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Style: American Modern
Period: 1980s
Boy with Dog
Located in Columbia, MO
LARRY KANTNER
Boy with Dog
1980
Acrylic on canvas
52.5 x 40.5 inches
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic
Playground of Crockett Elementary School, Where I Attended Grades 1-7
By Frank Gohlke
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed in pencil, verso
16 x 20 inches, sheet
15 x 18.75 inches, image
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York ...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
William S. Burroughs (Stamped) (~48% OFF LIST PRICE, LIMITED TIME)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Robert Mapplethorpe
William S. Burroughs
Photograph, Silver Gelatin Print
Year: 1982
Size: 9.8 × 7.8 inches
Stamped verso
Accompanied by Radar, Basel, Edition C.L.A.G., 1982; Text in German
Gallery COA provided
Robert Mapplethorpe was born November 4, 1946, in Floral Park, New York. He left home in 1962 and enrolled at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, in 1963, where he studied painting and sculpture and received his B.F.A. in 1970. During this time, he met artist, poet, and musician Patti Smith. She encouraged his work and posed for numerous portraits when they lived together in Brooklyn and in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, a gathering place for artists, writers, and musicians in the early 1970s.
It was not Mapplethorpe’s original intention to be a photographer, and from 1970 to 1974, he mainly made assemblage constructions that incorporate images of men from pornographic magazines with found objects and painting. In order to create his own images for these collages, Mapplethorpe turned to photography, initially using a Polaroid SX...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
One Pistol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol began using the big-shot Polaroid camera in 1971 and continued using it religiously until his death in 1987. Despite the camera being discontinued in 1973, he continued t...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Polaroid
Headstand (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) - Exhibition Poster
By Keith Haring
Located in Paris, FR
Keith Haring
Headstand
Original vintage exhibition Poster printed in Screenprint
On thick paper
90 x 60 cm (c. 36 x 24 in)
INFORMATION: Official screenprint poster for the Haring e...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Andy Warhol - Halston Women's Wear Advertising Campaign Poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Paper Size: 23 x 28.75 inches
Edition Size Unknown
Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Original Serigraph poster designed for an in-store advertising campaign printed in 1982.
...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Unique Mixed Media on Handmade Paper with Gold Leaf Modernist Edition
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a unique mixed media edition of 50. on handmade paper with fabric, gold and other elements. Raised and educated in New York, Pat Hammerman is an ...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Andy Warhol - Halston fragrance and cosmetics Advertising Campaign Poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Paper Size: 23 x 28.75 inches
Edition Size Unknown
Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Original Serigraph poster designed for an in-store advertising campaign printed in 1982.
...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Dancing Animal Critters on a Top Hat, Bear, Frog, Owl, Crane Bird, Bee, Snail
Located in Miami, FL
Enter the whimsical world of famed children's book illustrators husband and wife team Alice and Martin Provensen. On top of a heavy tree trunk sits a...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Gouache
Andy Warhol - Halston Men's Wear Advertising Campaign Poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Paper Size: 23 x 28.75 inches
Edition Size Unknown
Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Original Serigraph poster designed for an in-store advertising campaign printed in 1982.
...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Milk Weed, Flowers Mixed Media Collage Monotype Floral Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Mixed Media collage Assemblage painting and or monoprint or monotype on BFK Rives French art paper. It depicts a wild profusion of bold colored flowers
Education
1976 Stanley Hayter Atelier 17 Workshop, Paris, France
1975 Hugh Stoneman Workshop, London, England
1974-85 Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NYC
1972-74 Certificate of Completion in Fine Arts Graphics, The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
1971-72 The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
1970-71 Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT
it was the League where Martha Bloom...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Andy Warhol - Halston Women's accessories Advertising Campaign Poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Paper Size: 23 x 28.75 inches
Edition Size Unknown
Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Original Serigraph poster designed for an in-store advertising campaign printed in 1982.
