Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA)
Founded in 1962, the Art Dealers Association of America is a vetted community of more than 180 top-tier galleries across the United States. Working with these member galleries, ADAA appraisers offer assessment services for artworks spanning from the Renaissance to the present day. The ADAA also arranges public forums on important art-related topics and hosts The Art Show, presented each year at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, which stands out among art fairs for its acclaimed selection of curated booths — many of which are one-artist exhibitions.to
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Item Ships From: Texas
Snowman with Black Hat
By Gail Norfleet
Located in Dallas, TX
Gail Norfleet earned her BFA at The University of Texas at Austin, and her MFA at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Among others, she has had solo exhibitions in Dallas at The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
Thresholds 21
By David Collins
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York, and has exhi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype, Paper
Rollover Pass
By David Everett
Located in Dallas, TX
David Everett was born in Beaumont, Texas, and received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from The University of Texas in Austin. Valley House began showing his multi-articulated, painted w...
Category
1990s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Asunder 4
By David Collins
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins has an ongoing interest in space and memory. Many of Collins’ memories relate to his family’s history in inventing Cold War era technology. Personal recollections of sp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype, Paper
Asunder 13
By David Collins
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins was raised in Dallas, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
Untitled
By Barnaby Fitzgerald
Located in Dallas, TX
A Professor of painting at Southern Methodist University in Dallas since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy before receiving a Magistero degree in printmaking at t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
Veiled Glance
By Barnaby Fitzgerald
Located in Dallas, TX
A Professor of painting at Southern Methodist University in Dallas since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy before receiving a Magistero degree in printmaking at t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
La bouteille
By Laurent Schkolnyk
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a three-plate color mezzotint, edition 74/90.
The mat dimensions are 20 x 16 inches.
Signed "Schkolnyk" at lower right.
Category
20th Century Art Deco Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Barcham Green Portfolio
By Sherrie Levine
Located in Houston, TX
Barchman Green Portfolio, 1986
Suite of five etchings
31 x 22 1/2” each
ed. 25
Framed
Category
20th Century Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Slip Stream 10
By David Collins
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York, and has exhi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
Lunch in the Studio
By Gail Norfleet
Located in Dallas, TX
Dallas artist Gail Norfleet is best known for her color monotypes, paintings, collages, and paintings on glass. Norfleet earned her BFA at The University of Texas, Austin, and her MFA at Southern Methodist University. Among others, she has had solo exhibitions in Dallas at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary and the former Delahunty and DW Galleries.
Gail’s studio and the studios where she teaches serve as the settings for her recent body of work titled "The Studio." The studio is a rich visual environment that has inspired artists for centuries. Gail’s studio is strung with brightly colored Mexican papel picado...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Floating
By Gail Norfleet
Located in Dallas, TX
Gail Norfleet earned her BFA at The University of Texas at Austin, and her MFA at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Among others, she has had solo exhibitions in Dallas at The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
Asunder 11
By David Collins
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York, and has exhi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype, Paper
Asunder 12
By David Collins
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York, and has exhibited...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
Barbican
By David Everett
Located in Dallas, TX
David Everett was born in Beaumont, Texas, and received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from The University of Texas in Austin. In 1978, Everett was awarded a Faculty Travel Grant from So...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut, Paper
Asunder 1
By David Collins
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins was raised in Dallas, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Asunder 5
By David Collins
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins was raised in Dallas, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
One Hundred Fifty Feet Down
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, wrote about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Asunder 9
By David Collins
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins was raised in Dallas, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
Sun on the Kitchen Floor
By Coreen Mary Spellman
Located in Dallas, TX
Category
1940s Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Whistle
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Fossil Ship
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Spindles
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1980s Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
154 Foot Sculpture That Never Was
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Rag Paper, Etching
Eagle's Nest
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (The Living Arts, June 13, 2000, p. B2)
Valton Tyler was born in 1944 in Texas, where "the industrial world of oil refineries made a long-lasting impression on Valton as a very young child living in Texas City." (Reynolds, p. 25) After leaving Texas City, Valton made his way to Dallas, where he briefly enrolled at the Dallas Art Institute, but found it to be too social and commercial for his taste. After Valton's work was introduced to Donald Vogel (founder of Valley House Gallery), "Vogel arranged for Tyler to use the printmaking facilities in the art department of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where the young artist essentially taught himself several demanding printmaking techniques. 'It was remarkable,' Vogel says. 'Not only did he learn complicated etching methods, but he was able to express himself powerfully in whatever medium he explored.' Vogel became the publisher of Tyler's prints. Among them, the artist made editions of some 50 different images whose sometimes stringy abstract forms and more solid, architecturally arresting elements became the precursors of his later, mature style." (Gomez, Raw Vision #35, p. 36)
"Eagle’s Nest" is Plate Number 37, and is reproduced in "The First Fifty Prints: Valton Tyler" with text by Rebecca Reynolds, published for Valley House Gallery by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas, 1972.
In "The First Fifty Prints," Reynolds provides the following quote from the artist regarding this print:
“The structure on the right is an architectural symbol for an eagle. It is also like a machine that is igniting the shape on the left. Below, the egg that is coming out of the chute is a child which will evolve into another architectural eagle...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Front Elevation of Section 17
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (The Living Arts, June 13, 2000, p. B2)
Valton Tyler was born in 1944 in Texas, where "the industrial world of oil refineries made a long-lasting impression on Valton as a very young child living in Texas City." (Reynolds, p. 25) After leaving Texas City, Valton made his way to Dallas, where he briefly enrolled at the Dallas Art Institute, but found it to be too social and commercial for his taste. After Valton's work was introduced to Donald Vogel (founder of Valley House Gallery), "Vogel arranged for Tyler to use the printmaking facilities in the art department of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where the young artist essentially taught himself several demanding printmaking techniques. 'It was remarkable,' Vogel says. 'Not only did he learn complicated etching methods, but he was able to express himself powerfully in whatever medium he explored.' Vogel became the publisher of Tyler's prints. Among them, the artist made editions of some 50 different images whose sometimes stringy abstract forms and more solid, architecturally arresting elements became the precursors of his later, mature style." (Gomez, Raw Vision #35, p. 36)
"Front Elevation of Section 17" is plate number 34, and is reproduced in "The First Fifty Prints: Valton Tyler" with text by Rebecca Reynolds, published for Valley House Gallery by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas, 1972.
