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Style: American Modern
Platform
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Platform" 1963 is an original silkscreen by American artist Kenneth William Auvil, 1925-1999. It is signed, dated, titled and numbered 9/27 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 17 x 11.25 inches, framed size is 23.5 x 17.65 inches. Custom framed in a bronze color metal frame. It is in good condition, paper is slightly toned by age.
About the artist:
Educational Background
University of Washington, 1953 MFA Art
University of Washington, 1949 BA Art
Teaching Experience
San Jose State University, 1956 -1988
Selected Publications
Serigraphy: Silk Screen Techniques for the Artist, Prentice‑Hall, 1965‑1996.
Activities: Learning to Use the Macintosh Computer...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Underwater Study 3284
Located in Lawrence, NY
#1 of 8
archival pigment print
signed, numbered
Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first esta...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bosch
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Bosch" c. 1980 is an original etching with aquatint by American artist Peter Paone, b.1936. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 10/...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Etching
"NEW HORIZON" LARGE MID CENTURY MODERN ABSTRACT
Located in San Antonio, TX
Michael Frary
(1918 - 2005)
Austin Artist
Image Size: 51 x 35
Frame Size: 59 x 43
Medium: Oil
Dated 1970
"New Horizon"
Biography
Michael Frary (1918 - 2005)
Michael Frary was born in...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Tamas The Power of Bad
By Willy Pogany
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLY POGANY (1882 - 1955)
TAMAS THE POWER OF BAD, c. 1940.
Etching, signed and titled and numbered 50 in pencil. Image 12 x 9 inches. Sheet 14 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches. Generally goo...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Original Inter-europäische Zusammenarbeit für bessere Lebensbedingungen poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. ERP European Reunification Program, Inter-europaische Zusammenarbeit fur bessere Lebenbedingungen. Mounted on acid free archival linen. Lithography Kühn & Zoon, Rotterda...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Central Park in Fall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown
Title: Central Park in Fall
Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed lower right
Image Size: 17.5 x 25 inches
Frame Size: 28 x 35 inches
Watercolor of The Mall in Centra...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Underwater Study 2617
Located in Lawrence, NY
#5 of 8
archival pigment print
signed, numbered
Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first esta...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Woman Baking, Redbook Illustration, Mid - Century
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right, unframed - Interior Illustration for Redbook Magazine
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Gouache
1938 Charles E. Pont 'Heave up!'
By Charles Ernest Pont
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 9.25 x 9 inches ( 23.495 x 22.86 cm )
Image Size: 5 x 6.75 inches ( 12.7 x 17.145 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A: Mint
Additional Details: Part of AMERICAN BLOCK PRIN...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Expanding
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Expandingr" 2001 is a original color lithograph on wove paper by American artist Betty Rees Heredia A.K.A Betty Snyder Shapiro,...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Esther Williams by Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda, C Print
Underwater — Mid-century Modern
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Underwater', 1948, chiaroscuro wood engraving, edition 12. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '3/12' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, in dark brown and warm black, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/2 inch), in excellent condition. Scarce.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929 and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters.
After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter, to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium, which he learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’
In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later, Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’, were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’, and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’ was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’
At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951.
Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’.
An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Natalie S. Henry, Skipping (Children Skipping Rope)
Located in New York, NY
Signed and titled in pencil. Henry is known for her images of children and her Chicago environment. She frequently showed with the Chicago Society of Artists.
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Linocut
Beauty Study 1183
Located in Lawrence, NY
#2 of 8
signed and dated
Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in t...
Category
2010s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Landscape with buildings and trees
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with buildings and trees
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930's
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9 3/8 x 1...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Pamela Bianco, Fruit Piece
Located in New York, NY
Pamela Bianco achieve success as an artist in Britain while still a child. This accomplishment resulted in the family coming to the United States where ...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
The King of the Masque
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The King of the Masque" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on wove paper by American artist Robert Raymond Anderson, 1...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Animated Discourse" WPA Mid-Century American Scene Modernism Realism Figurative
Located in New York, NY
"Animated Discourse" WPA Mid-Century American Scene Modernism Realism Figurative.