...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Americana Landscape Oil on Canvas Painting Signed P. Paul, Framed
Located in Plainview, NY
An elegant oil on canvas landscape painting featuring a lake view in a paradisiac environment. The painting is finely framed in custom giltwood frame. A wonderful addition to any liv...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"The Glorious Flight - Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot" - Children's Book
Located in Miami, FL
Study for "The Glorious Flight - Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot"; 1983; Gouache on Illustration Board; 14.5" x 13.75"; Signed Lower Right; Unframed.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alice Rose[1] Provensen (née Twitchell; August 14, 1918[2] – April 23, 2018[3]) and Martin Provensen...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Board, Gouache
Beach at Malcesine
By Nell Blaine
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nell Blaine, painter of still lifes and landscapes in brilliant colors, created abstract work that gives the appearance of being done in a carefree, totally lighthearted manner but i...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
"Side Stretch Nude 2" 1984 Figure Gouache and Pastel American Modernist
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Side Stretch Nude 2"
9/7/1984
Gouache and pastel on paper
20"x26" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
In this modernist masterpiece, Jack Hooper deftly navi...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
Figurative Study In Sausalito by Patricia Gren Hayes Berkeley Figurative School
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative Study In Sausalito by Patricia Gren Hayes Berkeley Figurative School
Modern painting of a nude woman with the Sausalito landscape in the background by American painter, P...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flowers, Abstract Silkscreen by Knox Martin
By Knox Martin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Flowers 6 by Knox Martin, Colombian/American (1923)
Date: circa 1981
Screenprint on Heavy Hand-Made Paper, signed in pencil
Edition of AP 21/40
Image Size: 28 x 24 inches
Size: 36 x 32 in. (91.44 x 81.28 cm)
Printed by American Atelier...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Chicago Scene Modernist Architectural Lithograph, Nevada Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jim McCormick was born in Chicago in 1936. He attended the University of Tulsa where he received a bachelor’s degree in art in 1958, then a M.A. in paint...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Seated Figure
Located in Rockland, ME
Sally Michel Biography
American, 1902-2003
Sally Michel Avery was an American painter known for her lyrical depictions of everyday life. Though she used techniques and stylized form...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Swimmer / Pool Diver - Offset Lithograph (Olympic Games, Los Angeles 1984)
Located in Paris, FR
David HOCKNEY
Swimmer, Pool Diver, 1982
Offset Lithograph
Signature printed in the plate
On paper 91 x 61 cm (36 x 24 inch)
Made for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, 1984
REFERENC...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Modern Abstracted Still-Life with Antique Coffee Grinder by Anthony Rappa
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern Abstracted Still-Life with Antique Coffee Grinder by Anthony Rappa
Modern textural still-life by California artist Anthony Rappa (America...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Untitled (Hot Air Baloon Ascent and Spectators)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Hot Air Balloon Ascent and Spectators)
Sepia wash on wove paper, 1985
Signed and dated in ink lower right corner
From the artist's 1985 sketchbook
Probably a view of Cape C...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Ink
Modern Portrait of Young Girl "Cathy" Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern portrait of young girl named Cathy Gutman by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932), 1982.
Signed and dated lower left corner and on verso
Provenance: Purchased as part of larger collection of artist's work from the estate of Larry Miller fine Art
Unframed.
Canvas size: 18"H x 16"W.
Patricia Gren Hayes (American, b. 1932) is a Bay Area Figurative & Feminist Art Movement artist who studied at Winnipeg Public Art School in 1950. She received early recognition in Museum and Gallery competitions and exhibitions and was awarded a Special Education in Art recognition by the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Art, and was awarded a scholarship to the Banff College of Fine Art. Further studies were at The University of Manitoba.
She was a Member of Winnipeg Free Press Sketch Club and was a Cartoonist and paste-up for a French-English bi-weekly, in Eastern Canada;
She studied outdoor impressionism in New York in 1960; in 1962, attended The California College of Arts and Crafts, and in 1976 B.A., U.C. Berkeley where she studied under Elmer Bischoff, David Simpson, Joan Brown, Felix Ruvolo, Yolanda Lopez and Vincent Perez.
She started a freelance commercial art business in 1963; copyrighted a National Cartoon, 1976, and served as Exhibition Director for San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976-1978. She was a workshop instructor at the San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery, 1977-1985; and was Manager/Owner Stanton Art Gallery, Alameda, CA, 1976-1982.
