Manhattan - Prints and Multiples

Sarah Morris November 2021, 2021 Lithograph on wove paper Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity - hand signed by Sarah Morris (the artist) as well as the head of ICA Editions...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...

ABOUT THIS PIECE: "This particular series is a an homage to photographs taken with film. They are the result of an aberration of light passing through a locked shutter and the camera...

Peter Blake To Her Majesty, The Queen Elizabeth II, 2016 Color giclee print on wove paper with full margins 11 73/100 × 6 3/5 inches Pencil signed, titled, dated and numbered 119/150...

Peter Halley Core, 1991 Limited Edition Silkscreen with lithography on Coventry Rag paper. Pencil signed and numbered 13/50 on the front Publisher: Edition Schellmann & Pace Editions...

Basquiat, The Chi-Chi Show, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, March 1985: Original 1980s Basquiat announcement card published on the occasion of: 'The Chi Chi Show': Massimo Audi...

Alex Katz Dancer 1 2019 Silkscreen in colors on Saunders Waterford HP High White 425 gsm paper 60 x 36 inches (153 x 92 cm) Edition of 60

ABOUT THIS PIECE: Disco is from Kimberly's "personal moments of happiness" series. LA based photographer Kimberly Genevieve is known for her use of color and interesting cropping. A...

Three-color solar plate intaglio on Somerset paper (Edition of 75 + 15 APs) Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, recto 30 x 22 inches, sheet 16 x 10.75 inches, image This artwork...

Richard Lindner 3 Biennale Internationale de L'estampe (International Biennale of Graphic Arts), Miss American Indian, 1968 Silkscreen on wove paper Unnumbered 35 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches...

Sam Gilliam Offset Lithograph Warmly Inscribed to Renowned African American Arts Educator, 1988 Offset Lithograph Card Hand written, signed and inscribed card with a warm personal message from the artist Frame Included Hand written, signed and inscribed offset lithograph card with a warm personal message from Sam Gilliam to Lindsay Waldorf Patterson. Measurements: Frame: 14 7/8 x 12 x 1/2 inches Card: 8 x 5 inches The inscription reads: To Lindsay: With Warmest Regards Sam Gilliam Lindsay Waldorf Patterson was an American English literature educator and author as well as a MacDowell Colony fellow (3 awards); Edward Albee Foundation fellow (2 awards); recipient award National Foundation on Arts & Humanities. Hand signed on the front Provenance: From the estate of Lindsay Waldorf Patterson. Lindsay Waldorf Patterson was an American English literature educator and author as well as an MacDowell Colony fellow (3 awards); Edward Albee Foundation fellow (2 awards); recipient award National Foundation on Arts & Humanities. Formerly an account executive, Harrison Advertising Agency, New York City, 1964; feature writer and columnist assistant to Langston Hughes, Associated Negro Press, 1965; special feature writer (film) Uptight,, Paramount Pictures, 1968; co-host Celebrity Hour program, Station WRVR-FM, New York City, 1974-1977; co-host Black Conversations program, Station WPIX-television, New York City, 1976-1979; assistant Professor of English, Queens College, Flushing, New York, since 1990. Adjunct Professor Afro-American & Caribbean literature, black theater...

