Michael Knigin
1978 Michael Knigin Manhattan Skyline Print
1978

Name: 1978 Michael Knigin Manhattan Skyline Print
Brand: Michael Knigin
Price: 1800 USD
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About the Item

Michael Knigin (American, b. 1942) East Riverdance, 1978 Lithograph (?) Sight: 33 x 21 1/2 in. (image) Framed: 41 1/8 x 29 x 3/4 in. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered bottom Edition 76/275 Michael Knigin attended and graduated from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. During his junior year, he was awarded a Ford Foundation Grant to study fine art lithography at the renowned Tamarind Lithography Workshop, in Los Angeles. After graduating college in 1966, Knigin started teaching at the Pratt Graphic Center in Manhattan where he started a fine art lithography workshop. After a year and a half he opened his own publishing company, Chiron Press, and added a silkscreen printing facility. The shop remained in existence for over seven years, printing and publishing editions for the most renowned contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Paul Jenkins. In 1970 and 1971 he co-authored two books on lithography, which were published by Van Nostrand/Reinhold. In 1974, Knigin was invited by the Israel Museum and the Jerusalem Foundation to establish the first professional lithography workshop in Israel and to train a group of young Israeli artists. In 1988 he was appointed to the NASA Art Team and was sent to the Kennedy Space Center to visually interpret the launch of the space shuttle Discovery, celebrating NASA's return to space after the Challenger's disaster in 1986. In 1991 he was recalled to interpret the touchdown of the space shuttle Atlantis at Edward's Air Force Base. Knigin's work is included in over 60 museums and corporate collections, including the Whitney American Museum of Art, Albright-Knox, The Cooper Hewitt Museum, The Portland Museum of Art, The Israel Museum, The Port Authority of NY, Citibank, NASA, U.S. Dept. of State, and the Phillip Morris Collection. His work has been written about in approximately forty articles, featured in publications such as the New York Times, Art in America, and Art News. Last but not least, he has been commissioned to create art by over forty corporations and institutions. Source: Information courtesy of Stuart Tyrnauer Bio sourced from the archives of AskArt

Creator:

Michael Knigin (1942 - 2011, American)

Creation Year:

1978

Dimensions:

Height: 31 in (78.74 cm)Width: 20.25 in (51.44 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)

Medium:

Lithograph

Movement & Style:

Post-Modern

Period:

1970-1979