Solo Exhibitions:
Berkeley Marina, 1974;
Oakland Center for The Visual Arts, "Images of Women", 1979
Group Exhibitions:
Oakland's Dept of Education, 1963, Studio One;
Alameda County Fair, 1975, 1976, 1978;
San Francisco Art Festival, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1978;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976, 1977, 1978;
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery Exhibition, award winner - 1970, 1977, 1978;
Hayward Bay Fair Art Festival, award winner - 1971;
Capricorn Assunder Gallery, 1973;
Oakland Art Festival, 1973, 1974;
Alameda Art Association, 1978;
El Cerrito...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Original pre-release 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original movie poster, Linen-backed original Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom pre-release. "Coming May 23rd, 1984.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the 1984 Steven Spielberg treasure-hunting action-adventure fantasy sequel ("If adventure has a name... It must be Indiana Jones."; "Trust him."
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Pistol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol began using the big-shot Polaroid camera in 1971 and continued using it religiously until his death in 1987. Despite the camera being discontinued in 1973, he continued t...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Polaroid
Yellow Cab Madison Square Garden
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Khawam’s first genre of paintings started in 1980 during the heights of the Superrealism movement in New York City where Khawam was the youngest among the group and in his first year...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic
William S. Burroughs (~38% OFF LIST PRICE, LIMITED TIME)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Robert Mapplethorpe
William S. Burroughs
Photograph
Year: 1982
Size: 9.8 × 7.8 inches
Edition C.L.A.G Carl Laszlo, Basel
Gallery COA provided
Robert Mapplethorpe was born November...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Urban Landscape The New "Hamms Brewery Blue" San Francisco Oil on Canvas 1981
Located in Soquel, CA
Urban Landscape "Hamms Brewery Blue" Building in San Francisco Oil on Canvas 1981
Bold Urban landscape featuring the TMG redesigned of the former Hamm's Brewery building by William (Bill) Jefferson (American, B-1956). Currently a New York artist.
Image, 55"H x 42.5"W x 2.5"D
After graduating from college ( BA in history), I moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in the arts. Again, I never stopped. San Francisco in the ‘70’s was a magical place, and was the perfect canvas for me. I began drawing, all of the time, everywhere. By 1980 I had begun translating my drawings into paintings.
By the time I moved to New York in 2007, my art had matured and my purpose was clear: I mean for my paintings to give the viewer a sense of calm, and wonder at the beauty of the world around us, and to serve as an antidote to the pain and suffering we all experience in life.
William Jefferson...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Red Line La Grange" Modern Abstract Monotype Collage
Located in Houston, TX
Red and blue tonal monotype abstract with collage paper. The work is signed and titled by the artist. The monotype is framed in a light wooden frame. Attached to the back of the piec...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Original Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph of Poet Allen Ginsberg in Yoga Pose
By Jan Herman
Located in Surfside, FL
Jan Herman, journalist, writer and photographer is an old-school journalist who got his start in San Francisco’s counterculture scene in the 1960s. A Brooklyn native and Queens College graduate.
While working at City Lights Books as the poet-publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti's assistant, Jan Herman founded Nova Broadcast Press and the little magazine San Francisco Earthquake (1967-1971), which published Beat, post-Beat and Fluxus writers and artists. Chief among them were William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Weissner, Wolf Vostell, Norman O. Mustill, Mary Beach, Claude Pélieu, Ferlinghetti, Ed Sanders...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Peter Grimes, signed lithograph by Will Barnet
By Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Will Barnet (American, 1911-2012)
Title: Peter Grimes
Year: 1983
Medium: Color Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: of 250
Image Size: 21 x 21 inches
Size: 30 ...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Interior With Mies" (B) - Interior Scene Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Chair - Oil
By Max Hayslette
Located in Soquel, CA
"Interior With Mies" (B) - Interior Scene with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Chair - Oil
Original painting in oil on canvas signed by Max Hayslette (American, b. 1929). Inviting interior...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Three Muses" 1987 Paint & Ink Nude American Modernist Jack Hooper
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Three Muses"
1987
Gouache and ink on paper
21.25"x15.5" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower left
In this minimalist composition on black paper, Jack Hooper expert...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Ink
