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
$1,971
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
$1,974
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
L'Ogre Enjoue, 1969
By Joan Miró
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Vibrant hues of red, green, yellow and blue intersect against bold black curves in Joan Miró The Playful Ogre (L’Ogre Enjoue), 1969. This lively and commanding artwork is appropriate...
Etching, Aquatint
$13,135
H 28.51 in W 37.8 in
ANISH KAPOOR - MOIRÉ. Limited edition etching Hand signed. Contemporary, Modern
By Anish Kapoor
Located in Madrid, Madrid
ANISH KAPOOR MOIRÉ 3 Date of creation: 2015 Medium: Etching on paper Edition: 39 Size: 96 x 72.4 cm Condition: In perfect conditions, brand new Etching on paper hand signed and numbe...
Paper, Etching
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
Standard Oil Building.
By Joseph Pennell
Located in Plano, TX
Standard Oil Building. 1923. Etching. Wuerth 817. 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 (sheet 13 1/2 x 10 1/16). Edition probably 50. A glowing impression, printed by the artist on antique cream wove paper. Signed and annotated 'imp' in pencil. Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat proof printed by the artist. $875. 26 Broadway" is the home of the Standard Oil...
Etching
$1,500
H 23.5 in W 16.25 in
"Untitled" Paul Resika, Modernist, Black and White, Abstracted Composition
By Paul Resika
Located in New York, NY
Paul Resika Untitled Signed lower right Etching on wove paper 10 1/2 x 6 inches Paul Resika (born 1928, New York, New York) is primarily recognized for his artwork featuring the di...
Paper, Etching
Letter From Vienna Color Etching 3/60
By Krystyna Smiechowska
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Letter From Vienna Artist signed, dated, paper sheet 30x22.5 Krystyna Smiechowska was born in 1935 Krakow -2014 Paris France. Printmaker Krystyna Smiechowska draws her inspiration f...
Etching, Archival Paper
$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
Marino from Shakespeare
By Marino Marini
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color aquatint and etching. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 75. Signed in pencil in lower right margin. Inscribed "PA" in pencil in lower le...
Color, Etching, Aquatint
La Joie de la Thora
By Guillaume Azoulay
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "La Joie de la thora (The Joy of the Thora)" is an original color etching on wove paper by Maroccan artist Guillame Azoulay, born 1949. It is signed , titled and numbered 17/300 in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) is 15.75 x 15.75 inches, sheet size is 22 x 26 inches, It is in excellent condition. About the artist. Guillaume Azoulay was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1949. Since age he went to many parts of the world, earning his way by painting and performing as an actor. In 1976 he arrived in the United States. In this short time span, Azoulay has worked to establish himself as an American etcher. After moving several times Azoulay settled in California in March of 1976 where he now lives Seven of his works are held in the permanent collection of the Musee Du Louvre...
Etching