing Efforts and Big Hearts
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Alexandra Nechita Title: My Journey - Blue Portfolio Artworks: Healing Efforts, Big Hearts Are Never Too Big Year: 1998 Lithographs on Arches Archival Paper    Size; 35½'' x...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

SIerra Country #2
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sierra Country" 1969 is an original color serigraph on Wove paper by Canadian/American artist Howard Bradford, 1919-2008. It is ha...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Screenprint for the Relocation Project, Serpentine Gallery, London. UK Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Tadashi Kawamata Untitled for the Relocation Project, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1997 Screenprint on wove paper Pencil signed, dated '97 and numbered 169/180. 34 1/2 × 24 3/4 inches...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

À la gloire de l'image et art poétique 15 lithographs by Zao Wou-ki AGE271-285
Located in Hong Kong, HK
À la gloire de l'image et art poétique, 1976 by Zao Wou-ki Printed by Ediciones Polígrafia, Barcelona The portfolio, comprising 15 Lithographs in color, With the printed signatures and dates on each. accompanied by the title page and text in French by Roger Callois, lacking the justification, loose, as issued, contained in a paper wrapper, lacking the cloth wrapper case, with central fold as issued. image 40 x 67 cm; sheet 49.7 x 71.6 cm image 15 ³/₄ x 26 ³/₈ cm; sheet 19 ⁹/₁₆ x 28 ³/₁₆ cm Edition of 300 plus 15 Artist Proofs. Literature: Catalogue Raisonné of Zao Wou-ki's graphic works (AGERUP) plates 271-285 About the Artist: Born in 1920 in Beijing, Zao Wou-Ki attended the National School of Arts, Hangzhou for six years under the supervision of Lin Fengmian...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Totem - Lithograph by Giulio Marelli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Giulio Marelli in 1970 ca. Edition of 150 in arab numbers and XXV in roman numbers. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Very g...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

The yellow clown circus
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1967 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 45/150 Publisher : Galerie Berggruen (Paris) Catalog : [Mourlot 443] 77.00 cm. x 59.00 cm. 30.31 in. x 23.23 in. (pa...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Frank Stella Hand Signed 93/100 Whitney Museum Lithograph Abstract Expressionist
Located in New York, NY
Frank Stella Large Limited Edition Hand Signed Whitney Museum Print, 1985 Offset Lithograph Hand signed, dated and numbered 93 from the edition of 100, lower left front 75 7/10 × 52 ...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Abstract Cubist Composition - Lithograph - Mourlot (Ginestet #app65)
Located in Paris, IDF
Jacques VILLON Abstract Cubist Composition, 1961 Stone Lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Engraved by Deschamps after the painting of Villon and under his control Printed signature in t...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Solar Imp
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on cream wove paper. Signed and numbered 112/126 in pencil by Frankenthaler. Printed by Brand X Editions, Ltd., New York. Published b...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Color, Screen