"Side Stretch Nude 3" 1984 Figure Gouache and Pastel American Modernist
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Side Stretch Nude 3"
9/7/1984
Gouache and pastel on paper
20"x26" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
In this exemplary work of modernist art, Jack Hooper e...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
"Side Stretch Nude" 1984 Figure Gouache and Pastel American Modernist
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Side Stretch Nude"
9/7/1984
Gouache and pastel on paper
20"x26" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower left
In this intriguing modernist artwork, Jack Hooper's minim...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
Untitled Modern Abstract Figurative Monotype Collage
Located in Houston, TX
Blue tonal monotype figurative abstract with collage paper. The work is signed and titled by the artist. The monotype is framed in a light wooden frame. Attached to the back of the p...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art 1968/ 1983
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art 1968/ 1983
Off-set lithographic poster, 1983
Signed in ink by the artist in the bottom margin (see photo)
Poster celebrating the 15 year anniver...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
"Figures Laying with Shadows" 1986 American Modernist Jack Hooper Painting
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Figures Laying with Shadows"
December 1986
Paint on paper
9.5"x8" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower left
In this modernist masterpiece by Jack Hooper, two abstr...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paint, Paper
Joyce T. Nagel Monoprint "Spring/Daffodils" Signed Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
"Spring/Daffodils" captures the essence of the colors of spring and its meaning by choosing Daffodils, the first large common flower of the season that is so welcomed after a long hard mid-west winter. Flowers, also, are an iconic choice of subject matter for many artists from the Dutch Masters and their large vases of flowers to Alex Katz and his mammoth portraits of "flowers." Some of Manet's last paintings that were exquisitely rendered were of the common flowers lilacs and roses. Joyce Nagel...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Pioneer Bluffs in Spring Post Impressionist Landscape Painting Kansas Stormy Sky
Located in Denver, CO
Kansas landscape oil on canvas painting by Robert N. Sudlow (1920-2010) titled 'Pioneer Bluffs in Spring' painted in 1986. Presented in original frame measuring 50 1⁄4 x 46 1⁄2 x 5 1...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Debutants Drinks - Oversize signed limited edition
Located in London, GB
Debutant Drinks by Alain Le Garsmeur
Debutants and their friends pose for a photo, Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1983.
Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm
Printed in 2023
Archival Pi...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Original "Gone With The Wind" vintage movie poster 1980 excellent conditio
Located in Spokane, WA
Original GONE WITH THE WIND, U. S. 1 sheet Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, de Havilland, all-time movie classic! Conservation linen backed and ready to frame. Original issue fold marks professionally touched up. Excellent condition.
Film Description: Gone With the Wind, the classic 1939 Victor Fleming Civil War romantic melodrama epic ("The Greatest Motion Picture Ever Made!"; "In the New Screen splendor… The most magnificent picture ever!"; "David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's story of the Old South"; "Screen play by Sidney Howard") starring Clark Gable (in his nominated for Best Actor Academy Award role; "as Rhett Butler"), Vivien Leigh (in her Best Actress Academy Award winning role; "and presenting Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara"), Leslie Howard ("as Ashley Wilkes"), Olivia de Havilland (in her nominated for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award role; "as Melanie"), Hattie McDaniel ("as Mammy"), Thomas Mitchell ("as Gerald O'Hara"), Butterfly McQueen, Ann Rutherford ("as Carreen O'Hara"), George Reeves, Victor Jory, Jane Darwell, Ward Bond, Ona Munson ("as Belle Watling"), Yakima Canutt, Harry Davenport ("as Dr. Meade"), Carroll Nye ("as Frank Kennedy"), Laura Hope Crews ("as Aunt Pittypat"), Alicia...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Modernist Silkscreen Screenprint 'El Station, Interior' NYC Subway, WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
screenprint printed in color ink on wove paper. New York City subway station interior.
Anthony Velonis (1911 – 1997) was an American painter and designer born in New York City who helped introduce the public to silkscreen printing in the early 20th century.
While employed under the federal Works Progress Administration, WPA during the Great Depression, Velonis brought the use of silkscreen printing as a fine art form, referred to as the "serigraph," into the mainstream. By his own request, he was not publicly credited for coining the term.
He experimented and mastered techniques to print on a wide variety of materials, such as glass, plastics, and metal, thereby expanding the field. In the mid to late 20th century, the silkscreen technique became popular among other artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.
Velonis was born into a relatively poor background of a Greek immigrant family and grew up in the tenements of New York City. Early on, he took creative inspiration from figures in his life such as his grandfather, an immigrant from the mountains in Greece, who was "an ecclesiastical painter, on Byzantine style." Velonis attended James Monroe High School in The Bronx, where he took on minor artistic roles such as the illustration of his high school yearbook. He eventually received a scholarship to the NYU College of Fine Arts, into which he was both surprised and ecstatic to have been admitted. Around this time he took to painting, watercolor, and sculpture, as well as various other art forms, hoping to find a niche that fit. He attended NYU until 1929, when the Great Depression started in the United States after the stock market crash.
Around the year 1932, Velonis became interested in silk screen, together with fellow artist Fritz Brosius, and decided to investigate the practice. Working in his brother's sign shop, Velonis was able to master the silkscreen process. He reminisced in an interview three decades later that doing so was "plenty of fun," and that a lot of technology can be discovered through hard work, more so if it is worked on "little by little."
Velonis was hired by Mayor LaGuardia in 1934 to promote the work of New York's city government via posters publicizing city projects. One such project required him to go on a commercial fishing trip to locations including New Bedford and Nantucket for a fortnight, where he primarily took photographs and notes, and made sketches. Afterward, for a period of roughly six months, he was occupied with creating paintings from these records. During this trip, Velonis developed true respect and affinity for the fishermen with whom he traveled, "the relatively uneducated person," in his words.
Following this, Velonis began work with the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), an offshoot of the Civil Works Administration (CWA), where he was assigned to serve the different city departments of New York. After the formation of the federal Works Progress Administration, which hired artists and sponsored projects in the arts, he also worked in theater.
Velonis began working for the federal WPA in 1935. He kept this position until 1936 or 1938, at which point he began working in the graphic art division of the Federal Art Project, which he ultimately led. Under various elements of the WPA program, many young artists, writers and actors gained employment that helped them survive during the Depression, as well as contributing works that created an artistic legacy for the country.
When interviewed in December 1994 by the Library of Congress about his time in the WPA, Velonis reflected that he had greatly enjoyed that period, saying that he liked the "excitement" and "meeting all the other artists with different points of view." He also said in a later interview that "the contact and the dialogue with all those artists and the work that took place was just invaluable." Among the young artists he hired was Edmond Casarella, who later developed an innovative technique using layered cardboard for woodcuts.
Velonis introduced silkscreen printing to the Poster Division of the WPA. As he recalled in a 1965 interview: "I suggested that the Poster division would be a lot more productive and useful if they had an auxiliary screen printing project that worked along with them. And apparently this was very favorably received..."
As a member of the Federal Art Project, a subdivision of the WPA, Velonis later approached the Public Use of Arts Committee (PUAC) for help in "propagandizing for art in the parks, in the subways, et cetera." Since the Federal Art Project could not be "self-promoting," an outside organization was required to advertise their art more extensively. During his employment with the Federal Art Project, Velonis created nine silkscreen posters for the federal government.
Around 1937-1939 Velonis wrote a pamphlet titled "Technical Problems of the Artist: Technique of the Silkscreen Process," which was distributed to art centers run by the WPA around the country. It was considered very influential in encouraging artists to try this relatively inexpensive technique and stimulated printmaking across the country.
In 1939, Velonis founded the Creative Printmakers Group, along with three others, including Hyman Warsager. They printed both their own works and those of other artists in their facility. This was considered the most important silkscreen shop of the period.
The next year, Velonis founded the National Serigraph Society. It started out with relatively small commercial projects, such as "rather fancy" Christmas cards that were sold to many of the upscale Fifth Avenue shops...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Lt. Ed. Flower & Friendship Exhibition Poster: "...To have a friend takes time"
Located in New York, NY
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Poppy poster, with Friendship Quote, 1987
"Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - it is so small - we haven't time- and to see takes time, like to have a fr...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Happy Neighbours by Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
Happy Neighbours by Alain Le Garsmeur
An African American family relaxing outside their house in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, USA - August 1984.
Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 10...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Rosemary" Berkeley Figurative School by Patricia Gren Hayes 1980
Located in Soquel, CA
"Rosemary" Berkeley Figurative School by Patricia Gren Hayes 1980
A large scale portrait of a blond woman by Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). The model is in front of a window, with h...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lithograph Made with String by Paula Clendenin
Located in Larchmont, NY
Paula Clendenin (American, b. 1949)
Untitled, 1983
Lithograph
Sight: 30 x 22 1/2 in.
Framed: 44 3/4 x 34 3/4 in.
Numbered, titled, dated and signed bottom: 1/15 / "The Things That Matter" / 83
Artist Paula Clendenin was born June 22, 1949, in Cedar Grove, Kanawha County. She has earned national acclaim for her paintings: richly colored, textured shapes that merge West Virginia’s mountain...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival original 1983 vintage poster. Archival linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. ...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Vintage C Print "Of Time and Change" Boulders on a Sea Shore
By Sonja Bullaty
Located in Surfside, FL
1981, Chromogenic Print. It is supposed to be signed lower right recto but has not been examined out of frame.
Provenance: Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York; ARCO Chemical Company, Newtown Square, PA.
Sonja Bullaty (October 17, 1923 - October 5, 2000) was a Jewish American photographer. Bullaty is known for her "lyrical composition" and strong use of color during her fifty-year collaboration with her husband, Angelo Lomeo. Bullaty and Lomeo's photographs appeared in LIFE, Time and Audubon magazines and journal.They have both exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the George Eastman House, UMPRUM Museum in Prague, in the Nikon House galleries and other venues.
Bullaty was born in Prague to a Jewish banking family. Her family gave her a camera when she turned fourteen. Since Bullaty had been forced to leave school at the time, the camera was a "consolation gift." When Bullaty was eighteen, she was deported by the Nazis to Poland, where she was kept in the Lodz ghetto, and then later taken to Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen concentration camps. During a death march near Dresden, she and a friend successfully hid in a barn and were able to escape and return to Prague. When she got back to her home city, she discovered that no one else in her family had survived the Holocaust.
Bullaty, "her head shaved," saw and answered an advertisement to be the helper to Czech photographer, Josef Sudek. As his assistant, she mixed chemicals for the darkroom, organized his negatives and learned from his sense of composition.[1] Sudek called her his "apprentice-martyr." Sudek's work often focused on the Czech landscape and windows, such as in the series The Windows of My Studio (1940-1954). Bullaty also photographed windows, but unlike Sudek, who photographed his own windows looking out, Bullaty photographed windows looking into buildings. Bullaty published a book, Sudek (1978), about her mentor, and it was the first publication of his work in the West.
Bullaty found work with a photographer on her third day in New York. Also in 1947, she met Angelo Lomeo. They were brought together when she was inquiring about a darkroom in a building he managed. Lomeo was intrigued by Bullaty's accent and went to see her. They started photographing together a year later, traveling and sharing resources; during their time together, they became close. Bullaty and Lomeo were married in 1951. Later, when she was married, she and her husband would visit Sudek and bring him photography supplies. They visited him in Czechoslovakia "almost yearly." In 1971, she helped mount an exhibition of Sudek's work in New York.
As photographers, Bullaty and Lomeo started using studio cameras...
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1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
'The Pimp' — Graphic Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fritz Eichenberg, 'The Pimp', wood engraving, 1980, artist's proof before the edition. Signed in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 3/16 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 12 x 9 3/4 inches (305 x 248 mm); sheet size 18 x 14 inches (457 x 356 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990) was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion, social justice, and nonviolence.
Eichenberg was born to a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany, where the destruction of World War I helped to shape his anti-war sentiments. He worked as a printer's apprentice and studied at the Municipal School of Applied Arts in Cologne and the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, where he studied under Hugo Steiner-Prag. In 1923 he moved to Berlin to begin his career as an artist, producing illustrations for books and newspapers. In his newspaper and magazine work, Eichenberg was politically outspoken and sometimes wrote and illustrated his reporting.
In 1933, the rise of Adolf Hitler drove Eichenberg, who was a public critic of the Nazis, to emigrate with his wife and children to the United States. He settled in New York City, where he lived most of his life. He worked in the WPA Federal Arts Project and was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists.
In his prolific career as a book illustrator, Eichenberg portrayed many forms of literature but specialized in works with elements of extreme spiritual and emotional conflict, fantasy, or social satire. Over his long career, Eichenberg was commissioned to illustrate more than 100 classics by publishers in the United States and abroad, including works by renowned authors Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Poe, Swift, and Grimmelshausen. He also wrote and illustrated books of folklore and children's stories.
