Frances H. Gearhart

STORM LINED - Large Format Gearhart

c. 1936

WERNER DREWES (German-American 1899-1985) TREE AT NIGHT, 1964 (Rose 241) Color woodcut Signed titled, dated and numbered 40 /210 all in pencil below image. Image 11 1/8 x 15 7/8 inc...

MARY TRAVIS (1893-1976)) LOTUS FLOWER c. 1935-40 White line color woodcut. Signed and titled in pencil. Small edition. 9 ¾” x 7 7/8”. Full sheet. Some creasing in the margins. Travis worked in Berkeley, California and was probably a follower of William S...

Bird on a Tree is an original signed limited edition ( 24/60 ) woodblock print by the Italian artist Alessandro Nastasio. It is in very good condition. Paper size 16.25 x 13.75 image 7 x 6.75 Nastasio was born in Milan in 1934. In 1952 he followed the “free school of the nude” led by Aldo Salvatori. In 1960 he attended the Atelier of Giorgio Upilio where Giacometti, Lam, Fontana, De Chirico worked and where he had the opportunity to study the themes of the inspiring myths. He worked at the MAF foundry with the master Tullio Figini who shared the secrets of the lost wax Renaissance fusion and where he met the masters Crocetti, Manfrini, Manzu , Minguzzi, Fabbri,. He then moved on to Quinto de Stampi at the De Andreis foundry where Marino Marini, Pomodoro, Rudy Wach, Strebelle, Negri and Rosental operated. A regular reader of the great sapienzal texts of antiquity, he trained in particular on the Bible which he illustrated with woodcuts, aquatints, etchings and linocuts, especially the Song of Songs, the book of Ecclesiastes and several pages of the Gospels He also drew his inspiration from the philosophical-religious tradition of the Eastern world through the reading of Rig-Veda, Upanisad and the Matnavi of Rumi. In 1966-67 he obtained the chair at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and for thirty years he devoted himself to the teaching of Art Education in various schools. Nastasio created works both pictorial and plastic in collaboration with famous architects such as: Figini and Pollini, De Carli, Gardella, Faranda, Selleri, Ponti. His great talent soon came to the attention of various art dealers: first Max G...

Etching on wove paper. Signed and numbered by the artist in pencil. Published by Galerie Le Long. *This print is supplied within a clamshell box, with book of the same name, as iss...