This is a super rare and imaginative print - LAST ONE - from the edition of only 10  (TEN) - and it makes an amazing gift!  Paul Leibow Coffee + Cigarettes, 2019 Lithograph on Newsprint Grey Somerset Velvet Printed at Tamarind Institute. Hand printed by Elena Carrasco under the supervision of Master Printer Brandon Gunn Pencil signed and numbered lower right from the edition of only 10 Bears Tamarind Institute chop mark lower left Accompanied by copy of detailed Tamarind documentation sheet Measurements: 28.25" (vertical) x 22" (horizontal) Unframed Critic Tris Mccall writes in a recent review: "Felix the Cat is older than Mickey. He was created over a century ago, and he's been fading in plain view ever since sound was added to motion pictures. But in his Gilded Age prime, Felix was incredibly popular: famous enough to leave a burn mark in his image on the collective imagination. The spirit of the Cat retains enough psychic power to guide the hand of at least one contemporary artist - painter and sculptor Paul Leibow... This playful, irreverent work uses the figure of Felix, or what's left of him, to comment on sexuality, decay and reassembly, mechanical reproduction and corporate branding, and the ubiquity and ambiguity of the commercialized image..." Lithograph with image concept invention of a non existent character: Feel licks ears over ads of vintage comics, creating a unique abstract work, including ghosted figures and cigarettes and coffee falling from an imagined earthquake. The attempt was to use a series from vintage characters that inform the piece, with a body inside the Feel Licks cat face structure. Includes a brain W-ray with lamb faces as a surreal interplay. 6-color print, derived from the artist Mark Rothko in a blend roll or orange and red hue. Limited edition print, signed recto from the edition of only 10 PAUL LEIBOW BIOGRAPHY Paul Leibow works in painting, sculpture, mixed media, and film. A documentary art video about his archival process was selected for the Metropolitan Museum of Arts (a program for art on film). Over his art career, his work has been selected for art books and exhibitions by curators from the Whitney Museum and Met. Leibow has created artworks for recording artist Bruce Springsteen for his world tour, including books, and branded icons/logos utilized for his concerts. 2019 awarded an art residency at Tamarind Institute New Mexico, with two editions archived in the New Mexico Art Museum (UNM). 2020 artworks featured in ArtMaze Magazine’s Winter Issue 16. Hyperallergic -FeelLicks Artwork “Pink”: painting included in review (Art Fair 14C) 2022 Born: New York City / School of Visual Arts - NY, BFA, / Summer Works: Art and design program– NY State / Studied with Milton Glaser 2023 Noyes Museum. NJAA Stockton. 2022 Jersey City Times Review from art critic Tris McCall at (Art Fair 14C) Nov. 2022 2021 Jersey City Times(BEST 2021 SHOW) #5 by art critic Tris McCall 2021 Novado Gallery - Review Solo Show review, Tris McCall_Jersey City Times 2021 ArtsBergen Sneak Peak: Award / Art video and panel discussion 2020 One Fair Wage: Created artwork for vertical billboard shown all over USA 2020 OFW: Featured artwork for new brand as vertical billboard in Times Square NYC 2019 New Mexico Art Museum (UNM) – Two Tamarind Editions archived into the museum. 2019 Tamarind Institute – Artist Residency (one of 4 artist awarded residency) 2019 Tamarind Institute Gallery – No Modifiers exhibition 2019 PABT Arts – New York City, Windows Gallery Aug. – November 2019 Le Galerista – French Canada –art used on apparel line 2016 MoRUS Museum, – Black Babylonian Beads- film premier, Museum reclaimed urban-space 2010 Borghi Fine Arts Gallery – NJ 2004 Waltouch Gallery – NJ 1998 Liquid Gallery – NJ Sibling Rivalry-a show with his brother. 1989 John Harms Center for the Arts, Bergen PAC – NJ 1987 John Harms Center for the Arts, Bergen PAC- NJ 1995 Watchung Arts Center NJ Installation (Elucidations of the empty) 1995 Montclair State University Art Gallery – NJ Abstract Polarities -Jurior by Ivan Karp SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2022 Hyperallergic -Artwork painting included in review from Art Fair 14C Nov. 2022 2022 ART FAIR 14C Artwork selected for juried exhibition fundraiser Art Fair 14C Nov. 2022 2021 Novado Gallery_ Solo Show Sept 10th / Jersey City Times review by Tris McCall 2021 SHRINE.NYC / Group Show 7 2021 WNYC –poem entitled THIS, aired on April’s (poetry month) 2021 SHRINE – NYC / Group Show - online Exhibition 2020 Montclair Art Museum – JAM at MAM auction / online Exhibition 2020 Art maze Magazine’s Winter Issue 16 - international artists featured in the print edition 2020 Artcritical –David Cohen selected work for Alpha 137 Gallery show 2020 The Museum of Hoboken: Featured in Every Mask a Blank Canvas Exhibition 2020 BSB gallery – Silent auction / Online Exhibition 2020 Transformative – Online Exhibition 2020 Novado Gallery – N.J. handling work included in Exhibition RED 2020 Sugar Press – CA Print editions 2019 Paper west –Utah 2019 Frontline Arts –Oct. (The war on the world) 2019 Edward Williams Gallery – FDU, NJ Red carpet hides beneath our desire 2019 Tamarind Institute, Artist Residency New Mexico, May exhibition ”No Modifiers” 2019 Studio Montclair Gallery, NJ, Everyday Objects 2019 Studios Projects Gallery “HA exhibition” and artist talk – Hoboken NJ 2018 Paper west – Utah 2018 1340 Galley – Art registry 2018 The Rotunda Gallery – Abstract show- June, Photography shows July 2018 Edward Williams Gallery – Group FDU 2018 Union Street Galley – Pen & Ink show- March, Chicago Il. 2018 bG Galley: Stripes show – Santa Monica CA 2017 Alvin...

