Shigeo Okumura

Lunch Break, Modern Screen Print by Shigeo Okumura

Shigeo Okumura, Japanese (1937 - 1993) - A New Leaf, Medium: Screenprint on Arches, signed, numbered and titled in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 20 x 24.5 inches, Size: 25 x 29 in...

Shigeo Okumura, Japanese (1937 - 1993) - Jimmy's Closet, Medium: Screenprint on Arches, signed, numbered and titled in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 20 x 20 inches, Size: 27 x 25 ...

Vintage oil painting on canvas of a tropical garden with palm trees, plants, birds and a pergola, executed in a distinctive modernist naive style. Signed Shigeo Okumura in the lower ...

Artist: Thomas McKnight (American, 1941-) Title: "Westhampton" Portfolio: The Hamptons *Signed by McKnight in pencil lower right Year: 1987 Medium: Original Screenprint on soft-white Somerset paper Limited edition: 143/175, (there were also 40 artist's proofs) Printer: Willco Fine Art, New York, NY Publisher: Chalk & Vermilion, New York, NY Sheet size: 21" x 23" Image size: 16" x 18.13" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away in its original green silk boxed portfolio for decades. In mint condition Notes: Numbered by McKnight in pencil lower left. Comes from McKnight's 1987 "The Hamptons" portfolio of twelve screenprints. Artist's copyright stamp lower right on verso. Biography: Thomas McKnight (born 1941) is a U.S. artist. He was born in 1941 in Lawrence, Kansas. He attended Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was one of only five art majors. He spent his junior year in Paris. After a year of graduate work in art history at Columbia University, in 1964 McKnight found a job at Time Magazine where he would work for eight years, interrupted by a two-year stint in the U. S. Army in South Korea. In 1972 McKnight left Time, summered on the Greek island of Mykonos, and commenced painting in earnest. In 1979 in Mykonos, McKnight met Renate, a vacationing Austrian student, and married the following year. Throughout the 1980s McKnight’s art, mainly limited edition serigraph prints, became increasingly popular. In 1994 he was commissioned by the White House to paint the first of three images for President Clinton...