Chris Ritter (American, 1906 – 1976) "Animated Discourse," 19 x 24 (sight). Watercolor on paper. Si...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
American Modern Artist Jack Hooper "Trees and Bulls" Abstract Landscape Painting
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Trees and Bulls" - Mexico
1-12-1993
Acrylic and conte crayon on rag paper
30.75"x21.25" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
*Custo...
Category
1990s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Conté, Acrylic
Untitled (Portrait of a young woman - wife of the artist)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a self portrait of a young woman who is the wife of the artist.
Francisco Souto was born in Venezuela, and received a BFA from Herron School of Art and a MFA from The Ohio ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Underwater Study 2645: American Champion Sprinter Tyree Washington
Located in Lawrence, NY
#1 of 8
signed and dated
Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in t...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
“Bouquet in Porcelain Pitcher”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board painting of a bouquet in porcelain pitcher by the American artist Nicholai Cikovsky. Signed lower right. In good condition. In contemporary gold leaf frame 27 b...
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
23rd and 2nd Ave painting by Ben Benn 1924
By Ben Benn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Benn, Polish/American (1884 - 1983)
Title: 23rd and 2nd Ave, New York City
Year: 1924
Medium: Oil on board, signed l.r.
Size: 14 x 11.5 in. (35.56 x 29.21 cm)
Frame Size:...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
1939 George Raab 'Portal in Weimar'
By George Raab
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 9.25 x 9 inches ( 23.495 x 22.86 cm )
Image Size: 8 x 6 inches ( 20.32 x 15.24 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A: Mint
Additional Details: This piece derives from the 19...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Trumpet Tree #37, from the Botanica Series
Located in Lawrence, NY
#3 of 12
signed and dated
Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in ...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mid Century Fruit Still Life Gouache Painting Bay Area Artist
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper and Ruth Opper
Fruit Still Life
c. 1950's
Gouache on Paper
12" x 18", tiger maple wood frame 18.5"x1"x22.25"
unsigned
Early ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
November (These boots are made for walking)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A black and white photograph of a young woman in boots.
Brinley Ribando is a painter, printmaker, and photographer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
Category
2010s American Modern Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
'Eyes for the Night' — Mid-century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Eyes for the Night', color lithograph, 1948, edition 35, Fine and Looney 261. Signed, dated, and titled, and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. A fine impression with fresh colors, on c...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
1950s "Waiting" Mid Century Female Nude Ink Drawing NYC Artist
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Waiting"
c.1950s
Ink on paper
14" x 16.5" unframed
Signed and dated 1953 in pencil lower right
Came from artist estate
*Custom framing available for additional charge. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Geno Pettit, Seated Figure
Located in New York, NY
Seated Figure by Geno (sometimes Genoi) Pettit, made in 1945, is a wonderfully 'moderne' image. The woman is wearing a roman-inspired blouse or dress and is shown against a yellow/green, chartreuse background. There is the feeling she is about to lead an ancient procession at any moment!