Sol LeWitt, Lines, Not Long, Not Heavy, Not Touching, Drawn at Random (Circle)
Located in Hamburg, DE
Sol LeWitt (American, 1928-2007) Lines, Not Long, Not Heavy, Not Touching, Drawn at Random (Circle), 1970 Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Dimensions: 44.5 × 32.1 cm (17.5 × 12.6 in)...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Two Metamorphosed Women with a Mythological Creature
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist signed lower right and is in very good condition. Walter Becker was a German artist. Another impress...
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Mid-19th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Josef Albers, Study to Homage to the Square, 1977
By (after) Josef Albers
Located in Torino, IT
JOSEF ALBERS, Bottrop 1888 - New Haven 1976 Homage to the Square, Renewed Hope, 1977 (no. 5) Color d'après silkscreen, mm. 207x207. (from 1962 oil on masonite). Perfect copy, publis...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Untitled. SF-353 from “Papierski Portfolio”
Located in Malmo, SE
Untitled. SF-353 from “Papierski Portfolio” 1992. Signed by the artist. Artwork size : 56 x 76 cm Frame size : 75x97x4 cm Museum glass anti-reflective. Signed AP (artist proof) Sam Francis Archive Number: SF-353 Publisher: The Litho Shop, Santa Monica. Free shipment worldwide. Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire. Alongside names such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Sam Francis is an artist who has succeeded in demonstrating a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre. The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that, characteristically enough, can be called the “musicality” of his paintings. The work of Sam Francis provides a visible meeting place for the conscious and the unconscious. His pictures are the cross-fertilisation of what has already been experienced with what exists still only as desire, a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking. Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, Sam Francis spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide, the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. He was also fascinated by the four ancient elements – earth, water, air and fire – which developed into a leitmotif in his work. Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of around twenty, he soon found himself increasingly consumed by the power of art. He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he not only made frequent excursions to a number of European cities, but also embarked on many journeys to South America and Asia. He continued to move from place to place, primarily in the USA and Japan, right up until his death in 1994. Sam Francis’s first...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" 1997, is an original color etching on wove paper by noted American artist Charles Eckart, b.1935. It is hand signed, dated and inscribed "Proof for Steve Head...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

Joan Miro - Original Abstract Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro Miro Original Abstract Lithograph Artist: Joan Miro Medium: Original lithograph on Rives vellum Portfolio: Miro Lithographe V Year: 1981 E...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Per un teatre a Catalunya 1973 original lithograph poster heavyweight Barcelona
Located in Miami, FL
Bibliography: The work appears reviewed in the catalog raisonné: Miró Litografo V, 1972 – 1975 . Maeght Éditeur. Patrick Cramer. Page 50. Reference number 913. Technical details of ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Concetto Spaziale A
Located in New York, NY
Etching and aquatint with embossing and punched holes on Fabriani paper. Signed, numbered (96/210) and dated in pencil lower right corner. Published by International Graphic Arts S...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint, Color

Large Abstract Expressionist Color Monotype, Oil Painting Tom Lieber
Located in Surfside, FL
Tom Alan Lieber, (American, born 1949), GTW #11 -7, 1986, Oil and mixed media on paper, 30.25 x 44 inches, Hand signed and dated lower right Provenance: Garner Tullis Workshop, ...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media, Oil, Monotype

Life Forces - 1978 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Kyohei Inukai Life Forces - 1978 Print - Silkscreen   30'' x 22½'' in Edition: signed in pencil and marked 128/200 Since the 1940s, Kyohei Inukai has created his own brand of illusi...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Lithographier Originale (Les Peintures Sur Carton) (Abstract, Fun, Gestural)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miro Lithographier Originale (Les Peintures Sur Carton De Miro) Original Color Lithograph Year: 1965 Size: 14.5x10.5in Edition: 150 Portfolio: DLM 151-152 Publisher: Maeght Ed...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Vulcano 1
Located in Mexico City, MX
Alexandre Arrechea´s work remains caught in an endless uphill climb towards a new representational framework. The pieces he produces serve as a warning of our own limits and how pret...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint

Homage to the Square - P2, F5, I1
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Homage to the Square - Portfolio 2, Folder 5, Image 1" from the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 origina...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, Mangold developed a reductive vocabulary based on geometric forms, monochromatic color, and an emphasis on the flatness of t...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Grey Open
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American artists that radically defined abstraction and establish...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

Les baigneuses
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is part of my private collection of the School of Paris era. It is pencil signed in the lower left corner by the artist and numbered 88/200.
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Oil, Lithograph

Storm - Original etching - Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Julius BALTAZAR (1949 -) Storm Etching on vellum Signed on the right bottom and numbered on /20 Size : 41 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) Excellent condition, paper slightly yellowed
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

