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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Oil
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
1940s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
1960s Abstract Mixed Media
Crayon, Acrylic
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
Edward MarecakThe Argument, 1960s Vintage Semi-Abstract Oil Painting in Reds, Pinks, and Black, 1968
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Crayon, Acrylic
20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Ink, Acrylic
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Woodcut
1960s Abstract Mixed Media
Pastel, Acrylic
People Also Browsed
2010s Books
Paper
Late 20th Century Italian Mounted Objects
Brass
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Sculptures and Carvings
Acrylic
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
1920s Showa Landscape Prints
Woodcut
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Edward MarecakThe Four Winter Months, Semi-Abstract Figure Oil Painting, Red Black Orange Blue, 1985
1960s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s Abstract Abstract Prints
Woodcut
1960s Figurative Paintings
Oil
20th Century Italian Folk Art Books
Paper
1980s American Modern Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1940s American Modern Abstract Prints
Woodcut
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
Edward MarecakAdam and Eve, 1980s Abstract Figurative Painting, Vertical Oil Painting, 30 x 48, 1983
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1990s Animal Prints
Lithograph
1990s Animal Prints
Lithograph
19th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Edward MarecakA Small Incantation, 1940s Abstracted Figural Watercolor and Ink Painting, circa 1940s
20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Board, Oil
1970s Realist Figurative Paintings
Watercolor
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
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Edward Marecak was an American painter who was born in 1919. Growing up in the farming community of Brunswick, Ohio, he showed early artistic promise, hired by the National Youth Administration to document historic barns. In 1946, Marecak came to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center for a year and after a semester interlude at Cranbrook returned to study lithography with Lawrence Barrett. There he also met his future wife and sometime collaborator, ceramicist Theresa Madonna Fortin. Given the opportunity to teach a summer course at the University of Colorado, he decided to obtain a teaching certificate at the University of Denver and subsequently embarked on his 25-year career in the Denver Public School system. Rather than pursue fame, Edward Marecak directed his zeal toward fostering younger generations in the principles of art as well as his simple philosophies. Moreover, his teaching salary allowed him to ply his prodigious talent at whatever he pleased, instead of bending to the dictates of trends and sales. Having inherited his faith in education from his Slovakian immigrant parents, Marecak could add the shaping of lives to his mastery of art forms, including lithographs, monoprints, drawings, hooked rugs, ceramics, paintings, wood sculptures, stained-glass windows and jewelry. While exhibiting in his lifetime, he was, in his wife’s words, “his own greatest collector”, but shows and his popularity at the Kirkland Museum have positioned Marecak posthumously among Colorado’s pre-eminent modernists. As a child, Marecak was enthralled by the Carpathian tales of magic and supernatural beings told by his grandmother. As with other artists with roots in Eastern Europe, his artistic turn to folk tradition would free him from learned practices of perspective and modeling in favor of flat patterns within patterns and brilliant, throbbing color. While others ventured further into abstraction, Marecak stylized figurative elements into crowded compositions that appeared like a mosaic or stained glass. As he matured, he could declare, “I am still very much a Byzantine designer and my joy with what color can do grows all the time”. The traceries of strong outlines and bold shapes provide compartments for vibrant colors, contrasts and rough textures that can scarcely be contained. The Kirkland Museum staged a retrospective of Edward and Donna Marecak in 2007.