Pettit and her husband, Guy McCoy...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Sleeping Wolves
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sleeping Wolves" 1970 is an original color lithograph on B.F.K Rives paper by noted Italian/American artist Beniamino Benevenuto Bufano, 1890-1970. It is hand signed and numbered 81/100 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 12.35 x 11.35 inches, framed size is 23.75 x 21.5 inches. it is beautifully custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano was born in San-Fele, Italy on Oct. 14, 1889. At age three Bufano's family brought him to NYC where he spent his childhood and was educated by private tutors. He studied at the ASL in NYC from 1913-15, the pupil of James L. Fraser, Herbert Adams, and Paul Manship. He came to San Francisco in 1915 to work on a sculpture for the PPIE. For awhile he worked in the studio of coppersmith Dirk van Erp. He then traveled extensively for four years in France, Italy, India, and China. After returning to San Francisco in 1921, he remained there the rest of his life except for visits to the Orient and Europe. Always a radical, he lost his teaching position at San Francisco Institute of Art in 1923 because he was too modern for the conservative faculty. He later taught at UC Berkeley and the CCAC (1964-65). Henry Miller wrote of him, "He will outlive our civilization and probably be better known, better understood, both as a man and artist, five thousand years hence." His work, simple in style and monumental in scale, includes smoothly rounded animals in granite and icons sheathed in stainless steel. Only five feet tall, Bufano was a controversial, free spirit until his death in San Francisco on Aug. 16, 1970. Member: SFAA; NSS; American Artists Congress. Exh: Whitney Museum (NYC), 1917; Arden Gallery...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Cadillac Automobile Show)
By Evelyn Harper
Located in New York, NY
Evelyn Harper, "Untitled: Cadillac Automobile Show" , Mixed Media on Illustration Board, 15 x 10, Mid-20th Century, 1948
Colors: Black and White
A 15 x 10 Black and White Illustrat...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Illustration Board, Pen
1960s "Leaning Over" Gouache & Oil Pastel Bay Area Figurative Movement
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
"Leaning Over"
c. 1960s
Gouache and charcoal on newsprint
Unsigned
18" x 12" framed silver bamboo frame black mat 19.25"x25.25"
Gloria...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Oil Pastel
Andy Burgess, Concrete Desert House, Acrylic on Canvas over Panel
By Andy Burgess
Located in London, GB
Signed, dated recto
Acrylic on Canvas over Panel
76.2 x 101.6 cm
30 x 40 in.
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Andy Burgess is known for his renditions of modernist and mid-century architecture, panoramic cit...
Category
2010s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
Untitled (Nude in front of light house, Lake Erie)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Nude in front of light house, Lake Erie)
Oil on board, 1970
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Estate Stamp verso, No. 359 (see photo)
Condition: Original untouched "...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Alfred Bendiner, Baccaloni in Rosenkavalier
Located in New York, NY
The Italian opera singer, Salvatore Baccaloni (1900-1969) often took comic roles. He worked with several opera companies in Philadelphia between 1951 and 1966. Bendiner was a world t...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of Albert Schweitzer.
Located in Storrs, CT
Portrait of Albert Schweitzer. Etching. 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 (sheet 16 1/4 x 14). Illustrated: Beall, American Prints in the Library of Congress, page 205....
Category
1950s American Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
'Farmer with Cows' original Regionalist painting on board Midwestern landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This early work by American artist Sylvia Spicuzza is an excellent example of Regionalism: in the foreground, a farmer in blue stands before a herd of cattle. Beyond the fence of the...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Paul Gattuso, (Abstraction)
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address on the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
"White Calf, " Farm Genre Scene Original Lithograph by Thomas Hart Benton
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"White Calf" is an original lithograph print by Thomas Hart benton. It features the image of a man milking a cow while her calf lays down in front. Benton's breathtaking way of rende...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Gold and Blue Gun" 1970s Original Portrait Silkscreen
Located in Arp, TX
Artist unknown
"Gold and Blue Gun"
c. 1970s
Silkscreen on paper
Image size 21.25"x17" paper size 26"x40" unframed $350
Unsigned
*Listed price reflects custom framing selected by sell...
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Tom
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Tom" c.1990 is an intaglio with collage on paper by noted artist Kurt Kemp, b.1957. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Intaglio
Audience
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Audience" 1983 is a watercolor on hand made paper by noted artist Ruth Weisberg, born 1942. It is hand signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwor...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Isadora Duncan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Isadora Duncan
Graphite with grey wash on paper mounted to cardstock
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Provenance: Charlotte Bergman, f...
Category
1910s American Modern Art
Materials
Graphite
Bahamas Speed Week by Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days.
Currency fluctuations may cause the price to change.
This is a contemporary print from the Getty Archive using Slim Aarons negatives.
Please contact the gallery for information about other print sizes.
All prints feature a Slim Aarons blindstamp, and are accompanied by a Slim Aarons Certificate of Authentication issued by Getty.