ABOUT THIS PIECE: The cat is a photographic series shot in Milan for Vogue Bambini in January 2016. ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carolina Mizrahi creates fantasy ...

ABOUT THIS PIECE: Hong Kong has the most basketball courts of any city in the world. This bold claim is difficult to verify, but in his Hong Kong Basketball Court series, Austin Bell...

Dennis Oppenheim A Device for Converting a Chilling Underground Wind into Memory, 1986 Lithograph Hand signed, numbered 3/100 and dated on lower front 38 1/5 × 50 inches Unframed P...

Raymond Pettibon Black Flag 1984: Rare early 1980's Black Flag promotional poster illustrated by Raymond Pettibon for the seminal Black Flag record: My War. A striking, historic 1980s Raymond Pettibon Black Flag poster sure to standout in any setting. Offset printed punk poster...

This is a classic New-Deal image: claustrophobic sweatshop with a row of hunched tailors. The windows and lamps offer light at least. But there is a major difference between this and...

ABOUT THIS PIECE: Color is the foundation of my work. My circles start as a mood or idea that eventually evolves into a colored circle. I am curious how different colours interact wh...

DeLoss McGraw Leaving Home (97-301), 1997 Five color lithograph on tan Rives BFK paper with deckled edges Signed and numbered 3/75 in graphite pencil on the front 17 × 24 3/25 inches...

Keith Haring Bearbrick Vinyl Figures: Set of two (400% & 100%): A unique, timeless collectible trademarked & licensed by the Estate of Keith Haring. The partnered collectible reveals...

Alexander Calder Lithograph c. 1973 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. From: De...

Pintori, Giovanni. Olivetti. 1967. 2nd printing. 1st Printing 1946. Offset Lithograph. Rare Giovanni Pintori (1912 – 1999) was an Italian graphic designer and painter. His most famous works are the advertisement posters for Olivetti typewriters...

Francesco Clemente Clemente (Hand Signed by Francesco Clemente and inscribed with a small drawing), 1998 Large Illustrated Softback Exhibition Catalogue. (Hand signed and inscribed t...

One screen print in colors on wove paper, 2009, signed in pencil, dated and numbered, Edition of 117 (total edition includes 18 artist's proofs), image: 769 by 769 mm 30 1/4 by 30 1/...

Sister Mary Corita Kent Sister Corita hand signed poster, 1985 Offset Lithograph Signed in pencil by the artist on the lower right 24 x 18 inches Unframed This offset lithograph post...

