Frances Barth is a noted American artist and teacher born in 1946 in the Bronx. She studied painting at Hunter College and makes abstract paintings and videos and has been the director of the multidisciplinary Graduate school at Maryland Institute College of Art, the Mount Royal School of Art, since 2004. Barth's accomplished paintings are wholly individualistic and other than to say they are radical abstractions, they are eccentric enough to elude classification. Barth refers to aspects of her work as a combination of comic restraint and purist abstraction. Combining contradictory elements of local color with abstract color, vocabularies of both painting and drawing, disorienting spatial relationships, Barth creates works that are as provocatively ambiguous as they are soothingly beautiful. In her desire to tell stories without words, Barth implies narratives and geographies in a realm between landscape, mapping and abstraction. The narratives in the paintings are stories taking place over a period of geological time, with references both topographic and tectonic, alluding to simultaneous multiple histories. The light that Barth creates within her paintings is a spell-binding presence that shifts the picture plane into deep dimensional space at the same time that her compositional shifts in scale destabilize.
Speaking on her use of color the artist refers to her desire to create “big areas of ungracious color, a chemical color that doesn't exist in nature to open up like the sky but not be sky”. She has exhibited her paintings widely in both solo and group exhibitions since the late 1960s, and her work is represented in numerous public, corporate and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art and The Albright Knox Museum.
Frances showed six of her paintings in the 2015 Venice Biennale at the Palazzo Grimani in “Frontiers Reimagined”. Her awards include The National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1974 and 1982, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977, the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant in 1995, two American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase awards in ’99 and ’04, the Anonymous Was a Woman grant in 2006 and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2017. Frances is married to the actor and director Ron Nakahara.
She currently lives and works in New Jersey.
Goro, Modern Color Etching by Frances Barth
By Frances Barth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Frances Barth, American (1946 - ) - Goro, Year: 1981, Medium: Color Etching, Edition: Test Proof, Image Size: 9.5 x 15 inches, Size: 22 x 27.5 in. (55.88 x 69.85 cm)
Etching
Goro, Modern Color Etching by Frances Barth
By Frances Barth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Frances Barth, American (1946 - ) - Goro, Year: 1981, Medium: Color Etching, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 20/250, Image Size: 9.5 x 15 inches, Size: 22 x 27.5 in...
Etching
$750
H 26.25 in W 20 in
1959 Israeli Aharon Kahana Modernist Aquatint Etching Judaica Rabbi & Students
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract color composition, 1959 aquatint lithograph "the Master and his Pupils". This was from a portfolio which included works by Yosl Bergner, Menashe Kadishman, Yosef Zaritsky, Aharon Kahana, Jacob...
Aquatint
$3,600
H 29.75 in W 22 in
Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Lithograph "Femme dans un fauteuil "
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Femme dans un fauteuil" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 31/500 lower left From the estate of Pab...
Etching
$1,967
H 22.05 in W 29.93 in D 0.08 in
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca Relli - Composition I Date of creation: 1977 Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper Edition: 75 + AP + HC Size: 56 x 76 cm Condition: In very good conditions and n...
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
$1,967
H 22.05 in W 29.93 in D 0.08 in
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition XIV Etching American Abstract Expressionism
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition XIV Date of creation: 1977 Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper Edition number: 51/75 Size: 56 x 76 cm Condition: In very good conditions and...
Etching, Aquatint
$625
H 35 in W 28 in
Night Light Signed Aquatint Etching California Modernist Woman Artist Susan Hall
By Susan Hall
Located in Surfside, FL
Susan Hall Hand signed and numbered Aquatint Etching This piece has a Memphis Milano sort of vibe to it. Susan Hall lives and works in Point Reyes Station, California, a town in the heart of the Point Reyes National Seashore. This pristine wilderness area is dominated by a mosaic of bays and ocean, rolling grass lands and forests. It is inhabited by a diversity of wildlife, including over 450 species of birds, mountains lions, deer, bobcats, foxes, and elk. Ms. Hall who is a native of this area returned after spending twenty years in New York City. In her book, “Painting Point Reyes”, Hall says, “Point Reyes is the center of my painting life. Point Reyes has been my life and when I haven’t lived here, it has been an underground stream that spoke to me in dreams and visions.” While living and painting in New York City, Ms. Hall exhibited her work widely in museums and galleries. Among them are the Whitney Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Trabia MacAfee Gallery, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago; Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles. In addition, her work has been featured in group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, including in 2020 Bud Shark's Ink: The California Crew at BMoCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Colorado USA representing the panoply of aesthetics, cultural backgrounds, viewpoints, and talent held within the bounty of art “made in California.” This remarkable grouping of artists, Brad Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Roy De Forest, Amy Ellingson, Susan Hall, Don Ed Hardy, Mildred Howard, Robert Hudson, Hung Liu, Kara Maria, Rex Ray, Alison Saar, Italo Scanga, and William T. Wiley. Women to the Fore, Hudson River Museum Yonkers 2021 A group of women artists working in oil painting and drawing, lithograph prints and photograph, collage and sculpture. Many icons of feminist art history. Judy Chicago, Judy Giera, Marisol, and Shanequa Benitez, Ann McCoy...
Etching, Aquatint
$750
H 19.5 in W 17 in D 0.75 in
Hand Colored Etching by WPA Artist Agnes Mills, 1982, Unique
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Mills (American, 1915-2008) Guignol Intermezzo, 1982 Hand colored etching (UNIQUE) Sight: 13 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. Framed: 19 1/2 x 17 x 3/4 in. Titled lower right Inscribed "AP" bo...
Etching
'Quintet' — Mid-Century Modernism, Atelier 17
By Terry Haass
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Terry Haass, 'Quintet', etching and aquatint, edition 20, c. 1948. Signed, titled, and numbered '12/20' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper, with fu...
Etching, Aquatint
Fisherman
By Peter Doig
Located in New York, NY
A superb impression with vibrant colors. A superb impression of this color aquatint and etching on Zerkall paper. Edition of 119. Signed and dated in pencil by Doig. Proofed by the a...
Color, Etching, Aquatint
$1,000
H 18.75 in W 27.75 in
Evening Moon, color etching renowned printmaker Signed/N, ex Denver Art Museum
Located in New York, NY
Kathan Brown Evening Moon, 1962 Color etching on wove paper Hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 30/100 by Kathan Brown on the front 18 3/4 × 27 3/4 inches De-accessioned from the...
Etching
Fêtes
By Alexander Calder
Located in New York, NY
Complete set of 7 color aquatints on Arches. The deluxe edition of 25 signed by Calder and numbered, aside from the unsigned edition of 150. Each but one of the aquatints signed and ...
Color, Aquatint
Série Noire et Rouge
By Joan Miró
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Hand-signed and numbered in pencil, 14/30. Engraved at Marcoussus' studio and printed by Lacouriere, Paris. Co-published by Pierre Loeb, Paris and Pierre Matisse, New York. Literatu...
Etching
Cavallo in armonia
By Marino Marini
Located in New York, NY
A superb, richly-inked impression of this color aquatint and etching. Signed and numbered 67/125 in pencil. Printed and published by Grafica dei Greci, Rome.
Color, Etching, Aquatint