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
"Bahamas Speed Week...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda, C Print
Yacht Races, Grand Lake, Colorado, 1933, Sailboats, Black & White lithograph
Located in Denver, CO
Yacht Races, Grand Lake, Colorado, vintage 1933 original signed lithograph by Arnold Ronnebeck (1885-1947). Numbered 23 in an edition of 25 prints. Black and white coastal, marine subject. Presented in an archival mat, outer dimensions measure 20 x 16 ⅛ inches. Image size measures 13 ¾ x 9 ⅛ inches (sight). Custom framing services are available.
Print is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report.
Provenance: Estate of Arnold Ronnebeck
About the Artist:
Modernist sculptor, lithographer and museum administrator, Rönnebeck was a noted member of European and American avant-garde circles in the early twentieth century before settling in Denver, Colorado, in 1926.
After studying architecture at the Royal Art School in Berlin for two years beginning in 1905, he moved to Paris in 1908 to study sculpture with Aristide Maillol and Émile-Antoine Bourdelle. While there he met and befriended American modernist painter, Marsden Hartley, of whom he sculpted a bronze head that was exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in Paris in 1912 and the following year at Hartley’s solo show of paintings at Alfred Stieglitz’s Gallery 291 in New York. A frequent guest of Gertrude Stein’s Saturday "evenings" in Paris, she described Rönnebeck as "charming and always invited to dinner," along with Pablo Picasso, Mabel Dodge (Luhan) and Charles Demuth.
After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Rönnebeck returned to Germany where he served as an officer in the German Imperial Army on the front lines. Twice wounded, including in the Battle of Marne in France, Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded him the Iron Cross. During the war Hartley fell in love with Rönnebeck’s cousin, Lieutenant Karl von Freyburg, who was killed in combat. As a tribute to Freyburg, Hartley created Portrait of a German Officer (1914) now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
After the war Rönnebeck traveled in Italy with German writer, Max Sidow, and German poet, Theodor Daubler, doing a series of drawings of Positano and the Amalfi Coast that formed the basis for his lithographs on the subject. The death of his finacée, the young American opera singer Alice Miriam in 1922 and his own family’s increasing financial problems in post-World War I Germany led him to immigrate to the United States in 1923. After living briefly with Miriam’s family in Washington, DC, he moved to New York where he became part of the avant-garde circle around Alfred Stieglitz. His essay, "Through the Eyes of a European Sculptor," appeared in the catalog for the Anderson Gallery exhibition, "Alfred Stieglitz Presents Seven Americans: 159 Paintings, Photographs & Things, Recent & Never Publicly Shown, by Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth, Paul Strand, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz."
In New York Rönnebeck began producing Precisionist-style lithographs of the city’s urban landscapes which he termed "living cubism." Some of them were reproduced in Vanity Fair magazine. Through Stieglitz he met Erhard Weyhe head of the Weyhe Gallery who, with its director Carl Zigrosser, arranged Rönnebeck’s first solo American exhibition in May 1925 at the gallery in New York. Comprising some sixty works – prints, drawings and sculpture – the show subsequently traveled on a thirteen-month tour of major American cities. Until the end of his life, the gallery represented him, along with other American artists Adolf Dehn, Wanda Gag, Rockwell Kent, J.J. Lankes, Louis Lozowick, Reginald Marsh and John Sloan.
In the summer of 1925, as the guest of Mabel Dodge Luhan, Rönnebeck first saw Taos, New Mexico, which Marsden Hartley had encouraged him to visit. It was there that he met his future wife, Louise Emerson, an easel painter and muralist. A year later they were married in New York before relocating to Denver. He served as director of the Denver Art Museum from 1926 to 1930 where he invited Marsden Hartley to lecture on Cézanne’s art in 1928. Rönnebeck fostered the development of the museum’s collection of American Indian art and the curation of modernist art exhibitions. In addition to his work at the museum, he was professor of sculpture at the University of Denver’s College of Fine and Applied Arts from 1929 to 1935, and wrote a weekly art column in the Rocky Mountain News.
