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
$1,880
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
Composition VI, from: Gaudí - Spanish Surrealism
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
This etching is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Miró" in the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered 28 in pencil from the edition of 50, in the lower left margin. The work...
Etching, Aquatint
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
$13,675Sale Price|25% Off
H 14.97 in W 10.83 in
Peintre Debout a Son Chavalet, avec un Modele
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Wien, 9
Peintre debout à son chevalet, avec un modèle by Pablo Picasso is a compelling portrayal of the creative act itself. The composition shows a standing painter at his easel, accompanie...
Drypoint, Aquatint
$13,675Sale Price|25% Off
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
Le Sculpteur
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Wien, 9
Le Sculpteur by Pablo Picasso is a compelling and refined representation of the artist at work. The composition focuses on a sculptor figure, reduced to essential lines and forms, ye...
Drypoint, Aquatint
Composition VII, from: Gaudí - Spanish Surrealism
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching with Aquatint on Arches Wove Paper Paper size: 66 x 50 cm. / 26 x 19.7 in. Additional Information: This etching is hand signed in pencil ...
Etching, Aquatint
$2,507
H 14.18 in W 21.07 in D 0.04 in
Joan Miro - L'Issue Dérobée: one plate - Original Aquatint
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro - L'Issue Dérobée - Original Aquatint One plate from Jacques Dupin, L'Issue Dérobée, Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1974 (D. 687-706; C. books 187) 1974 Dimensions: 36 x 54 cm Ed...
Drypoint, 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
Deux Femmes au Mirroir
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Wien, 9
Deux Femmes au Miroir by Pablo Picasso is a fascinating exploration of reflection, identity, and perception. The composition presents two women interacting with a mirror, their forms...
Drypoint, Aquatint
Nu Accoude
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Wien, 9
Nu Accoude by Pablo Picasso is a refined and intimate portrayal of the human figure. The composition presents a reclining nude leaning on one arm, rendered with fluid, confident line...
Drypoint, Aquatint
$13,735Sale Price|25% Off
H 14.97 in W 11.03 in
Peintre et Modele aux Cheveux Longs
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Wien, 9
Peintre et Modèle aux Cheveux Longs by Pablo Picasso is an elegant and expressive depiction of the relationship between artist and muse. The composition features a painter alongside ...
Drypoint, Aquatint
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
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