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
$13,754
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
Genesis 3th Day
By Dennis Ray Beall
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Genesis 3th 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 num...
Etching
$957
H 20.08 in W 14.97 in D 0.04 in
Warrior - Etching and Aquatint by Marino Marini - 1963
By Marino Marini
Located in Roma, IT
Warrior 1963 is an original contemporary artwork realized by Marino Marini. Color etching and acquatint depicting a warrior. Edition of 100 copies. On the back oh the artwork there...
Etching, Aquatint
$957
H 20.08 in W 14.97 in D 0.04 in
Applause - Etching and Aquatint by Marino Marini - 1963
By Marino Marini
Located in Roma, IT
Applause is an original contemporary artwork realized by Marino Marini. Color etching and aquatint. Edition of 100 copies. On the back oh the artwork there is an inscription in chi...
Etching, Aquatint
Turkish Sundial and Column
By Ben Nicholson
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) was a leading figure in British Modernism. His innovative approach to abstract composition shaped painting and sculpture in the 20th Century. Nicholson was...
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
$957
H 20.08 in W 14.97 in D 0.04 in
Juggler - Etching and Aquatint by Marino Marini - 1963
By Marino Marini
Located in Roma, IT
Juggler 1963 is an original contemporary artwork realized by Marino Marini. Color etching and aquatint depicting a juggler. Edition of 100 copies. On the back oh the artwork there ...
Etching, Aquatint
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
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
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
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
$2,500
H 30.5 in W 59.5 in D 1.5 in
James Rosenquist Original Etching & Aquatint, 1979
By James Rosenquist
Located in New York, NY
James Rosenquist (1933 - 2017) Swing Screen, 1979 Etching and aquatint (two state) Sight: 17 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (image) Framed: 30 1/2 x 59 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. Edition 21/78 Inscribed, signed, numbered bottom James Rosenquist was born in 1933 at Grand Forks, North Dakota. His family moved to Minneapolis in 1944. In 1948, he began his studies of art at the Minneapolis Art Institute. In 1953, he continued his studies of painting at the University of Minnesota. In 1955 he had a scholarship to go to the Art Students' League, New York, where he met Robert Indiana. During this period, he painted small format abstract paintings and worked part-time as a driver. In 1957 he met Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. In 1959 he was at the same drawing class as Claes Oldenburg and was made "head painter" by the Artcraft Strauss Corporation. He married the textile designer Mary Lou Adams. During the election he produced the picture President Elect in which John F. Kennedy's face is combined in a kind of collage with sex and automobile imagery. His first one-man exhibition in the Green Gallery, in 1962, was sold out. In 1963 he worked on several sculptures, had a number of exhibitions at the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, showed his work at the Dwan Gallery...
Etching, Aquatint