Eichenberg was a long-time contributor to the progressive magazine The Nation, his illustrations appearing between 1930 and 1980. Eichenberg’s work has been featured by such esteemed publishers as The Heritage Club, Random House, Book of the Month Club, The Limited Editions Club, Kingsport Press, Aquarius Press, and Doubleday.
Raised in a non-religious family, Eichenberg had been attracted to Taoism as a child. Following his wife's unexpected death in 1937, he turned briefly to Zen Buddhist meditation, then joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1940. Though he remained a Quaker until his death, Eichenberg was also associated with Catholic charity work through his friendship with Dorothy Day...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled (Night Club)
Located in Chicago, IL
A lively nightclub scene by Chicago, African-American artist William Carter.
Born in St. Louis, MO in 1909, William Carter studied at the Art Institu...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Transection w/ Architectural Forms, Geometrical Figurative Abstract Acrylic
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Transection with Architectural Forms, c. 1980s
Acrylic and graphite on board
12 x 20 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract ...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Maze, 20th Century Geometric Figurative Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Maze, 1982
Acrylic on cardboard
Signed and dated upper right
7 x 9.5 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting.
Clar...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic
Modernist Watercolor Painting "Passages in Darkness" NYC Businessmen
By Elinore Schnurr-Colflesh
Located in Surfside, FL
Schnurr has an art studio in Long Island City, Queens, New York.
Over the years she has exhibited widely. Her most recent solo shows were at the H. Pelham Curtis Gallery at the New Canaan Library in New Canaan, Connecticut and the Dougherty Gallery at Crescent Grill in Long Island City, both in 2014; in 2011 she
was one of four artists representing the United States in Nordart 2011 at Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Budelsdorf, Germany. Previous solo exhibitions were at the Atlanta Art...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Martha's Vineyard Vintage Signed Color C Print Photograph
By Marna Clarke
Located in Surfside, FL
20X 16 sheet. signed, dated and titled. Deaccessioned from the Readers Digest magazine corporate collection.
MARNA CLARKE
EDUCATION
BA degree in mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Studied Photography at Hartford Art School; University of Connecticut, Storrs; and International Center of Photography, New York City
GRANTS
Individual Artists Grant, Connecticut Commission on the Arts (1987)
COLLECTIONS
Aetna Insurance Company, Hartford, CT
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Reader’s Digest, Pleasantville, New York
Sol LeWitt Collection, Chester, CT
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Feature Shoot
2014 Huffington Post, Arts & Culture
2010 Our World, PhotoAlliance, San Francisco, CA (2010)
West Marin Review (2008)
For Kids’ Sake, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA (1985)
The Best of Photojournalism/10, Running Press (1985)
New American Nudes, Morgan & Morgan (1981)
PHOTOGRAPHY-RELATED WORK
Adjunct Instructor of Photography, Hartford Art School, U. of Hartford (1991, 1987-88)
Regular contributor (Profile feature), Hartford Monthly magazine (1988)
Regular contributor to Northeast (the Sunday magazine of The Hartford Courant) Work also
appeared in Connecticut Magazine and New England Monthly (1982-85)
Board of Directors, CT Art Directors Club (1984-85)
Internship at Light Gallery in NYC (1980)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Keeping the Channel Open, Annex Gallery, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA (2017-18)
Home exhibition at SFO Airport, one of 14 finalists (2018)
Seeing Red exhibition, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA (2018) (Juried by Ann Jastrab)
Annual Juried Show, Marin Society of Artists (2017) First Place
Tine As We Know It, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA (2015-2016). Solo exhibition.
Mini Show, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA (2015)
Geography of Hope, Pt Reyes...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
City Evening, Large Scale Whiteline Woodcut New York City at Night ed. 25
By Aline Feldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Aline Feldman was born in 1928 and grew up in Kansas. She studied design and printmaking at Washington University in St. Louis under Werner Drewes and Fred Becker, respectively. She studied painting at Indiana University...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Tribe of Benjamin, Large Judaica Mixed Media Collage Painting
By Archie Rand
Located in Surfside, FL
Tribe of Benjamin, Biblical mural with wolf. I believe this is a study for a stained glass window. Untitled, mixed media on paper, signed lower left, inscribed "To my dear friend Dav...
Category
1980s American Modern Art
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media
American Modern art for sale on 1stDibs.
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