Untitled
Located in Kansas City, MO
Hans Jurgen Kleinhammes Untitled Color Serigraph Year: 1977 Size: 21 x 14 in Edition: 1,500 Signed in the plate Publisher: HMK Fine Arts, New York COA provided Ref.: 924802-922 Hans-Jürgen Kleinhammes ( November 16, 1937 in Augsburg – August 2008 there) was a German painter and graphic artist. He studied from 1959 to 1961 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, from 1961 to 1965 at the State University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Thiemann, Mavignier and Wunderlich. In 1966 he went to Paris for a year on a grant (“ Cité Internationale des Arts ”). From the mid-1960s he developed his visual language, which was reduced to landscape fragments and signet-like abstraction. (“the representation is strongly objectified, but does not lack a surreal-poetic quality...”). He saw Caspar David Friedrich , René Magritte and Giogio de Chirico as his role models . From 1964 he titled his pictures with the term “New Landscape”, which he determined. At the same time, Werner Nöfer and Jens Lausen were working on a similar artistic program. In 1968 he was a co-founder of the CO-OP artists' cooperative Hamburg , which wanted to switch off the art market with several graphic portfolio editions (members included Bruno Bruni , Dizi, Klaus Geldmacher , Dieter Glasmacher , Ullrich Hohenhaus, Tomislav Laux, Ernst Mitzka, Werner Nöfer, Sigmar Polke , Anna Oppermann...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Untitled by Dan Christensen (silver and purple abstract)
Located in New York, NY
This large, abstract image celebrates the 13th Annual Community Holiday Festival, 1983 at Lincoln Center. It is signed and numbered by the artist from the edition of 144 (plus 18 APs) and was printed at Fine Creations, NY. This print comes directly from the publisher, Lincoln Center Editions...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Clinton Hill, Ocotillo (Cactus), 1962, woodcut, landscape/abstraction
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor. Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, he joined the US Navy during World War II and beca...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Abstraction in Black - Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Eduardo CHILLIDA (after) Abstraction in Black Lithograph Printed signature in the plate On kraft paper 81 x 55,5 cm (c. 32 x 22 in) Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Be the Dance, Colorful Abstract Mixed-Media Art on Design Work on Paper
Located in New york, NY
In the artist's Art on Design print series, Be the Dance, 2023 by a.muse is a colorful one-of-a-kind art on paper. The work is an invitation to freedom of self-expression and invites...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Ink, Gouache, Rag Paper, Monotype

Abstract Composition (Minimalism, Landscape, Mediterranean, Catalonia, 50% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
"Composición", (in Yellow) Year: 1977 Color etching Signed, dated, numbered in pencil Edition of 75 Size: 14.6 × 24.6 on 22.0 × 30.0 inches COA provided Joan Hernández Pijuan’s lif...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

