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.
Edward Marecak Mid Century Abstract Geometric Woodcut Color Print Fine Art
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
This original mid-century woodcut print by Edward Marecak demonstrates the artist’s interest in bold geometry, structured composition, and strong color relationships. The work reflec...
Woodcut
$1,495
H 14.88 in W 14.88 in
Josef Albers, Color Abstract Screenprint, Homage to the Square, 1977, Framed
By (after) Josef Albers
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Josef Albers Title: Homage to the Square Medium: Screenprint Date: 1977 Edition: 1500 Image Size: 8 1/4" x 8 1/4" Sheet Size: 9" x 9 1/2" Frame Size: 14 7/8" x 14 7/8" Signat...
Screen
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H 24.2 in W 23.8 in D 1 in
Concrete Geometric Abstract Composition with Blue (~44% OFF LIST PRICE)
By Gottfried Honegger
Located in Kansas City, MO
Gottfried Honegger Concrete Geometric Abstract Composition with Blue 3D-construction, Screenprint on Hahnemuhle Velvet 2015 Size: 20.9 × 21.1 on 24.2 × 23.8 inches Edition: E.A. of 5...
Archival Paper, Screen
Futuristica 3 (Limited Edition Print)
By Mauro Oliveira
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
This Futuristica skyline series by Mauro Oliveira has been a bestseller for the past 10 years. All pieces of the series are one of a kind, representing well known cities such as New...
Giclée
$1,950
H 32.88 in W 32.88 in D 1.5 in
Lines & Color, Straight, Not-Straight and Broken Lines, Using All Combinations..
By Sol LeWitt
Located in Milford, NH
A colorful geometric silkscreen print by American artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). LeWitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and attended Syracuse University where he studied tradition...
Paper, Screen
Prizma VI (Geometric Abstraction)
By Marko Spalatin
Located in Kansas City, MO
Prizma VI Color silkscreen Signed and titled by hand Size: 20.3 × 20.3 on 28.9 × 25.0 inches COA provided Marko Spalatin was born in Zagreb, Croatia. He immigrated to the US in his ...
Screen
$1,670
H 40.75 in W 28.75 in D 0.04 in
Expo 1970 World Exhibition in Osaka – Original Vintage Japanese Poster
By Yusaku Kamekura
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Event Poster created 1967 by one of the best known Japanese graphic artists, Yusaku Kamekura; in 1960 he was a founding member, then ...
Paper
City 365
By Risaburo Kimura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Risaburo Kimura– Japanese/American (1924-2014 ) Title: City 365 Year: circa 1972 Medium: Serigraph Sight size: 25 x 19.75 inches. Sheet size: 28.75 x 22.75 inches. Signatur...
Paper, Screen
$1,000
H 35 in W 6 in D 6 in
Peter Halley, Jablonka Galerie Köln rare abstract exhibition print (Hand Signed)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
Peter Halley Jablonka Galerie, Köln (Hand Signed), 1990 Offset lithograph (Hand Signed by Peter Halley) 26 1/2 × 30 inches (ships rolled in a tube 37 x 6 x 6) Signed by Peter Halley ...
Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
$1,403
H 24.41 in W 24.41 in D 0.04 in
Geneviève Claisse - Kinetic Composition II - Original Signed Lithograph
By Geneviève Claisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Geneviève Claisse - Kinetic Composition II - Original Signed Lithograph Publisher Stamp Edition: EA Geneviève CLAISSE, born in 1935 in France, a relative to Auguste Herbin. She is recognized today as one of the most important geometrical abstract French artist of the 1970s. Her approach to painting was influenced by reading Art d’Aujourd’hui, Tribune of Geometrical Abstraction. 1958 First solo exhibits in the Galerie Caille in Cambrai and Galerie Hybler in Paris. 1961 First exhibit in the Galerie Denise René in Paris where she regularly exhibited in the following years. 1965 + Focused work on color (Cercles, ADN) 1967 Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Biennale of Paris. 1968 “Art...
Lithograph
$3,509
H 12.37 in W 8.27 in
Zdeněk Sýkora, Untitled (Folgende Folge aus dem Tschechischem): 2 Signed Prints
Located in Hamburg, DE
Zdeněk Sýkora (Czech, 1920–2011) Untitled (from Folgende Folge aus dem Tschechischem), 1969 Medium: 2 screenprints on paper (incl. catalogue) Dimensions: 12 2/5 × 8 3/10 in (31.4 × 2...
Screen
City 368
By Risaburo Kimura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Risaburo Kimura– Japanese/American (1924-2014 ) Title: City 368 Year: circa 1972 Medium: Serigraph Sight size: 25 x 19.75 inches. Sheet size: 28.75 x 22.75 inches. Signatur...
Paper, Screen
$1,520
H 31.5 in W 24.02 in D 0.04 in
Geneviève Claisse - Kinetic Composition - Original Signed Lithograph
By Geneviève Claisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Geneviève Claisse - Kinetic Composition - Original Signed Lithograph Publisher Stamp Edition: EA Geneviève CLAISSE, born in 1935 in France, a relative to Auguste Herbin. She is recognized today as one of the most important geometrical abstract French artist of the 1970s. Her approach to painting was influenced by reading Art d’Aujourd’hui, Tribune of Geometrical Abstraction. 1958 First solo exhibits in the Galerie Caille in Cambrai and Galerie Hybler in Paris. 1961 First exhibit in the Galerie Denise René in Paris where she regularly exhibited in the following years. 1965 + Focused work on color (Cercles, ADN) 1967 Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Biennale of Paris. 1968 “Art...
Lithograph
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H 17.75 in W 21.75 in D 0.5 in
Lines and Shapes (6/8), Mid Century Modern Framed Black White Abstract Print
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
Lithograph on paper by Denver artist Edward Marecak (1919-1993) titled "Lines and Shapes", number 6 in an edition of 8. Presented framed, outer dimensions measure 17 ⅞ x 21 ⅞ x ⅜ inc...
Lithograph
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H 10.75 in W 15.5 in D 1.5 in
Fish, Semi Abstract Mid-Century Modern Colored Woodblock Woodcut, Pink Orange
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
Fish, original vintage midcentury modern style circa 1950s - 1970s semi abstract geometric woodcut (woodblock print) on linen by 20th century Denver, Colorado artist Edward Marecak (...
Woodcut