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Material: Linen
Stanley Boxer "Doggednoonblear" 1975
Located in Dallas, TX
A large scale oil on linen painting entitled "Doggednoonblear" by Stanley Boxer, 1975.
Category
1970s Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
'Easy Rider' Original Vintage Movie Poster, American, 1969
Located in Devon, GB
A touchstone of the American counterculture movement, Dennis Hopper's 1969 revolutionary road drama 'Easy Rider' defined a generation of disillusioned youth, marking a turning point ...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
2002 Louis Vuitton Cup 2002 Auckland - Razzia Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Depicting a gorgeous art deco scene of a sail boat on a blue horizon, this piece was created in 2002 to promote the Louis Vuitton Cup event that year. The Louis Vuitton Cup was a com...
Category
Early 2000s Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Adolf Munzer Deutsches Theater Poster, 1905
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic photolithograph poster hand painted by Adolf Franz Munzer (German 1870-1953). The original Bal-Pare Deutsches theater poster is painted over ...
Category
20th Century German Jugendstil Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Plexiglass, Paper, Wood
1999 Louis Vuitton Bagatelle - Razzia Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
The Louis Vuitton Bagatelle Concours Automobiles Classiques is an annual event held in the Parc de Bagatelle in Paris, France beginning in 1988. This beautiful piece from 1999 evokes...
Category
1990s French Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
James Bond 'Goldfinger' Original Vintage Film Poster, Swedish, 1965
By Gosta Aberg
Located in Devon, GB
Considered the quintessential and definitive Bond film, the third instalment in EON Productions' James Bond series set the template for many of the subsequent films, with its tongue ...
Category
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
'Taxi Driver' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Australian, 1976
Located in Devon, GB
Set amidst the moral decay of New York City following the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal, Martin Scorsese's 1976 psychological thriller "Taxi Driver" starred Robert De Niro as a lonely and disturbed anti-hero cab driver and war vet growing increasingly alienated and unhinged as his dreams of cleaning up the corrupt and sleazy city lead him down a path of violence, plotting to assassinate both a presidential candidate and the pimp of an underage prostitute, played by a 12 year old Jodie Foster. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, it was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor for De Niro and Best Supporting Actor for Foster. De Niro's "You talkin' to me?" scene, where he imagines a confrontation in front of a mirror, gave us one of the most iconic quotes in movie history. This Australian Daybill poster features the same atmospheric Guy Peellaert...
Category
1970s Australian Post-Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Antique Sampler, 1799, by Anne Strong
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Georgian Sampler, 1799, by Anne Strong. The sampler is worked in fine wool and silk on a linen ground, in cross stitch throughout. Unusual curly borde...
Category
1790s English George III Antique Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
1936 Comme a Marseille - Pastis Olive Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Stunning poster for Pastis Olive created in 1930. Featuring wonderful and colourful artwork from Marc, this rare and beautiful design reads "Comme a Marseille" or "Like in Marseille"...
Category
1930s French Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Oversized 1970s Rosalie Atkins Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas "Red Sky"
Located in Miami, FL
Overscale 1970s Rosalie Atkins Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas "Red Sky"
Offered for sale is a 1970s over-scale Rosalie Atkins oil painting on canvas titled "Red sky". This graph...
Category
1970s American Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Wood, Paint
Child's Sampler, American Dated "1887"
Located in Incline Village, NV
Charming child's diminutive needlepoint on linen, American sampler, measuring 10" x 10"; incorporating the proverbial 26 letters of the alphabet and t...
Category
1880s American Folk Art Antique Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
Macrame Wall Hanging, Woven Fiber Art Tapestry, IMPAR NEXUS by TAMAR SAMPLONIUS
Located in WARMENHUIZEN, NL
Impar Nexus is an exploration of accepting imperfections as part of the design. It explores the tension between control and chaos, as I learned to work with the chaos rather than fig...
Category
2010s Dutch Modern Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Cotton, Linen, Wood
James Dean 'Rebel Without A Cause' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1956
Located in Devon, GB
A full-length James Dean smoulders on this exceedingly rare two-panel poster for the first Japanese release of the classic 1955 teenage drama 'Rebel Without A Cause' in April 1956. S...
