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Thomas A. Robertson'The Orange Point' — Mid-Century Modernismc. 1940
c. 1940
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'The Orange Point', color serigraph, edition 54, c. 1940. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed/54' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; the full sheet with wide margins (1 5/8 to 2 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. Printed in seven colors from as many screens, each prepared by drawing with a litho crayon on a textured surface. The lightest areas of the image are printed to appear lighter than the paper color. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Thomas Robertson's 'The Orange Point' was exhibited at the 15th annual New Orleans Art League membership exhibition, in 1941; and at 'Serigraphy: The Rise of Screenprinting in America,' Zimmerli Art Museum, 2017-2018. The work is featured with a full-page illustration in David Acton's seminal book on American printmaking, 'A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960', Worcester Art Museum, 1990, pp.148-9.
Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tom Robertson (1911-1976) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Initially, a painter known for his stylized portraits in the 1930s, his work evolved into non-objective imagery in the 1940s. Inspired by Native American art, Robertson derived the arcs, floating circles, serpentine slashes, and meandering lines of his modernist compositions from the graphic motifs of the ancient Caddoan Indians of southwestern Arkansas.
Robertson studied serigraphy in New Orleans in the '30s and began to concentrate on printmaking after he returned to Little Rock around 1940, producing a remarkable oeuvre of screenprints—independent and uniquely expressive works that shared the themes of his watercolor and gouache abstractions.
His first screenprint, 'Union,' was included in his second solo exhibition at the Delgado Museum. Several of his serigraphs were shown in the fifteenth annual membership exhibition of the New Orleans Art League late in 1941. In 1945 a show of Robertson's serigraphs with twenty of his nonobjective watercolors was mounted in a one-person exhibition at the Addison Gallery in Andover, Massachusetts.
- Creator:Thomas A. Robertson (1911 - 1976)
- Creation Year:c. 1940
- Dimensions:Height: 10.5 in (26.67 cm)Width: 7 in (17.78 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Myrtle Beach, SC
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