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...
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Genesis 7th Day
By Dennis Ray Beall
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Genesis 7th Day" 1962 is a n original colors etching, with embossing by noted American artist Dennis Ray Beall, b.1929. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numb...
Etching
$3,500
H 26 in W 19.75 in
Salvador Dalí, "Un entré fracassant aux U.S.A" , etching, hand colored, signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Salvador Dalí Un entré fracassant aux U.S.A (A shattering entrance to the U.S.A) from After 50 Years of Surrealism Original etching with hand coloring, hand signed in pencil 1974 Im...
Etching
$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
Dante - Etching, 1897
By (after) Auguste Rodin
Located in Paris, IDF
Auguste RODIN (after) Dante, 1897 Etching enhanced with watercolor On vellum 42.5 x 31 cm (c. 16.7 x 12.2 inches) Edition limited to 125 copies, send with the certificate of authent...
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Peintre et Modele Accoude
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Wien, 9
Peintre et Modèle Accoudé by Pablo Picasso is a captivating depiction of the relationship between an artist and his muse. The composition shows a painter leaning toward a reclining m...
Drypoint, Aquatint
Naked Man - Etching, 1897
By (after) Auguste Rodin
Located in Paris, IDF
Auguste RODIN (after) Naked man, 1897 Etching enhanced with watercolor On vellum 42.5 x 31 cm (c. 16.7 x 12.2 inches) Edition limited to 125 copies, send wi...
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Composition
By Umberto Mastroianni
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Composition Original carborundum engraving, c. 1970 Signed: Mastroianni in pencil lower right (see photo) Edition: 100 (76/100) (see photo) Printed on a heavy laid paper Condition:...
Etching
$18,702
H 14.97 in W 11.03 in
Sculpteur devant sa Sellette, avec un Spectateur Barbu
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Wien, 9
Sculpteur devant sa sellette, avec un spectateur barbu by Pablo Picasso presents a vivid scene of artistic creation observed by another figure. The composition shows a sculptor worki...
Drypoint, Aquatint
Tete d'homme Barbu
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Wien, 9
Tête d’homme barbu by Pablo Picasso is a powerful and expressive portrait that highlights the artist’s mastery of form and character. The image depicts a bearded man, constructed thr...
Drypoint, Aquatint
$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
Bernard Sanders, (Abstraction with Sun)
By Bernard Sanders
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Sanders (1906-1967) was a master of minimalist prints. In several I've posted the subject is really atmosphere and tension. This could be r...
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Figure - Print by Sergio Barletta - 1970s
By Sergio Barletta
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed in pencil. Artist's proof. Very good condition.
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