America La France Variations III
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) is one of the essential American abstract painters that radically defined post-war abstraction in New York City. Today, his work appears in museum coll...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled (abstract expressionist monoprint)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful 1994 monotype painting by American artist, David Chamberlain (b.1950). Oil on Arches paper, image measures 16.5 x 21.5 inches; sheet measures 22 x 30 inches. The subtle variations of the oil application are quite lovely. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower margin. Printed on Rives heavy wove paper. Excellent, clean condition with no damage or restoration. Unframed: sheet is loose with no backing. Ships rolled in tube with glassine paper. David Chamberlain (American, b Canton, Ohio 1949) has been a full-time artist since 1977, and has created more than 2000 original works in both two and three dimensions. Over 100 of his works appear in the collections of recognized arts institutions and museums, worldwide. A serious and passionate musician (a cappella jazz singer with three recording albums and over 700 concerts in this avocation), Chamberlain's artistic approach and imagery is inspired by studies of musical patterns and relationships. Other influences include topology, poetry, design and flying. His sculptures are noted for their playful explorations of lyrical, melodic edges and harmonious spaces. The surfaces are all one continuous form; the insides become the outsides and vice-versa; the edges are all one line. Mediums include mahogany, bronze, titanium, gold, and ceramic/porcelain. His paintings reflect an enthusiasm for composition and improvisation. Chamberlain has developed a way to create original oil paintings using methods adapted from monotype processes incorporating a light table and mirrors, an etching press, and a variety of hands-on tools (including fingers, rollers, static electricity and blowing)... but no brushes. This method, sometimes called the Chamberlain Method, makes possible the intense collaborations he is known for, where he and another artist work on the same painting at the same time. Called Duett Painting, this mutual and simultaneous way for two artists to paint together attempts to involve the backgrounds of each, directly and profoundly. There are no rules, and there is no place to hide whoever the artists are appears in the composition. As each artist's marks influence the other's, the painting takes on a momentum of its own, compelling the artists toward a new direction neither would have pursued on their own. Chamberlain has worked with over 100 artists, musicians, dancers, poets and creative people from the USA, Asia, Europe, South America and Africa. About half of his paintings are collaborative duetts; half are conventional solo works using these techniques. His studio is based near Boulder, Colorado. He is married, with two children, a dog and three cats. EDUCATION MLA University of Colorado 2002 Landscape Architecture MFA University of Pennsylvania 1977 Sculpture & Printmaking BA Princeton University 1971 Architecture & Design SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Consulate of Japan, San Francisco, CA 1999, 1998 Major Shows Muse a Muse' Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1997, 1999 Retrospective: "Solos, Duets & Concertos" Muskegon Mus. of Art, MI 1996 "Duets" Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE 1995 MacLaren/Markowitz Gallery, Boulder, CO 1991 Retrospective: McKissick Museum of Art, Columbia, SC 1990 Retrospective: The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA 1988 Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA 1981, 1984, 1988 Gibson Gallery, SUNY at Potsdam, NY 1987 Arlene McDaniel Galleries, Simsbury, CT 1986 Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT 1985, 1986 Gallerie Obussier, Nantucket, MA 1985 New Acquisitions Gallery, Syracuse, NY 1983 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 1983 COMMISSIONS: Operhall Suite; [Series of 6 original works] Muskegon Museum of Art 1994 Symphony Suite; Gibbes Museum & Charleston Symphony Orchestra 1994 Gospel Suite in F; New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA 1994 Eroica; Morgridge Auditorium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 1992 Balletté; Southworth Library, Canton College, Canton, NY 1991 A Une Passante; M. C. Wallace Library, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 1991 