Alice Asmar

Rainbow Dancer

1980

Artist: Alan Feltus– American (1943- ) Title: Dancer at Rest Year: 1981 Medium: Color Lithograph Sight size: 30 x 22 inches. Sheet size: 30 x 22 inches Framed size: 37 x 29 inches Publisher: Editions Press. Blindstamp lower right Printer: Editions Press. Printed on Arches paper Signature: Signed lower right Edition: 30 plus proofs. This one numbered 7/30 Condition: Good This contemporary realist lithograph is by Alan Evan Feltus (1943-). The lithograph was printed and published in 1981 by Editions press in an edition of 30. It is printed on Arches paper. It is signed and dated in the lower right and numbered 7/30 in the lower left, both in pencil. It is in a very nice modern wood frame, fully floating on a linen mat and covered with and Plexiglas. The print and mat are in good condition. The frame is in fair to good condition with normal wear. The Plexiglas has some faint scratches. About the artist: Alan Feltus was born in Washington, D.C. in 1943 and grew up in Manhattan. He studied for one year at the Tyler School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and then Cooper Union in New York (B.F.A. 1966), and Yale University (M.F.A. 1968). He has received many awards for his work that include the Rome Prize Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Grant in Painting, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant in Painting, two Pollock Krasner Foundation Grants in Painting, the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award from Cooper Union, and the Raymond P...

Artist: Alice Asmar American (1929- ) Title: Taos Corn Dancers Year: 1980 Medium: Lithograph on BFK Rives paper Sight size: 20.5 x 22.25 inches. Sheet size: 21.75 x 27.5 inches. Signature: Signed lower right Edition: 90. This one: 77/90 Condition: Very good Unframed This print by Alice Asmar (1929- ) is in very good never-framed condition with no flaws to note. American contemporary artist of Lebanese and Greek descent, Alice Asmar's art is often inspired by her love of nature, combined with a deep respect for native American culture, her work evolved into Southwestern themes of Indian Ceremonial Dance-Dramas, Indian portraits and landscapes. Her parents moved to Portland, Oregon when she was just a baby. She started drawing and painting at a very early age. Alice was considered a child prodigy; she was winning awards and recognition before the age of 10. The artwork of her early years was inspired by the splendors of nature, from the inscrutable pines and ancient sculptured rocks along the Oregon Coast to the mysterious ocean mists. She Graduated magna cum laude from Lewis and Clark College in Portland and obtained her Master's of Fine Arts Degree at The University of Washington in Seattle. Soon after graduating she accepted a job as an engineering drafter at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. Her Assignment was clearing top secret drawings for air-to-ground missile. Alice worked for Boeing for less than a year. They offered her an engineering scholarship but she decided to go back to the art she loved doing from she was a child. In 1954, Alice received her teaching certificate from the University of Washington after which she taught art at Lewis & Clark (1955 to 1958). After studying and traveling throughout the Near East, France, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Turkey, The Greek Islands, Greece and Lebanon, Asmar set up studios in California, New Mexico and Oregon. Today, She works in an 800 - square-foot studio that she designed with four skylights and is located behind her home in Burbank, California. A master of several media, Asmar is distinguished for her many techniques which include paintings in Oil, casein and Acrylic, drawing in ink, pencil and pastel, collage, tapestry, books, lithography, etching, Engraving on metal on plexiglas, portraits, murals and banners. Her hand engraving of innovative designs for dinner and household wares for Nambe Mills in Santa Fe is also recognized internationally. Alice Asmar's works are in several hundred public and private collections in the United States and Europe, including the Smithsonian Institution, Franklin Mint, Portland Art Museum, Gene Autry Hotel in Palm Springs, The Public Art Museum of Gabrova, Bulgaria, Kaiser-Permanente, and the Dr. Nicholas Townell collection, Angus, Scotland. A selected list of her EXHIBITIONS is as follows: - Seattle Art Museum. - Museum of Science & Industry, Los Angeles. - Circle Gallery Ltd, Houston - Abbot Hall Gallery, William Temple...

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