Category
1950s Japanese Post-Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper, Linen
2000 Rimini - Rene Gruau Original Vintage Poster
By René Gruau
Located in Winchester, GB
Designed by the iconic poster artist Rene Gruau, this poster was created in 2000 to promote the Italian city of Rimini. The beautiful seaside resort city in northern Italy is ever po...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Late 19th Century Thangka with the Portrait of a Tibetan Monk
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful late 19th century Tibetan Thangka depicting a portrait of a seated monk. Wearing the robes of a Tibetan Buddhist monk, the individual depicted in this portrait was probab...
Category
Late 19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Antique Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Silk, Paint
'Batman' Original Vintage Australian Daybill Movie Poster, 1966
Located in Devon, GB
"For the first time on the motion picture screen in color!" Printed in stunning stone lithography, this fabulously kitsch and colourful Australian Daybill...
Category
1960s Australian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper, Linen
'An American in Paris' Original Vintage Australian Daybill Movie Poster, 1951
Located in Devon, GB
Printed in stunning stone lithography, this scarce Australian Daybill poster joyfully declared the original Australian release of MGM's 'An American in Paris' as "the gayest, the most gorgeous, the greatest musical ever." Inspired by a 1928 orchestral composition by George Gershwin, the classic 1951 musical starred Gene Kelly as an American ex-GI who remains in Paris after the war to become an artist and falls for a gamine Parisienne played by a nineteen year old Leslie Caron, who Kelly had spotted performing with the Ballets des Champs-Élysées two years previously. Following the devastation and trauma of the Second World War, producer Arthur Freed...
Category
1950s Australian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
James Rosenquist Vibrant Etching "Rouge Pad" 1978 (Signed and Numbered)
Located in New York, NY
"ROUGE PAD" (GLENN 134), an etching with aquatint, printed in colors, hand-signed in pencil, titled, and numbered in pencil 25/78 by James Rosenquist, American 1978 (Signed on front,...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
'Motorpsycho' Original Vintage Movie Poster, American, 1965
Located in Devon, GB
"Cyclemaniacs assaulting and killing for thrills! Bike riding hoodlums flat-out on their murder cycles."
A motorcycle blasts through the newspaper headlines on this explosive US O...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Vintage Botanical West German Biology Print Chart by Hagemann, Germany, 1960s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Vintage pull down chart
Original vintage school chart, by Jung-Koch Quentell
Paperprint on Linen. The canvas is fixed between two woo...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
Jaws 1975 UK Quad Film Poster, Roger Kastel
Located in Bath, Somerset
The poster with plenty of bite.
The UK Quad for Steven Spielberg’s seminal 70s Shark chiller Jaws, featuring the classic Roger Kastel artwork.
This vintage movie poster is sized 30...
Category
20th Century British Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Raoul Dufy "La Danse" 1919 Bianchini-Ferrier Printed Fabric
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Sharon, CT
A 72" x 48" silkscreen printed linen circa 1919 by Bianchini-Ferrier of the iconic 'La Danse' by Raoul Dufy.
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
Sandra Gierke Painting "Restive"
By Sandra Gierke
Located in Highland, IN
This wonderful abstraction by Sandra Gierke is executed in oil on linen. A very active painting with a vivacous composition, staccato shapes and lines, and a fantacstic, heavily work...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
Louis Vuitton Cup San Diego 1995 - Razzia Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Depicting a gorgeous art deco scene of sail boats racing below with vibrant red and blue sails, this piece was created in 1995 to promote the Louis Vuitton Cup event that year. The L...
Category
1990s American Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
718 - 19th Century Bukhara Textile
Located in Paris, FR
718 - 19th century bukhara textile.
Category
1850s Islamic Antique Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
1950s "Kvadrater" Tapestry by Barbro Nilsson
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful vintage tapestry in a design called "Kvadrater" by Barbro Nilsson for Märta Måås Fjetterström Studio in Båstad, Sweden. Design consists of squares in muted purple, green an...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Linen
1960 Psycho Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Arguably the greatest and most famous film from arguably the greatest and most famous director, "Psycho" was released in 1960 and became Alfred Hitchcock's biggest box office hit. The first "slasher" film from the Master of Suspense starred Anthony Perkins...
Category
1960s American Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Painting by Walangkura Napanangka
Located in Atlanta, GA
A striking abstract painting by Australian Aboriginal painter Walangkura Napanangka (1940-2014), one of the matching pair painted in 2007 in Alice Spring. Entitled "Kutungka", acrylic on Belgium linen, inscribed on reverse with gallery catalog no.
"Kutungka" depicts the landscape of a country where an old woman named "Kutungka" travelled from Malparingya to Kaltarra in Western Desert during the Dreamtime creation. The highly abstract forms are the dreamtime memory of the land features, such as rock piles and waterholes.
Provenance: Grasstree Gallery, Australia.
It comes with a COA from the gallery as well as progressive photos taken during the creation of this painting by the artist in 2007.
Brief biography From Australian Art Gallery artist...
Category
Early 2000s Australian Modern Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Wood
1977 Star Wars Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
One of the most iconic and sought after film posters of all time and the "one" for Star Wars collectors. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and so many more, Star War...
Category
1970s British Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
'Please, Not Now!' Original Vintage Australian Daybill Movie Poster, 1963
Located in Devon, GB
A sultry Brigitte Bardot sizzles on this striking stone lithography poster for the French screwball rom-com 'La Bride sur le cou,' released in Australia and the UK as 'Please, Not Now!' and in the US as 'Only For Love'. Bardot starred as the saucy young model who enlists a handsome doctor in a zany plan to make her boyfriend jealous when he goes off with an American heiress. Directed by Bardot''s former husband Roger Vadim...
Category
1960s Australian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Purvis Young Oil on Linen
By Purvis Young
Located in North Miami, FL
Depiction of horses by acclaimed Miami street artist Purvis Young.
Gustavo Olivieri sourced directly from Mr. Young while he was alive and enjoyed watching him work - see detail ima...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
Perrier - Zeste 1987 Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
This beautiful art deco piece for Perrier was designed by the iconic poster and graphic designer Bernard Villemot. Best known for his collaborations with the likes of Orangina, Bally...
Category
1980s Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
$521 Sale Price
20% Off
Barbro Nilsson, Marta Maas-Fjetterström, Vintage 1950s MMF Swedish Textile
Located in London, GB
A vintage mid-20th century handwoven textile from Marta Maas-Fjetterström's workshop in Båstad, Sweden, designed by Barbro Nilsson.
The tapestry's geometric composition is made up...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Linen
'The Jungle Book' Original Vintage British Double Crown Movie Poster, 1967
Located in Devon, GB
An incredibly rare and charming British Double Crown poster for the 1967 Walt Disney animated classic 'The Jungle Book,' based on Rudyard Kipling's 1894 book of the same name, and th...
Category
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper, Linen
Gudrun Pagter, Woven Tapestry " Højsommer"
Located in Kastrup, DK
Gudrun Pagter (Born 1946)
Hand-woven tapestry made of sisal and linen. high summer.
Concrete and geometric design idiom with polychrome colors.
1985 - Title "Højsommer" Midsummer
...
Category
Late 20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Linen
Painted Canvas, Art Deco Woman, Contemporary Work
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Painted canvas figuring a side view Art Deco woman. She wears a coat with gilt and black geomtrical motifs, with large flounced sleeves and a large feathers collar. She turns her fac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
Vintage Scandinavian Verner Panton Textile.7 ft 9 in x 7 ft 9 in
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Scandinavian Verner Panton “mira Spectrum” Textile, Country of Origin: Scandinavia, Circa date: Mid-20th Century. Size: 7 ft 9 in x 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m x 2....
Category
20th Century Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
Le Mans 1971 US 1 Sheet Film Poster, Tom Jung
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderful first-year-of-release country-of-origin US 1 Sheet film poster for Steve McQueen's racing classic Le Mans. Beautifully illustrated by Tom Jung.
This vintage movie poster h...
Category
20th Century American Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
1960 New England - Go Greyhound Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Beautiful and very rare mid century marvel from 1960, this poster was created by Greyhound to promote their bus routes to New England in the USA. Greyhound was founded in 1914 and st...
Category
1960s Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
1892 Halles Aux Chapeaux - Jules Cheret Original Vintage Poster
By Jules Chéret
Located in Winchester, GB
Stunning stone lithograph from the "Father of the modern poster" Jules Cheret for the Halle Aux Chapeaux on 17. Rue de Belleville in Paris. Translat...
Category
1890s French Antique Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
$1,086 Sale Price
20% Off
Cie Gle Transatlantique 1950s French Line Large Travel Poster, Paul Colin
Located in Bath, Somerset
Cie Gle Transatlantique 1950s French Line Travel poster, designed by Paul Colin. A lovely design with wonderful bright colours! A rare poster, especially in this larger size and cond...
Category
20th Century French Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
1925 Cycles France Sport Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Gorgeous poster from 1925 advertising "France Sport Cycles". Depicting 3 cyclists on their various bicycle frame models in a countryside scene, the poste...
Category
1920s French Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin Linen Textile Swatch 1955 Design 105 Schumacher, Red
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large panel swatch Design 105 dating to Frank Lloyd Wright’s original 1955 collection for Schumacher. Extremely rare original large scale fabric, with surged edges to facilitate long...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
$1,864 Sale Price
41% Off
1999 Oil on Linen by Natalie Frank “Claire” Slade, London
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A lovely oil on line titled “Claire” by Natalie Frank. It was painted in Slade London in the Summer of 1999. It has a nice gold frame. Canvas size is 28x36 inches. Frame size is giv...
Category
1990s British Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paint
$1,950 Sale Price
40% Off
Jaws 1975 French Grande Film Poster, Roger Kastel
Located in Bath, Somerset
On the scale of the French Grande this is the poster with extra bite! Roger Kastel's design for Jaws (Les Dents de la Mer) looks particularly impressive on the large French format.
...
Category
20th Century French Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
Art-Deco Original Poster RAYON DES SOLERIES by Maurice Dufrene, 1930
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Art-Deco Original Poster RAYON DES SOLERIES by Maurice Dufrene, 1930
This is an original vintage poster, it has been linen backed for preservation. This poster, produced in 1930, w...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 18th Century Band Sampler, 1713, by Ann Arner
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Queen Anne Band Sampler, 1713, by Ann Arner. The sampler is worked in silk on a linen ground, in a variety of stitches. Divider lines in various patterns. Colours black, red, pale gr...
Category
1710s English Antique Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
1960 Wall Tapestry Poland
Located in L’ISLE-SUR-LA-SORGUE, FR
Scandinavian tapestry from the 1960s,
handwoven with a dense weave,
featuring a harmonious palette of natural colors.
Perfect condition
Artist: A. Raczkowska
Category
1960s Polish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Linen
'The Shining' Original Vintage British Quad Film Poster, 1980
Located in Devon, GB
A scarce and unusual 'Weekend Mirror' style teaser quad for the British release of Stanley Kubrick's 1980 modern horror masterpiece 'The Shining,' starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King, the seminal psychological horror initially opened to mixed reviews, before growing momentum over the summer of 1980 to become an American box-office success. With anticipation building for the October 1980 British release, Warner Bros. made the canny marketing decision to reproduce a tabloid newspaper spread from the Saturday, August 30, 1980, edition of the Daily Mirror, on "the tide...
Category
1980s British Post-Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper, Linen
1946 Cunard - Queen Elizabeth - Queen Mary Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Stunning poster created in 1946 to promote Cunard and their cruises "Queen Elizabeth" and "Queen Mary" which operated from Cherbourg in France to New York...
Category
1940s Unknown Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
$3,512 Sale Price
20% Off
Brutalist Curtis Jere Style Brass Peony Flower Wall Hanging Sculpture
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Stunning large scale Curtis Jere style brutalist brass peony flower wall hanging. 3 dimensional sculptural peony flowers are displayed on a linen backgrou...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Brass
THE OUTLAW 1952 Japanese TATEKAN Film Movie Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Super rare, first-year-of-release (in Japan) Japanese Takekan (2 sheet) film poster for Howard Hughes The Outlaw. This original poster is incredibly rare, esepcially in this larger f...
Category
20th Century Japanese Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper, Linen
'The Ipcress File' Original Vintage Movie Poster, South African, 1965
Located in Devon, GB
An exceedingly rare poster for the South African release of the 1965 British espionage thriller 'The Ipcress File' starring Michael Caine as agent Harry P...
Category
1960s South African Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper, Linen
1960 TWA - New York Original Vintage Poster
By David Klein
Located in Winchester, GB
This poster was created in 1960 for Howard Hughes’ Trans World Airlines promoting their routes to New York. Illustrated by influential American artist David Klein, this design featur...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
$18,653 Sale Price
20% Off
1930 Kinagin Liquor Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Beautiful & rare poster from 1930 to promote the Swiss liquor brand Kinagin. The poster advertises the ingredients of the drink, reading "The vermouth with quinine and gin". One of t...
Category
1930s Swiss Art Deco Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
$1,481 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Vintage French Advertising Poster, Verigoud by Savignac, 1955
By Hervé Morvan
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage French advertising poster, VERIGOUD by Savignac, 1955
This is an original poster, linen backed for pres...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
$2,560 Sale Price / item
20% Off
2004 Louis Vuitton Classic 2004 - Razzia Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Held at Waddesdon Manor in Oxford in June 2004, the Louis Vuitton Classic was a classic cat event held by the luxury French brand. Featuring a go...
Category
Early 2000s British Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Paper
$790 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Oil on Canvas by Frank Walcutt
Located in Skokie, IL
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Oil on Canvas by Frank Walcutt
At first glance, this abstract oil painting on canvas is a delight to the eye. Frank Walcutt'...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Wood, Paint
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Grand Scale Flemish 18th Century Country House Painted Toile Wall Hanging
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
A grand scale country house Flemish 18th Century hand painted toile wall hanging.
These hand painted wall hangings were commissioned by large country houses and castles to line the c...
Category
1730s Antique Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Linen
Large Frank Faulkner (1946 - 2018) Mixed Media on LInen in Frame
Located in Dallas, TX
Media consists of fiber, paint, shellac on a linen canvas. Beautiful wood frame.
Frank Faulkner by Philip Herrera, 2006:
Born in Sumter, South Carolina in 1946, Frank Faulkner received his B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1968, Phi Beta Kappa, and his M.F.A. from the same institution in 1972. Faulkner’s work quickly won him numerous grants and awards, including an individual artist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974. He was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 1975, which prompted him to settle in New York. There, he came to the attention of Dorothy Miller, Curator Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art with a legendary eye for new talent. Since then, Faulkner has continued to garner acclaim and awards. He has been featured in dozens of one-person exhibitions (not to mention group exhibitions) in this country, as well as in Japan, Switzerland, and Germany.
Faulkner’s work is owned by leading museums (the Smith College museum in Northampton, Massachusetts, for example, the National Museum of American Art and the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C.) and by renowned collectors such as Nelson Rockefeller, Baron Leon Lambert, Phillip Hanes and Abba Eban.
What a viewer first notices is the sheer elegance of the pieces, no matter what materials Faulkner uses—metal, wood and fabric as well as canvas and paper. Obvious, too, is the artist’s originality. Faulkner belongs to no school. His work is patterned but is far too intellectual to qualify as so-called “pattern art,” which mainly strives to be merely pretty. Rather, he paints in his own highly organized way, filling the surface without being excessive or boring.
Faulkner sets up a system, say, of dots or dashes, then subtly changes the visual rhythms in order to add life and surprise—what he calls “the gymnastics of seeing.” He works and reworks the surfaces of his canvases, often laying down one thin layer of slightly reflective gold, silver or bronze paint upon another until the final work seems to glow with inner light. John Ashbery, a leading critic and poet, has likened Faulkner’s art to minimalist music, which achieves both simplicity and beauty from its obsessive repetitions. The critic Carter Ratcliff describes it more simply as “brilliant artifice.” Faulkner’s current work, a series of paintings on paper, continues and deepens this exploration of the relationship between wrought surface and changing light.
Another striking aspect of the work is the influence of the decorative arts. Faulkner has made some paintings on wood that stand independently and fold open like screens. Other pieces resemble large tapestries, and yet others take their inspiration from Art Nouveau inlays...
Category
20th Century North American Modern Linen Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen, Natural Fiber, Paint
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