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
$13,406
H 19.69 in W 27.56 in D 0.04 in
Dans l' Atelier - 1960s - Pablo Picasso - Aquatint - Modern
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 50 copies plus 15 artist's proofs. Aquatint and drypoint. Image dimensions: 32 x 46 cm Reference: Bloch 1219; Baer 1201.
Aquatint
$268
H 13 in W 9.85 in D 0.04 in
Abstract Composition - Original Etching and Drypoint - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original print in etching and drypoint on white paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century. In very good conditions. The artwork create...
Drypoint, Etching
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
Abstract Composition - Original Etching - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original etching realized by an anonymous artist in the 1970s. Good conditions except for worn margins. Numbered. Edition, 75/130. The artwork is depict...
Etching
Ancient View of Paris - Etching - 1748
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on paper realized in 1748. Very good condition except for some minor foxing. Includes a wooden frame cm. 27.5x41.5
Etching
$1,049
H 14.97 in W 11.03 in
The Bird - Etching Signed in the Plate - 1965 (Orozco #783)
By George Braque
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges Braque The bird Etching in colors (Crommelynck workshop) Signed in the plate with the monogram Edition of 250 copies not numbered On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in...
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
Et sur la terre
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Et sur la terre Etching from 1977. Edition of 225 proofs. On Rives paper. Dimensions of work: 66 x 43,5 cm. Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris. Referen...
Etching
Orofena, from Imaginary Places III
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, screenprint, etching and aquatint printed in colours, with relief, 1998, signed in pencil, dated, numbered from the edition of 55 (there were also 14 artist's proofs), with the publisher's blindstamp, Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Mount Kisco, 54.6 x 55.2 cm. (21½ x 21¾ in.) Catalogue Raisonne: Axsom 252 Over a period of four years, Stella created a body of prints whose titles all came from ‘The Dictionary of Imaginary Places’ by Alberto Mangual and Gianni Guadalupi. Each work from this series is recognisable for its teaming compositions of twisting, colliding and knotted forms. The shapes appear to spill out of their sheet, seemingly trying to escape their frames. As he had done since the ‘Swan Engravings...
Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph, Screen
$326
H 6.7 in W 12.8 in D 0.04 in
Part of the City of Paris from the Rue Saint-Germain-de... - Etching - 1748
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on paper realized in 1748. Very good condition except for some minor foxing. Includes a wooden frame cm. 27.5x41.5
Etching
$664
H 14.97 in W 19.69 in D 0.08 in
Les Imprimeurs - Original Etching - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Les Imprimeurs is an original etching realized by an unknown artist in the mid-20th Century. Good conditions. Numbered, edition 1/30. Hand-signed but illegible. The artwork is de...
Etching
View of the Castle of Versailles - Etching - 1748
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on paper realized in 1748. Very good condition except for some minor foxing. Includes a wooden frame cm. 27.5x41.5
Etching