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Charles Hewitt
Urban Rattle, High Line Pop Art Sculpture Maquette Charlie Hewitt Welded Steel

2012

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$4,400
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£3,322.70
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€3,804.19
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CA$6,213.95
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A$6,784.15
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CHF 3,556.65
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MX$82,396.07
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NOK 44,416.77
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SEK 41,941.28
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DKK 28,394.23

About the Item

Charles (Charlie) Hewitt American, b. 1946 Urban Rattle 5, 2012 Steel Hand signed and titled to underside Five abstract, painted and patinated figures raised on long stalks from the base at varying angles. A smaller color maquette of the New York Highline public sculpture. Provenance: Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York. Dimensions: 26 X 17 X 6 inches Charlie Hewitt (b.1946) is a nationally known Maine-born painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His work is stylistically rooted in expressionism and surrealism, and is both playful and serious, a quality he shares with artists Alexander Calder, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, and his mentor Philip Guston, who was a major postwar figure of the New York School. Hewitt grew up in a large working-class French Canadian family in the mill-working communities of Lewiston/Auburn and Brunswick, Maine. Hewitt’s work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and in Maine at the Portland Museum of Art, the Farnsworth Museum of Art, and in the art museums at Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby colleges. Charles Hewitt maintains studios in Portland, Maine, and New York City, where his work has been exhibited continuously since 1973. Variations from his sculpture series “Urban Rattle” are installed on the High Line in Chelsea, New York (the only permanent installation on the High Line), and in the Maine cities of Lewiston and Portland. Hewitt recently unveiled his “Hopeful” sign at Speedwell Projects in Portland, Maine. Charlie Hewitt is known for his energetic abstract paintings, woodcuts, and sculptures that are informed by the millworker community he experienced growing up in the Lewiston–Auburn and Brunswick areas of Maine. In works that feature irregular geometric shapes and a bold, contrasting color palette, Hewitt reflects the culture’s dynamism and core values. Much of Hewitt’s work also deals with themes of memory, religion, and narrative, such as his “Veils” series, which he produced after 9/11. Dark yet luminous, the works incorporate multiple transparent layers of imagery that convey an aesthetic of shared memory. It was printmaking that brought Hewitt back to Maine in the 1980s when he worked at Vinalhaven Press, a print shop and studio on the island east of Rockland. It’s also where he got to know Pop Art master Robert Indiana, who already had crossed over from art to pop culture with his one-word sculpture “Love.” Hewitt lives in Yarmouth, Maine, with his wife and their two children. GRANTS AND AWARDS 1974: NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, CAPS GRANT 1997: NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, DRAWINGS, PRINTS 1998: NEW YORK STATE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, PAINTING PUBLIC COLLECTIONS THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK CITY THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D.C. MIT, LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS THE HERBERT F. JOHNSON MUSEUM, ITHACA, NEW YORK THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, NEW YORK CITY THE PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART, PORTLAND, MAINE THE COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, LEWISTON, MAINE COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, WATERVILLE, MAINE BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, BRUNSWICK, MAINE THE FOGG MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ADDISON GALLERY, ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS THE FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM, ROCKLAND, MAINE HOOD MUSEUM, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, NEW YORK CITY
  • Creator:
    Charles Hewitt
  • Creation Year:
    2012
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 26 in (66.04 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)Depth: 6 in (15.24 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38211513352

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