His best known Denver sculptures from the late 1920s in bronze, copper, stone, wood and terra cotta include a reredos, The Epiphany, at St. Martin’s Chapel; The History of Money (six panels) at the Denver National Bank; The Ascension at the Church of Ascension; and the William V. Hodges Family Memorial at Fairmount Cemetery. At the same time he did a series of terra cotta relief panels for La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the 1930s his bas-relief aluminum friezes of stylized Pueblo and Hopi Indian Kachina masks...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Henry Spanner, Beer
Located in New York, NY
This is among the very few prints known by Spanner. It's the epitome of joie de vivre. It is signed, numbered, and annotated 'Hand print,' in pencil. The numbering indicates an edit...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Christopher Street (abstract Greenwich Village cityscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). Christopher Street, 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15.5 x 20 inches. Window in matting measures 15 x 19 inches. Framed measurement: 23 x 30 inched. Bears fragment of original label affixed on verso. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet.
Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC
Exhibited: The American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition.
From the facade of The Waverly at Christopher is depicted One Christopher Street, the 16-story Art Deco residential building erected in 1931. It is not a casual coincidence that the structure appears in this cityscape: 1 Christopher Street is the subject. The original intention of this project was to transform the neighborhood, bring a bit of affluence and make a bid to rival the Upper West Side. Margules, a sensitive aesthete, understood how a massive piece of architecture such as One changes a neighborhood. Sound, scale and focal points are forever altered. A pedestrian's sense of depth and distance becomes pronounced. All of these factors contribute to the intent behind this image. Tall buildings disrupt the human scale, change the skyline and carve up space. In this piece, negative space conforms to the man-made geometries. Clouds become gems fixed in settings.
De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-American "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "[w]idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country". The New York Times critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium"
Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.[1] The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities" and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village.
Early Life
De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City. Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville. Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the Adler Family[11] and Bertha Kalich, his sister, Annette Margules, somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad Tondelayo (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo. Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion." His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others. A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found on the Museum of the City of New York website.
At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club. By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers.
As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope . Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later.
In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington. Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store. He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of Benjamin Benno).
Artistic career
In 1922, Margules began work as a police reporter for the City News Association of New York .Margules then considered himself something of an expert on art, and the painter Myron Lechay is said to have responded to some unsolicited analysis of his work with the remark "Since you seem to know so much about it, why don't you paint yourself?" This led to study with Lechay and a flurry of painting.
Margules' first show was in 1922 at Jane Heap's Little Review Gallery. Thereafter Margules began to participate in shows with a group including Stuart Davis, Jan Matulka, Buckminster Fuller (exhibiting depictions of his "Dymaxion house") in a gallery run by art-lover and restaurateur Romany Marie on the floor above her cafe.
Jane Heap, left, with Mina Loy and Ezra Pound
During the 1920s, Margules traveled outside of the country a number of times. In 1922, with the intent of reaching Bali, he took a job as a "'wiper on a tramp steamer where [he] played nursemaid to the engine." He reached Rotterdam before he turned back. He would return to Rotterdam shortly thereafter.
In 1927, Margules took a lengthy leave of absence from his day job as a police reporter in order to travel to Paris, where he "set up a studio in Montmartre's Place du Tertre, on the top floor of an almost deserted hotel, a shabby establishment, lacking both heat and running water." He studied at the Louvre and traveled to paint landscapes in provincial France and North Africa.
Margules also joined the "Noctambulist" movement and experimented with painting and showing his artwork in low light.Jonathan Cott wrote that:
the painter De Hirsch Margulies sat on the quays of the Seine and painted pictures in the dark. In fact, the first exhibition of these paintings, which could be seen only in a darkened room, took place in [ Walter Lowenfels'] Paris apartment.
Elaine de Kooning remarked that studying the works of the Noctambulists confirmed Margules' "direction toward the use of primary colors for perverse effects of heavy shadow."
