Howard Behrens

Steps on the Coast

1996

14" x 40" Unframed Limited Edition Silkscreen of 195 Hand Signed by Bruce Herchenrader 1999 “This tranquil setting of water lilies belies the challenges we faced that day that I saw...

34" x 48" Unframed Serigraph XLIV/CLXXV Hand Signed by Howard Behrens

Original screen print which would be considered a silkscreen or serigraph of a birds eye view of Herald Square in New York City at lunch time by the contemporary American artist, Jacqueline Fogel. Edition 3/15. Signed in lower right margin by the artist. Executed in 1988. Condition is excellent. Currently unframed. Professionally matted. Overall matted measurements are 14 by 11 inches. Framing options are available. Provenance: A Venice, Florida collector. This park was named for the newspaper that was once published directly to its north. The City of New York acquired the area in 1846 as part of the opening of Bloomingdale Road (now Broadway). By the early 20th century, many printers and publishers had located in the area. The New York Herald, founded by James Gordon Bennett in 1835, was best known for its sensational coverage of scandal and crime, and for its enormous circulation. Herald Square's centerpiece monument to Bennett and his son houses a sculpture and clock that formerly topped the Herald building. The bronze figures include Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and invention, and two bell-ringing blacksmiths. The clock and figures were installed on the monument in 1940, and blacksmiths "Stuff and Guff" or "Gog and Magog" have chimed the hours Born Oct. 13, 1928, in Brooklyn, as a child she showed a great interest in drawing. She attended the Philadelphia School of Art and maintained a career as an artist throughout her life. Impressed by the native American art represented in Kachina dolls, she developed a personal style in her 20s that always incorporated bright colors. Her work ranged from land and cityscape watercolors to small to life-size polychrome sculptures made almost entirely from discarded ornate furniture parts and other found or collected objects. In 2000, she was given the opportunity to create cow sculptures for the New York Cow Parade, and in 2002 she painted sculptures for the Rescue Dog book honoring the working dogs from Sept. 11, 2001. In 2005, her Big Apple sculpture was displayed outside Trump Tower. She swam regularly in Jamaica Bay and maintained an active and vibrant lifestyle throughout her life, attending many parties, art exhibits and concerts. Fogel's multifaceted planes which should recede far into the distance and give the illusion of depth because of their tonality and color intensity appear, instead, to be on the same plane. Because the depth of field is flattened, the color areas become rather decorative. In addition, the planes on the buildings are charmingly tilted and destorted, contributing to the zaniness and gaiety of these paintings. Fogel has a graceful sense of composition and her placement of shapes is always sound. The paintings, while they seem so effortless and unselfconscious, belie an unobtrusive and playful artistic intelligence. Fogel enjoys dealing with visual paradoxes in a natural, unforced and unselfconscious manner. Shop her watercolor art for sale online. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2002DOGNY 2000Cowparade, NY 1998Michael Ingbar Gallery, NY 1996-2002Nassau County Museum, Roslyn, NY 1993-2002Guild Hall, East hampton, NY 1991Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT 1990, 1997Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 1987, 1988Bergen County Museum, New Jersey 1986-1989The Country Gallery, long Island, NY 1983Zim Lerner Gallery, NY '83, '85, '86Grace Building, NY 1983Queens Museum, NY 1979, 1980Fabian Gallery, NY 1979Sculpture CEnter, NY 1979Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NY '79, '82, '83, '87, '90, '93, '94, '96Lever House, NY 1968, 1972, 1979Gold Door Gallery, Bucks County, Pa. 1968Brooklyn Museum, NY 1966Madison Square Garden Art and Antique Show, NY 1962New Jersey Water Color Society, New Jersey 1961Newark Museum, New Jersey ONE PERSON SHOWS 1997, 1999Temple Emanuel Gallery, Great Neck, New York 1996Shelter Rock Gallery, Long Island, New York 1989East End Arts, Long Island, New York 1985The Manhattan Borough President's Gallery, New York 1984The Erato Gallery, St. Maarten, Caribbean, NY 1982, 1985Mari Gallery, Mamaroneck, NY 1981Perin - Sharpe Gallery, New Caanan, CT 1981Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX 1974Aberbach Fine Art, NY 1971Kutztown Art College, PA 1965, 1966Krasner Gallery, NY 1963Art Alliance, Philladelphia, PA 1960Carus Gallery, NY 1960San Miguel Allende, Mexico COLLECTIONS...

Vibrant green nature-themed screenprint with leaves and tree by Deborah Rumer (American, 20th Century). Titled, numbered, signed, and dated ("Viriditas Ed/40 © Deborah Rumer c. '94")...