Festivale; K. B. K. Foundation, Boston, MA 1990 A Une Passante; SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY 1989 Balletté; Ensign-Bickford Corp., Simsbury, CT 1987 Torus; Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA 1986 Rondella; BNWC, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1985 Viole, Ayre; Asset Management, Inc., Essex, CT 1983 Cantata; Horne Library, Babson College, Wellesley, MA 1981 COLLECTIONS Museums Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, England Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA British Museum, London, England Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC Currier Gallery & Museum, Manchester, NH Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley, MA DeCordova Museum, Linclon, MA Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville,TN Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, England Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC Gibson Gallery & Museum, SUNY Potsdam, NY Greenville County Art Msueum, Greenville, SC Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY McKissick Museum of Art, Columbia, SC Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute of Art, Utica, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC Nelson Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA Taylor Museum/CSFAC, Colorado Springs, CO University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Institutions American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan [selected] Arjo Wiggins/Arches S.A., Annonay, France Bank of America, Boston, MA Boso Yusi Company, Tokyo, Japan Boston Ballet, Boston, MA Canadian Foreign Ministry, Ottawa, Canada Chase Manhattan Bank, Vietnam Embassy of Japan, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates FIA Institute, Tokyo, Japan Fidelity Ventures & Associates, Boston, MA Frederik Meijer Sculpture Gardens, Grand Rapids, MI Gauteng Legislature, Gauteng, South Africa German Embassy to Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam Helix Technology Corporation, Longmont, CO Ito-En Company, Tokyo, Japan JAFCO America Ventures, Boston, Palo Alto, Tokyo Japanese Consulates: Boston, MA; Atlanta, GA; San Francisco, CA Japanese Foreign Ministry, Tokyo, Japan Japan External Trade Organization, New York, Tokyo Kepner-Tregoe Company, Princeton, NJ Kobe Steel, Ltd Tokyo, Kobe Mochida Medicines, Inc., Tokyo Monsanto, European Division, Brussels, Belgium New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA Nueva Set-Kei, Inc. Tokyo, Japan Opinion Research Company, Princeton, NJ PAR Associates, Inc., Boston, MA Price, Waterhouse & Company, Greenwich, CT Princeton Club of Japan, Tokyo, Japan Saint Joseph's Heart Hospital, Lexington, KY Spencer, Fane & Browne; Shugert & Thomson, Kansas City, MO Temple Society of Concord, Syracuse, NY T. Rowe Price, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO University of Wisconsin School of Business, Madison, WI Vietnam Embassy to Canada, Ottawa, Canada Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Stamford, CT COLLABORATIONS Johannesburg, South Africa (& Artist Proof Studio) 1997 Duetts with: Kagiso Pat Mautloa, Durant Sihlali, Mmakgabo Sebidi, Dumisane Mabaso, Nhlanhla Xaba, Pepe Abela, Vincent Baloyi, Ntepe Osiah Masekwameng, Gordon Gabashane, Sokhaya Nkosi Vietnam (& Indochina Arts Project) 1995 Fine Arts Associations, Saigon, Hue and Hanoi; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Hanoi Duetts with: Do Minh Tam, Hoc Hai, Huy Oanh, Le Anh Van, Le Thong, Le Van Suu, Manh Tuan, Mai Khanh, Nghia Duyen, Thuc Ban, Tran Khan Chuong, Tran Luong Studio Duetts 1995-2001 With: Yuji Kishimoto (Architect -- Japan/USA), Emi Tajima (Japanese master caligrapher), Nguyen Quynh Nhu (Vietnam), Eduardo Chavez & Arturo Miranda (Mexico), Kyi May Kaung (Burmese Poet), Patrick Moraz (Swiss/American composer/performer), Jingalu (Aboriginal Australian artist), Rungsak Dokbua (Thailand), and Americans Don Grusin (Composer/performer), Dave Grusin (Composer/performer), Harry Skoler (Composer/performer), Sarah Schneider (Dancer/choreographer), Sally Ranney (artist/humanist), Cleo Parker Robinson (Dancer/choreographer) China (PRC) 2001-2004 Proposal for an Artistic Collaboration with China, 2001-2004 (38 pages). Involving ten Chinese Artists, streaming on the internet, development of 160 museum-quality Duett paintings for world-wide exhibition; budget 1.6 million USD. HIGHER EDUCATION Visiting Artist [Associate Professor One-year appointment] 1990/1991 Art Department, University of South Carolina Adjunct Professor 1991-1994 Art