Mark di Suvero Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
American, b. 1933
Mark di Suvero is a key Abstract Expressionist who rose to prominence in the late 1950s due to his ground-breaking sculpture practice. His large sculptures would be comprised of leftover construction materials from demolition sites such as structural steel, wires, and other scraps, famously being put together through di Suvero's use of a crane. The subsequent sculptures produced simultaneously take on a constructivist, existentialist, and utopian quality. His work is intentionally installed in public spaces like parks and gardens in order to confront everyday viewers with the problems of contemporary industrialization and urban living.
Di Suvero is the founder of the Socrates Sculpture Park, Park Place Gallery, and ConStruct. He has also received the International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award and the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities.(Biography provided by Rafael Gallery)
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Artist: Mark di Suvero
Grass Power, original unique signed drawing, hand signed and inscribed; Framed
By Mark di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Grass Power, 1979-2014
Mixed Media drawing: marker, ink and pencil on paper
Hand titled, signed and inscribed to Nadine by Mark di Suvero
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Floated and f...
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Johnny Appleseed (Abstract Expressionist acrylic paint on print of sculpture)
By Mark di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Untitled, 2014
Acrylic hand painting on digital print. Unique trial proof. Hand signed and annotated
Hand signed and annotated Trial Proof by di Suvero
17 1/2 × 16 in...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Mark di Suvero Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic, Digital Pigment
Study for Abstract Expressionist sculpture Atman, hand signed twice by di Suvero
By Mark di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Study for Atman (hand signed twice), ca. 1978
Marker wash on paper (hand signed twice by Mark di Suvero)
Signed twice by Mark di Suvero on the lower front center and again on the right
15 × 20 inches
Unframed
This original, hand signed marker on wash drawing is a study for di Suvero's sculpture Atman, 1978-1979, in the Cincinnati Art Museum Collection.
About Mark di Suvero:
Internationally renowned sculptor Mark di Suvero was born in Shanghai, China, in 1933. He immigrated to the United States in 1941 and received a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. Di Suvero began showing his sculpture in the late 1950's and is one of the most important American artists to emerge from the Abstract Expressionist era. A pioneer in the use of steel, di Suvero is without peer in the exhibition of public sculpture worldwide. Mark di Suvero's architectural-scale sculptures - many with moving elements that invite viewer participation - have been exhibited in the United States, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Germany, Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom. Di Suvero is the first living artist to exhibit in Le Jardin de Tuileries and Les Esplanades des Invalides in Paris and at Millennium Park-Chicago. His work is in over 100 museums and public collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and Storm King Art Center where he has had three major exhibitions.
Mark di Suvero is a lifelong activist for peace and social justice, and has demonstrated a generous commitment to helping artists. In 1962, he co-founded Park Place Gallery, the first artists' cooperative in New York City. In 1977, he established the Athena Foundation to assist artists to realize their ambitions. In 1986, he established Socrates Sculpture Park at the site of a landfill on the East River in Queens, New York. Through his leadership, a 4.5 acre parcel was transformed by a coalition of artists and community members into an open studio and exhibition space. To date, the park has hosted the work of over 900 artists.
Di Suvero received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center in 2000 and the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities in 2005. In 2010, di Suvero was a recipient of the Smithonian Archives of American Art Medal...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Mark di Suvero Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Project for Sculpture in Chalon-sur-Saône (unique sculptural drawing for France)
By Mark di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Project for Sculpture in Chalon-sur-Saône, 1992
Marker, Watercolor and Ink Wash on Paper.
Hand signed and dated by artist on lower right front
Frame included
The rare ...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Mark di Suvero Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Yayoi's Guitar unique signed work on paper by internationally renowned sculptor
By Mark di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Yayoi's Guitar, 1980
Ink wash drawing
Signed and titled in red ink on the front
Frame included (held in original vintage frame)
Unique 1980 drawing by sculptor Mark di...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Mark di Suvero Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Sketch for van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, unique signed drawing by renowned sculptor
By Mark di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Sketch for van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1972
Marker wash on paper
Signed in graphite pencil by the artist on the lower right front
Frame included: elegantly floated and ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Mark di Suvero Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Permanent Marker, Mixed Media
Original, unique signed Study for sculpture Motu Viget (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
By Mark di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Study for Motu Viget, ca. 1977
Ink wash on notebook paper. Hand signed in black marker
14 × 11 1/4 inches
Boldly signed in black marker o...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Mark di Suvero Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, India Ink, Permanent Marker
Mid century modern ink wash painting Abstract Expressionist COA signed by artist
By Mark di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
MARK DI SUVERO
Abstract Expressionist drawing with artist signed COA, ca. 1963
Pen and black ink and brush and black ink wash on paper.
Hand signed on the front.
Framed, with separa...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Mark di Suvero Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, India Ink, Mixed Media
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