It was also in Paris that Margules initially conceived his idea of "Time Painting", where a painting is divided into sectors, each representing a different time of day, with color choices meant to evoke that time of day.
In Paris, his social circle included Lowenfels, photographer Berenice Abbott, publisher Jane Heap, composer George Anthiel, sculptor Thelma Wood, painter André Favory, writer Norman Douglas, writer and editor George Davis, composer and writer Max Ewing, and writer Michael Fraenkel.
Upon his return to New York in 1929, Margules attended an exhibition of John Marin's paintings.
While at the exhibition, he "launched into an eloquent explanation of Marin to two nearby women", and was overheard by an impressed Alfred Stieglitz. The famous photographer and art promoter invited Margules to dine with his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and his assistant, painter Emil Zoler. Stieglitz thereafter became a friend and mentor to Margules, becoming for him "what Socrates was to his friends."
Alfred Stieglitz
Stieglitz introduced Margules to John Marin, who quickly became the most important painterly influence upon Margules. Elaine de Kooning later noted that Margules was "indebted to Marin and through Marin to Cézanne for his initial conceptual approach - for his constructions of scenes with no negative elements, for skies that loom with the impact of mountains." Margules himself said that Marin was his "father and ... academy." The admiration was by no means unreciprocated: Marin said that Margules was "an art lover with abounding faith and sincerity, with much intelligence and quick seeing." Stieglitz also introduced Margules to many other artistic and intellectual figures in New York.
With the encouragement of Alfred Stieglitz, Margules in 1936 opened a two-room gallery at 43 West 8th Street called "Another Place." Over the following two years there were fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and others, and the gallery was well-respected by the press. It was in this gallery that the painter James Lechay, Myron's brother, exhibited his first painting.
In 1936, Margules first saw recognition by major art museums when both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his works.
In 1942, Margules gave up working as a police reporter, and apparently dedicated himself thereafter solely to an artistic vocation.
"The Baron of Greenwich Village"[edit]
Margules made his mark not only as an artist, but also as an outsized personality known throughout Greenwich Village and beyond.
To local residents, Margules was known as the "Baron", after Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a prominent German Jewish philanthropist. Margules was easily recognizable by the beret he routinely wore over his long hair. Writer Charles Norman said that he "dressed with a flair for sloppiness."
He was said to "know everybody" in Greenwich Village, to the extent that when the novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was murdered, Margules was the first one the police sought to identify the body. Margules' letters show him interacting with art world figures such as Sacha Kolin, John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as with prominent figures outside the art world such as polymath Buckminster Fuller and writer Henry Miller.
Most of his friends and acquaintances found Margules a generous and voluble man, given to broadly emotionally expressive gestures and acts of kindness and loyalty. In 1929, he exhibited an example of this loyalty and fellow-feeling when he appeared in court to fight what the wrongful commitment of his friend, writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfuss, who appeared to have been a victim of an illicit attempt to block an inheritance.
The Greenwich Village chronicler Charles Norman described the bone-crushing hugs that Margules would routinely bestow on his friends and acquaintances, and speaks of the "persuasive theatricality" that Margules seemed to have inherited from his actor parents. Norman also wrote about Margules' routine acts of kindness, taking in homeless artists, constantly feeding his friends and providing the salvatory loan where needed. Norman also notes that Margules was blessed with a loud and good voice, and was apt to sing an operatic air without provocation.
The writer and television personality Alexander King said
I think the outstanding characteristics of my friend's personality are affirmation, emphasis, and overemphasis. He chooses to express himself predominantly in superlatives and the gestures which accompany his utterances are sometimes dangerous to life and limb. Of the bystanders, I mean.
King also spoke with affectionate amusement about Margules' pride in his cooking, speaking of how "if he should ever invite you to dinner, he may serve you a hamburger with onions, in his kitchen-living room, with such an air of gastronomic protocol, such mysterious hints and ogliing innuendoes, as if César Ritz and Brillat-Savarin had sneaked out, only a moment before, with his secret recipe in their pockets."
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