Department, Rivier College, Nashua, NH Fellow/Panelist The Aspen Institute Aspen, CO 2000 Conference on World Affairs [Univ of Colo, Boulder] 1990-1998 Visiting Artist Haverford School, Bryn Mawr, PA 1999 Clemson University, Clemson, SC 1997, 1998 African Institute of Art, FUNDA Soweto, South Africa 1997 Princeton University 1996 Williams College 1995 Bradford College 1994, 1998 College of Charleston 1994 University of Pennsylvania 1993 University of South Carolina 1990, 1994 SUNY Albany 1992, 1993 Pine Manor College 1987, 1989 Bentley College 1988 Simon's Rock/Bard College 1988 Brandeis University 1986 Lyme Academy of Fine Arts 1985, 1986 Emerson College 1985 Harvard University 1984, 1985 Mount Holyoke College 1984 Syracuse University 1983 Colorado College 1977 Director; Artist in Residence 1974-1977 Arts College House, University of Pennsylvania Taught Drawing (figure & still-life) and Photography Initiated Interdisciplinary Program: Dance, Music, Poetry, Theatre, Film, Architecture, Art SCHOOLS & PROGRAMS Instructor, Photography & Visual Arts 1974-1976 Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts Chair, Performing Arts Department 1971-1974 Purnell School Instructor, Visual Arts Department 1970-1974 Purnell School [Taught (& developed syllabi for) 21 Studio arts courses] Juror, College Entrance Examination Board Area: Fine Arts 1972 AWARDS Selection Who's Who: in American Art; in the East; in the World Grants Krasner-Pollack Foundation Emergency Grant, 1999 Indochina Arts Project (Ford Foundation) 1994 Individual Artist Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission 1991 K. B. K. Foundation, 1991, 1994 High Meadow Foundation, 1990 Ford Venture Fund Grant [Univ. of Pennsylvania] 1975-1977 Haas Memorial Fund Fellowship, 1976 GRANTS IN KIND Kodak, Rochester, NY Papeteries Canson & Montgolfier, Annonay, France; Royal Talens BV Oil Paints, Apeldoorn, Holland Takach Etching Press Corp., Albuquerque, NM South African Airlines; American Airlines Korean Airline; Trans World Airlines PUBLICATIONS Film segmant Video Jukebox DeCordova Museum of Art, Linclon, MA 1999 Film David Chamberlain: Artistry in Motion {30 minutes} SC-ETV/PBS 1992 Book Melodic Forms: The Sculpture of David Chamberlain {75 pages, color} 1990 David Godine, Publisher Boston, MA Videotape Search for Perfection; {16 minutes} FIS/Pucker Safrai 1982 Award: Red Ribbon Category: The Arts American Film Festival, New York INTERVIEWS All Things Considered, National Public Radio Weekend Edition, Monitor Radio & Public Radio International CNN Headline News, Atlanta, GA International News Scene, Reuters Press International, New York/Hong Kong Terra Infirma, Corp. for Public Broadcasting BBC World, London Art Scene, S. Carolina Public Radio Jazz Times, Blue Lakes Public Radio, Grand Rapids, MI Conversations with Jean Feraca, Wisc. Public Radio, Madison, WI WBZ-TV Boston, MA WCNY-TV Syracuse, NY WNPE-TV Watertown, NY WSBK-TV Boston, MA WERS-Radio Boston, MA RELATED EXPERIENCE Designs Arts College House (Program) ; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1975 Performing Arts Center (Architectural); Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ 1973 Fine Arts Center (Architectural); Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ 1971 Diplome Centre Audio Visuel Langues Modernes, Vichy, France 1973 School for International Training, Experiment in International Living, Putney, VT 1973 Graduate Credits Teaching Studio Art Institute, Colorado College, 1972 Consultant Sculpture Walk Project Univ. of South Carolina, Architectural Facilities Planning 1990/91 "How to create, fund and impliment a self-sufficient world-class sculpture collection" Speaker "[Man] In The Arena" , Haverford School, Haverford, PA 2000 "Architecture & Painting" Clemson University Dept of Art & Architecture, AIA Lecture 1997 Reflections on Creativity" Am. Inst. of Architects Convention, Highlands, NC 1994 "Neurons, Notes & Sketches", Conference on Art & Mathematics Albany, NY 1993 "Music into Sculpture", Conference on Art & Mathematics Albany, NY 1992 "On the Creative Process", Empire State Plaza Art Collection Albany, NY 1993 "Creativity and Fullfillment", Conference on Health & Spirituality Boston, MA 1991 Vocalist & Cahoots (jazz a cappella quartet) 1974-present Album Recordings: "Released" (1993) ; Arranger "Haven't We Met" (1991); All Good Children (octet) 1972-74 Album: "All Good Children" (1980); Canto Ergo Sum (sextet) 1971-72; The Footnotes (double sextet) 1967-1971 Album: "Another Summer...
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