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Antonio Frasconi
The Sun & the Wind
1950

Name: The Sun & the Wind
Brand: Antonio Frasconi
Rating: 5 (348 reviews)

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Amazing woodcut print with whimsical, dynamic portrayal of the sun and the wind by American-Uruguayan artist Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013). Edition number, signature and date signed in pencil lower margin. Presented in an archival mat with vintage, rustic giltwood frame. Art has undergone professional conservation. Image, 16.5"H x 11.88"W. In 1953, Time magazine called Antonio Frasconi America’s foremost practitioner of the ancient art of the woodcut. Four decades later, Art Journal called him the best of his generation. Mr. Frasconi was patient and meticulous in his art. . Before producing a woodcut titled “Sunrise — Fulton Fish Market” in 1953, he spent three months wandering Lower Manhattan’s wharves and the holds of fishing boats. He spent hour upon hour studying “just how a man lifts a box,” he said. He said the capricious nature of wood governed many artistic decisions. He loved the hands-on experience of working with wood, some of which he gathered from the beach in front of his home, which he built, in South Norwalk, Conneticut. The medium of wood offer to Frasconi a very interactive process: "... often you must surrender to the grain, find the movement of the scene, the mood of the work, in the way the grain runs.” Growing up in Uruguay, he dropped out of art school, Circulo de Belles Artes, at age 12 because he was bored with copying from plaster casts of classical sculpture and became a printer’s apprentice. On his own, he made posters deriding Franco and Hitler, which he signed “Chico.” In 1945, he came to New York on a one-year scholarship to study at the Art Students League. The next year he had a show at the Brooklyn Museum. He then studied at The New School for Social Reasearch and later taught there. After moving to California, he worked as a gardener and as a guard at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, where he had an exhibition. Frasconi was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1952. In 1959 he was a runner-up for the Caldecott Medal from the U.S. children's librarians, which annually honors the illustrator of the best American picture book for children. Thus "The House That Jack Built," which he also wrote, is retrospectively termed a Caldecott Honor Book. In 1962 Frasconi won a Horn Book Fanfare award for "The Snow and the Sun - La Nieve y el Sol" a book he had created in two languages. Also in 1962, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1969. In 1968 has was invited to represent Uruguay at the 34th Venice Biennial with a retrospective of twenty years worth of his work. He collaborated with the adapter Glenway Wescott and the book designer Joseph Blumenthal on “12 Fables of Aesop,” which was published by the Museum of Modern Art and honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the year’s 50 best books. He illustrated a poem by Federico García Lorca on the brutality of Franco’s police. He abhorred art that dwelt on aesthetics at the expense of social problems. He repeatedly addressed war, racism and poverty, and devoted a decade to completing a series of woodcut portraits of people who were tortured and killed under a rightist military dictatorship in his home country, Uruguay, from 1973 to 1985. A later political work about the Vietnam War superimposed bomb sights on terror-stricken peasants. He illustrated selections from the poems of Herman Melville to comment on the Ohio National Guard’s killing of students at Kent State University in 1970. For many years Mr. Frasconi, a citizen of both Uruguay and the United States, taught at Purchase College of the State University of New York. There, in 1982, he was the Distinguished Teaching Professor of Visual Arts. During his career, he also conducted classes at Pratt Institute, the Brooklyn Museum School, and the Atlanta Art Institute. Between 1981 and 1986 he created a series of woodcuts under the name "Los desaparecidos" (The Disappeared). This series refers directly to the people who were tortured and killed during the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay. Frasconi illustrated more than 100 books, and his work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, the National Gallery of Art and the Smisonian in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. His woodcuts appeared on album and magazine covers, holiday cards, calendars and posters, and in exhibitions around the world. Several of his children’s books won awards. In 1963 he designed a stamp to honor the centennial of the National Academy of Sciences. Antonio Frasconi died in 2013 at the age of 93.

Creator:
Antonio Frasconi (1919, Argentinian)
Creation Year:
1950
Dimensions:
Height: 20.38 in (51.77 cm)Width: 17.57 in (44.63 cm)Depth: 0.57 in (1.45 cm)
Medium:
Woodcut,Paper,Ink
Movement & Style:
Expressionist
Period:
1950-1959
Condition:
Art has undergone professional conservation. Vintage, rustic giltwood frame.
Gallery Location:
Soquel, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: S39611stDibs: LU5422859041

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