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.
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Edward Marecak Flying Kite Happiness 1970 Abstract Figurative Oil Painting
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
“Flying the Kite of Happiness” is a vibrant 1970 oil painting by celebrated Colorado modernist Edward Marecak. This joyful and highly expressive com...
Acrylic
Underwater Drink, Las Brisas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3360 ...
Lambda
$478Sale Price|25% Off
H 31.5 in W 43.31 in D 0.04 in
Sardinia Giclée Print, Abstract Landscape, Limited Edition of 50, 2018
By Amanda Ludovisi
Located in Roma, IT
Sardinia is a photograph taken by Amanda Ludovisi in 2018. It represents a tranquil wave by the shore in Sardinia, which delicate colors. This is a gi...
Acrylic
Princess Pia Ruspoli Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Princess Pia Ruspoli holidays on the exclusive Moritorio Island in Sardinia, September 1978. Princess Pia Ruspoli Italy 1978 Chromogenic Lambda print 40 x 60 inches Estate signatur...
C Print
Underwater Drink, Las Brisas, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. Slim Aarons Underwater Drink Acapulco Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collector will receive the next number in the edition Modern printing from original transparency C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, Crisp detail, continuous tone and brilliant color Paper weight 210gms Matte Satin Surface Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). * Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. #slimaarons #acapulco. Vintage scene...
Lambda
$1,249
H 15 in W 23 in D 0.1 in
Icebergs, 2015, Limited Edition Australian Lifestyle Photography Wall Art
By Ben Thomas
Located in Brighton, GB
Icebergs is a gorgeous C-Type Print in an Edition of 10 in this size by contemporary photographer Ben Thomas. This print is from the older series that Thoma...
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
$378Sale Price|20% Off
H 23.63 in W 15.75 in D 0.04 in
Tokyo - Photograph by Amanda Ludovisi - 2019
By Amanda Ludovisi
Located in Roma, IT
Tokyo is a photograph taken by Amanda Ludovisi in 2019. It represents a street in a rainy evening in the center of Tokyo. This is a giclée print on Ca...
Acrylic
$212
H 10.63 in W 8.67 in D 0.04 in
Historical Places Photo- Winsor Castle and Exeter Cathedral - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Places Photo- Winsor Castle and Exeter Cathedral is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. It belongs to historical album including masterpie...
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons, Fruit Cocktail (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Fruit Cocktail, 1968 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 Mrs Charles Rogers sits on a submerged bar stool in the Villa Vera Spa & Racquet Cl...
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Slim Aarons By the Pool in Acapulco
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
By the Pool in Acapulco, 1978 C Print 24 x 20 inches Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity. A tanned man surrounded by young women in bikinis...
C Print
$1,532
H 24 in W 18 in D 0.1 in
Bondi Interpretation, Limited Edition C-type Print Australian Landscape
By Ben Thomas
Located in Brighton, GB
Bondi Interpretation is a dynamic C-Type Print in a Limited Edition of 10 in this size by contemporary photographer Ben Thomas. Bondi Interpretation by Be...
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
$472
H 13.19 in W 10.24 in D 0.04 in
Ancient Views of the Strait of Magellan - Original Vintage Photos - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View for the Strait of Magellan is a set of 4 ancient albumen prints made in the 1880s. In very good condition, and applied on a single cardboard. Caption in Italian ink, h...
Photographic Paper, Paper
$1,532
H 18 in W 24 in D 0.1 in
Littoral Zone, 2020, Limited Edition C-Type Print Bondi Beach Australia
By Ben Thomas
Located in Brighton, GB
Littoral Zone is a vibrant C-Type Print in a Limited Edition of 10 in this size by contemporary photographer Ben Thomas. Littoral Zone by Ben Thomas represents the stunning natural...
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital