From Above (Beijing)
By Martin Puryear
Located in Berkeley, CA
COLOR HARDGROUND ETCHING WITH AQUATINT AND DRYPOINT. RIVES BFK PAPER IMAGE SIZE: 18” x 24”; PAPER SIZE: 29” x 34” EDITION OF 40
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2010s Martin Puryear Art
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Etching
Martin Puryear Art
American, b. 1941
One of the most lauded contemporary American sculptors, Martin Puryear (b. 1941) has had — and continues to have — an impressive career.
Born in Washington, D.C., where he earned a fine art degree from the Catholic University of America in 1963, Puryear started his journey not in fine art, but in craft. As a teen, he learned how to build everything from furniture to musical instruments to canoes. Later, following his undergraduate work, he joined the Peace Corps as a volunteer in Sierra Leone and learned traditional craft methods, including pottery, weaving and woodworking. He then studied printmaking in Sweden before returning to the United States and earning his MFA from Yale University’s School of Art and Architecture. There, he specialized in sculpture.
Blending minimalism with the craft arts, Puryear’s work is often abstract and large scale. His sculptures of hemp rope, wood, bronze and more are studies of both form and material. And beneath the surface, his works touch upon complicated topics, including religion and Black history: Several of his pieces acknowledge iconic Black figures such as Sally Hemings (Thomas Jefferson’s slave and mother to six of his children) and Booker T. Washington, a former slave who became a prominent leader in the Black community and founded what is now Tuskegee University.
Puryear represented the United States at the 1989 Bienal de São Paulo, where he won the festival’s Grand Prize, and at the 2019 Venice Biennale. He has also received the National Medal of Arts, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture. Puryear’s works can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields in Indiana and the Anderson Collection at Stanford University in California.
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Martin PuryearLos Angeles Olympic Games 1984 (hand signed with official Olympic Committee COA), 1982
$2,500
Los Angeles Olympic Games 1984 (hand signed with official Olympic Committee COA)
By Martin Puryear
Located in New York, NY
Martin Puryear Los Angeles Olympic Games 1984, 1982 Offset Lithograph on Parsons Diploma Parchment Paper Hand signed on the front with COA, Edition of 750 (though only approximately 200-250 remain) 21 × 34 1/2 inches Unframed This limited edition, pencil signed offset lithograph was published in a limited edition of 750, and printed as one of the fifteen Official Fine Art Olympic Posters for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. A statement released by the 1984 Olympic committee explains the set as follows - "The posters commissioned for the 1984 Olympics contain an enlightened selection of the best American artists with special emphasis on those who work in Southern California...As the Games develop, transpire and pass into memory, these fifteen posters contain the images, forms and symbols that will represent the 1984 Olympics in the museums, galleries, homes and the minds of people all over the world.” Printed and Published by Knapp Communications Corporation and includes Certificate of Authenticity from the publisher. This work is NOT to be confused with the ubiquitous plate signed poster of the same image, which was printed on different paper in an open edition.) In 1982, the Olympic Committee commissioned 15 artists to create posters for the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. Hockney designed this offset lithograph depicting Olympic swimming...
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Parchment Paper, Lithograph, Offset
Side (Beijing)
By Martin Puryear
Located in Berkeley, CA
COLOR HARDGROUND ETCHING WITH AQUATINT AND DRYPOINT. RIVES BFK PAPER IMAGE SIZE: 24” x 24”; PAPER SIZE: 35” x 34” EDITION OF 40
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2010s Martin Puryear Art
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Etching
End (Beijing)
By Martin Puryear
Located in Berkeley, CA
COLOR HARDGROUND ETCHING WITH AQUATINT AND DRYPOINT. RIVES BFK PAPER IMAGE SIZE: 24” x 18”; PAPER SIZE: 35” x 28” EDITION OF 40
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2010s Martin Puryear Art
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Etching
Lean To
By Martin Puryear
Located in San Francisco, CA
Edition of 50
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Etching
Martin PuryearDrawing for Sanctuary, 1982
Price Upon Request
Drawing for Sanctuary
By Martin Puryear
Located in San Francisco, CA
Framed: 24 1/2 x 21 5/8 inches
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1980s Martin Puryear Art
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Pencil
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