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1976
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Bear with Predella (from Rubber Stamp Portfolio), 1976
Rubber Stamp Print on Arches Satine with Envelope
8 × 8 inches
Edition of 1000
Unframed - with original envelope
Here is the Limited Edition, pencil numbered print by renowned American artist Don Nice. This work was originally part of the Limited Edition "Rubber Stamp" portfolio, numbered 328/1000 distributed by the Museum of Modern Art in the mid 1970s. The complete Rubber Stamp Portfolio is comprised of 13 rubber stamp prints, in black and white and color, from the artists Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Daniel Buren, Chuck Close, Barry LeVa, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Don Nice, Myron Stout, Tom Wesselmann, and Joe Zucker.
It is numbered on the verso with the artist's name stamped by Unity Engraving Company, Inc., and the print is housed in its original portfolio sleeve/envelope, which is desirable, as they often separated for framing. Never framed; fine condition.
Printer: Aaron Arnow
Distributor: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Stamped by: Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
More about Don Nice
Don Nice (1932-2019) was a prominent American painter and printmaker, who used his work and position in the art world to inspire environmental awareness from the 1960s. His early works were influenced by the Abstract Expressionist movement, in particular de Kooning, but he also found kindred spirits in the art of Alex Katz, Jasper Johns, and Marsden Hartley. In the 1960s, Nice became a leader in Pop-Realism, as his practice of abstract mark-making coalesced into figurative images, in particular the monumental single images for which he is most widely known. Void of shadow and perspective, and with an intentional nod to Americana and consumer culture, they explore motifs of food, animals, and consumer products: grapes, artichokes, apple pies, eagles, trout, and iconic brands such as Converse sneakers, and Ray-Ban sunglasses. In the following decades, he arranged these single images into more complex arrangements using the formal constructs of Native American totems, predellas borrowed from Renaissance altarpieces, and elements drawn from American folk art, to present the complex relationship of our society with the natural world. Always trying to bring the viewer closer to the earth and the very spirit of the forces in nature, his work turned to focus primarily on landscapes. He increasingly experimented with various materials, shapes, and orientations of the work in relation to the viewer. His later Earthscape and Spinner series, which were part of his daily sketching practice from the 1950s, but fully realized late in his career, challenged traditional modes of looking at art, to capture, with greater clarity, our empathetic relationship to the landscape.
From an early acquisition by the Whitney Museum through the Ford Foundation Purchase Award in 1963 to the receipt of the Lee Krasner Award in recognition of his lifelong achievements in the arts in 2018, Nice has received substantial recognition throughout his career. His work has been the subject of notable gallery and institutional exhibitions and is in the permanent collections of prestigious museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- Creator:Don Nice (1932 - 2019, American)
- Creation Year:1976
- Dimensions:Height: 8 in (20.32 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU174529868082
Don Nice
Don Nice is a classic figure in American art of the past half-century. He burst upon the scene in the early 1960’s when the Whitney Museum of American Art acquired his
“American Series #5” and he was recognized as one of the innovative group of “new
perceptual realists” who wanted to put content back into painting. Nice integrates a
gestured technique gleaned from earlier expressionist and Abstract Expressionist painters with a realist focus and energy derived from Pop Art. Combining a naturalist’s interest in observation with an artist’s compulsion for artistic vision, Nice embraces aspects of popular culture and certain critical issues of our time. He paints classic American products like sneakers, candy wrappers and soda bottles with the same intensity he lavishes on quintessential site-specific landscapes from the Hudson River Valley to the Sierra Nevada Mountains. In doing so he has created a distinctive vision of civilization’s detritus in league with cultural concerns for the environment. Born in California, he studied art in Europe and earned an MFA at Yale, and then established himself in New York City before acquiring a house and studio overlooking the Hudson River in bucolic Garrison. There he has reveled in the painterly gesture and provocative realism for which he is known. He has conjured and created a singular pursuit of new formal ideas and formats in which he visualizes the complicated and often organic interplay between process and product, between that which is common and that which is classic. Over the past 50 years Nice’s work has entered many major public collections world wide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, the
Museum of Modern Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the Walker Art Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada and the National Museum of Art in Australia. Nice has had over 60 solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad. And has been included in more than 140 group exhibitions in prominent galleries and museums globally. Nice’s work has been a subject of 4 major publications, including a monograph of the Artist’s life and work, published by Pomegranate Books. In 2018 he was the recipient of The Lee Krasner Award in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement for his distinguished career. Though out Nice’s carrier he had a deeply held concern for the environment and collaborated with environmental advocate organizations such as Nation Resource Defense Council, Open Space Institute and the Hudson Highland land Trust to name a few.
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