In "The First Fifty Prints," Reynolds writes, “this plate can be seen as a culmination of the artist’s earlier uses of aquatint and as a new direction the artist will take in his compositions. In early plates such as ‘Joy,’ Plate No. 12, and ‘Do Not Touch,’ Plate No. 20, the artist has presented his designs to our unaccustomed eyes, either formally, by placing them on sculpture pedestals, or more abstractly, using smaller soft ground silhouettes. In later examples such as ‘One Little Stage,’ Plate No. 24, or ‘Heritage,’ Plate No. 25, we were brought closer to a direct interaction with the forms as they began to fill the plates with increasing sculptural and monumental qualities. It was still possible to maintain a more passive point of view because of the stage format of the compositions. In ‘Avenue 11,’ Plate No. 26, as we have seen, the artist unveils the true authority of his designs by placing them in our environment to compete with our reality of a familiar cityscape and to make us question our ideas of aesthetics and logic. In ‘Front Elevation’ we enter into and are confronted with these structures in their own massive landscape...
Category
1970s Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Rag Paper, Aquatint
A Sculpture Framed by a Print
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Rear Section of B
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Birth Then?
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Just Pure Honest Fun
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Tickle Me
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching
Tippicanoe and Tyler Too
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Neighborhood
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Space Eagles
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching
Joy
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Four Cities
By Alex Corno
Located in Dallas, TX
This portfolio, of four prints engraved on linoleum and printed on paper, includes the linocuts titled: Dallas, Amarillo, Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Valley House Gallery & Sculptur...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
Journey
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Music Box
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Pillow Machine
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Just a Little Water Please
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Night Shift
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Junkyard Park
By Jim Stoker
Located in Dallas, TX
Jim Stoker was born in Nash, Texas, in 1935, and grew up in Atlanta, Texas. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BFA in Applied Art in 1957. His teaching career...
Category
1960s American Modern Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Heritage
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Stop Playing and Get to Work
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Avenue 11
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Together We Are
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Love Me
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Storage #2
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Homage to Galileo
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Rag Paper
Environment Man
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Height Almost 34'
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (The Living Arts, June 13, 2000, p. B2)
Valton Tyler was born in 1944 in Texas, where "the industrial world of oil refineries made a long-lasting impression on Valton as a very young child living in Texas City. He was three years old when the terrible explosion occurred there and can remember the terrifying confusion and 'the beautiful red sky and objects flying everywhere in the air.'" (Reynolds, p. 25) While growing up in Texas City, Valton's father worked in auto repair, and was known for his skill in mixing colors for paint jobs. After leaving Texas City, Valton made his way to Dallas, where he briefly enrolled at the Dallas Art Institute, but found it to be too social and commercial for his taste. After Valton's work was introduced to Donald Vogel (founder of Valley House Gallery), "Vogel arranged for Tyler to use the printmaking facilities in the art department of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where the young artist essentially taught himself several demanding printmaking techniques. 'It was remarkable,' Vogel says. 'Not only did he learn complicated etching methods, but he was able to express himself powerfully in whatever medium he explored.' Vogel became the publisher of Tyler's prints. Among them, the artist made editions of some 50 different images whose sometimes stringy abstract forms and more solid, architecturally arresting elements became the precursors of his later, mature style." (Gomez, Raw Vision #35, p. 36)
“Height...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Aquatint
Still Life
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
World of Watermelons
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (The Living Arts, June 13, 2000, p. B2)
Valton Tyler was born in 1944 in Texas, where "the industrial world of oil refineries made a long-lasting impression on Valton as a very young child living in Texas City. He was three years old when the terrible explosion occurred there and can remember the terrifying confusion and 'the beautiful red sky and objects flying everywhere in the air.'" (Reynolds, p. 25) While growing up in Texas City, Valton's father worked in auto repair, and was known for his skill in mixing colors for paint jobs. After leaving Texas City, Valton made his way to Dallas, where he briefly enrolled at the Dallas Art Institute, but found it to be too social and commercial for his taste. After Valton's work was introduced to Donald Vogel (founder of Valley House Gallery), "Vogel arranged for Tyler to use the printmaking facilities in the art department of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where the young artist essentially taught himself several demanding printmaking techniques. 'It was remarkable,' Vogel says. 'Not only did he learn complicated etching methods, but he was able to express himself powerfully in whatever medium he explored.' Vogel became the publisher of Tyler's prints. Among them, the artist made editions of some 50 different images whose sometimes stringy abstract forms and more solid, architecturally arresting elements became the precursors of his later, mature style." (Gomez, Raw Vision #35, p. 36)
“World of Watermelons” is plate number 19, and is reproduced in "The First Fifty Prints: Valton Tyler" with text by Rebecca Reynolds, published for Valley House Gallery by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas, 1972.
Of “World of Watermelons”, Tyler said “The title here does not represent my own associations with this print. Friends simply began referring to it as ‘the watermelon print...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Do Not Touch
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Freezing Point
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Trapped
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
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