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Joe Tilson
Transparency, signed limited edition print from pioneering British Pop Artist
1970

Name: Transparency, signed limited edition print from pioneering British Pop Artist
Brand: Joe Tilson
Price: 2000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Joe Tilson Transparency, 1970 Color silkscreen Signed and numbered 166 from the edition of 500 in pencil in upper margin Frame Included: held in the original vintage wood frame A lovely impression of this popular 1970 British Pop Art print! Measurements: Print: 31 x 23 inches Frame: 32 x 24 x .5 inches JOE TILSON Biography Joe Tilson (1928 - 2023) was born in London, England. From 1944 to 1946 he worked as a carpenter and cabinet maker before serving in the R.A.F between 1946 and 1949. After leaving military service, he returned to London to study at St. Martin's School of Art from 1949 to 1952, alongside Leon Kosoff and Frank Auerbach, and at the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 55 where he met Peter Blake, Allen Jones, Patrick Caulfield and David Hockney, who alongside Tilson were instrumental in the birth of British Pop Art. In 1955 the Royal College awarded Tilson the Rome Prize, taking him to live in Italy for a year, a country from which he has drawn a lifetime of inspiration. He returned to London in 1957 and took up teaching positions over the next five years at St Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art before travelling to New York to teach at The School of Visual Arts. One of the founding figures of British Pop, Tilson was an enthusiastic proponent of political activism, sexual liberation and social change. He consistently broke the pre-existing boundaries of printing and print-making as he sought to widen the scope and impact of contemporary art. However, by 1970, Tilson became increasingly disillusioned with the consumer society that Pop Art had done so much to highlight and increasingly frustrated with the lack of political action that the 1960s in Britain had promised. He moved from London to the countryside and his subject matter changed radically as he turned towards cultural history as a source of inspiration. Tilson has been a lifelong dedicated printmaker and has gained a reputation as one of Britain's foremost artists producing prints, multiples, constructions, paintings and reliefs. Exhibiting globally since the 1960s, Tilson's work is also held in collections including the Tate, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Galleria Nazionale d Arte Moderna, Rome; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Yale Centre for British Art, Connecticut; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Tilson was elected a Royal Academician in 2001, becoming a Senior Academician in 2003 when the Royal Academy presented a retrospective of his work. In 2019 he unveiled a new site-specific installation at the Vience Biennale, in collaboration with Swatch, also designing a watch strap. In the same year Tilson won the Charles Wollaston award for the most distinguished work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. He was recently commissioned to design a stained glass window for the Rosslyn Chapel in Edinburgh. In 2023 a brand-new comprehensive monograph on the artist, written by art historian, writer and curator Marco Livingstone, was published by Lund Humphries. Joe Tilson passed away aged 95 on 9 November 2023 in London, England.

Creator:

Joe Tilson (1928, British)

Creation Year:

1970

Dimensions:

Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)

Medium:

Screen,Pencil

Movement & Style:

Pop Art

Period:

1970-1979