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George Nama Prints and Multiples

American, b. 1939
George Nama (b. 1939 - ) is an American artist. Nama claims that all his images, whether drawings, etchings or sculptures, are figurative. If they don’t show something that really exists, his configurations “might exist”. Nama’s city of his birth, Homestead, Pennsylvania played a major role in his artistic vocabulary and imagery created in the early 1960’s. Industrial and rugged and largely void of color, Nama recreated familiar city vistas in a rich palette of blacks and grays. Using casein paint, oil sticks, watercolors and inks Nama also masterfully reproduced interiors of his mother’s living room, and his grandmother’s kitchen. Some of the later works, his openly expressionistic sketches of trees, fast and precise, figures and country landscapes point to his transition towards abstraction. Already involved with poets and writers since the early 1960s, Nama collaborated in 1976 with his friend, the French poet and art historian Yves Bonnefoy, on artist’s books. This in turn fostered a series of artist’s books and exhibitions with Alfred Brendel and Charles Simic. During his long career, Nama has been represented in numerous important exhibitions, galleries, and public collections, such as The Morgan Library, the Boston Athenæum, The Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Carnegie Institute. He was recently included in the distinguished international art fairs at Maastricht and the Salon du Dessin in Paris.
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Artist: George Nama
Safety Pin from George Nama's suite " Tight Rope " 1974
By George Nama
Located in Paonia, CO
Safety Pin by American artist George Nama is from ” Tightrope ” a suite of ten lino-cuts published by Monument Press 1974. We see a stark image of a large safety pin with a wire binding it’s movement which changes the viewers concept of what they think they are perceiving. In this series of ten lino-cuts Nama takes ordinary household objects and makes them inoperable by wrapping a wire around the workable part of the object and presenting one object at a time. There seems to be a sense of humor and at the same time profundity with each image. All copies are individually signed and numbered by the artist. This is copy number 5/50 and is touched by hand with watercolor on Arches cover stock paper and printed by Monument Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This print is in excellent condition with the first two letters of the title having been smudged by the artist when he hand wrote it in pencil on the lower left side of the print. George Allen Nama was born in Homestead near Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania in 1939. In the 1960’s he was part of an international artistic circle in Paris while working at the Atelier 17 with William Stanley Hayter...
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1970s American Modern George Nama Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

1973 George Nama 'Water I' Gray Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches ( 24.13 x 16.51 cm ) Image Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches ( 24.13 x 16.51 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Limited edition hand-color...
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1970s George Nama Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

George Nama-Water IV-Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition hand-colored Linoleum cut by George Nama from the "Catalogue of Monuments" Portfolio, printed at Monument Press on Arches Cover Stock. Only 100 portfolios were publi...
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20th Century Contemporary George Nama Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

George Nama-Air IV-SIGNED
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition hand-colored Linoleum cut by George Nama from the "Catalogue of Monuments" Portfolio, printed at Monument Press on Arches Cover Stock. Only 100 portfolios were publi...
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20th Century Contemporary George Nama Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

George Nama-Air I-Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition hand-colored Linoleum cut by George Nama from the "Catalogue of Monuments" Portfolio, printed at Monument Press on Arches Cover Stock. Only 100 portfolios were publi...
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20th Century Contemporary George Nama Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

George Nama-Air II-Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition hand-colored Linoleum cut by George Nama from the "Catalogue of Monuments" Portfolio, printed at Monument Press on Arches Cover Stock. Only 100 portfolios were publi...
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20th Century Contemporary George Nama Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

George Nama-Air III- Original Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition hand-colored Linoleum cut by George Nama from the "Catalogue of Monuments" Portfolio, printed at Monument Press on Arches Cover Stock. Only 100 portfolios were publi...
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20th Century Surrealist George Nama Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

The Cricket hand painted etching by George Nama 1978
By George Nama
Located in Paonia, CO
The Cricket is a hand painted etching by American artist George Nama edition A. P. hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. Believed to be from a collection of 9 etchings from the suite titled "The Origin of Language." This etching is raised at the six horizontal red lines and is touched by hand with watercolor in green, pink, white and red colors. It is in excellent condition. George Allen Nama was born in Homestead near Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania in 1939. In the 1960’s he was part of an international artistic circle in Paris while working at the Atelier 17 with William Stanley...
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1970s American Modern George Nama Prints and Multiples

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Etching

George Nama-Land I-Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition hand-colored Linoleum cut by George Nama from the "Catalogue of Monuments" Portfolio, printed at Monument Press on Arches Cover Stock. Only 100 portfolios were publi...
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20th Century Contemporary George Nama Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

"Braid, " George Nama, serigraph, abstract art, ca 1977
By George Nama
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Homestead, across the river from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1939, artist George Nama specializes in abstracted figures rendered in a variety of media that respond to and illuminate the works of writers such as Charles Simic, Yves Bonnefoy and Alfred Brendel. In the 1960's Nama worked in William Stanley Hayter...
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1970s Abstract George Nama Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Whistle lino-cut from George Nama suite Tight Rope 1974
By George Nama
Located in Paonia, CO
Whistle by American artist George Nama is from ” Tightrope ” a suite of ten lino-cuts published by Monument Press 1974. We see a stark image of a large whistle with a wire binding it’s movement which changes the viewers concept of what they think they are perceiving. In this series of ten lino-cuts Nama takes ordinary household objects and makes them inoperable by wrapping a wire around the workable part of the object and presenting one object at a time. There seems to be a sense of humor and at the same time profundity with each image. All copies are individually signed and numbered by the artist. This is copy number 5/50 and is touched by hand with watercolor on Arches cover stock paper and printed by Monument Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This print is in excellent condition. George Allen Nama was born in Homestead near Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania in 1939. In the 1960’s he was part of an international artistic circle in Paris while working at the Atelier 17 with William Stanley Hayter...
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1970s American Modern George Nama Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

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By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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