"Over Cape Cod" is an etching created by Frank W. Benson in 1932. Benson only printed trial proofs of this plate - there is no edition. This impression is a first state of four. There are six impressions of the first state, three impressions of the second, four impressions of the third, and eight of the fourth state have been recorded. Signed in pencil in the lower left under the image. The image size is 7 15/16 x 14 7/8" (20.1 x 37.8 cm) and sheet size 11 9/16 x 18 3/8" (29.3 x 46.7 cm). FRANK W. BENSON (1862-1951) Frank Weston Benson, well known for his American impressionist paintings, also produced an incredible body of prints - etchings, drypoints, and a few lithographs. Born and raised on the North Shore of Massachusetts, Benson, a natural outdoorsman, grew up sailing, fishing, and hunting. From a young age, he was fascinated with drawing and birding – this keen interest continued throughout his life. His first art instruction was with Otto Grundman at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and then in 1883 in Paris at the Academie Julian where he studied the rigorous ‘ecole des beaux arts’ approach to drawing and painting for two years. During the early 1880’s Seymour Haden visited Boston giving a series of lectures on etching. This introduction to the European etching...

Anish Kapoor Poster for Svayambh at the Royal Academy, London (hand signed by Anish Kapoor), 2009 Offset lithograph poster Boldly signed by Anish Kapoor on the lower right front 21 ×...

Robert Indiana Decade: Autoportrait, 1969 (Sheehan, 78), 1973 Color lithograph on off white wove paper Signed and numbered 84/125 in pencil on the front Frame included: This work is...

Jim Dine Hearts (Hand Signed), 1983 Offset lithograph 28 × 22 inches Boldly signed in black marker on the front Unframed This vintage hand signed 1983 poster...

Sliced sausage, a fork and knife, a cutting board, and a cow mid-slurp comprise this elegant yet tongue-in-cheek black and white Dieter Roth etching. Diet...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Jessica Brilli (Sayville, NY 1977) has been drawing and painting since her childhood. Working in a style that encompasses American realism and 20th century graphic...

Be@rbrick x Andy Warhol Foundation "Elvis" Vinyl Figures: Set of two (400% & 100%): Andy Warhol (after) Elvis collectible trademarked & licensed by the Estate of Andy Warhol. The partnered collectible reveals Warhol's iconic Triple Elvis wrapping the figure in its entirety. Housed in a standout Warhol Elvis collectors' box. Medium: Vinyl Sculpture. Set of two figurines. Dimensions of larger piece: 11 x 5 inches. Condition: New in its original packaging. Warhol foundation trademark featured on lower left of reverse. Published by Medicom from a sold out edition of unknown. Further Background: BE@RBRICKs are a form of collectible toy that resemble a cross between LEGO and well, a bear. These block-style figurines boast teddy bear-style heads that have become an integral pillar of the collectible toy scene. In fact, it wouldn’t be so far-fetched to say that it almost single-handedly carved out the fad of toy collecting in modern times, treading the very fine line between toy and art. Since its inception, BE@RBRICKs have become one of the most recognizable characters in the world, and some of the most sought after. Please note exact patterns may vary. Andy Warhol Triple Elvis: Standing with his trademark proud stance, Andy Warhol’s rare triple portrait of Elvis Presley dominates just as the singer dominated the cultural landscape of the 1950s and 1960s. First shown at the artist’s seminal 1963 exhibition at Irving Blum’s Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, Warhol’s Elvis paintings...

Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “LAS CABANAS” in 1996-98. This impression is signed, titled, and inscribed in pencil. Estate stamped on verso. The...

Natvar Bhavsar Untitled mid 1960s abstraction, 1967 Silkscreen Pencil signed, dated and numbered 10/30 by Natvar Bhavsar on the front Frame included: Elegantly framed in a museum qua...

Jules Olitski Elegy, September 11, 2001, 2002 Silkscreen on wove paper Edition 103/108 Signed, titled and numbered in graphite pencil 103/108 on the front Framed Jules Olitski is hon...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...

THOMAS NOZKOWSKI Mostly Mozart (Hand signed and inscribed), 2007 Offset Lithograph. Hand signed dated 2016 and inscribed to Kevin 29 × 35 inches Personally signed and dedicated by No...

Dieter Roth Goodbye Sharpie, 1972 44.5 x 54.3 / 113 x 138 cm Planographic printing from zinc, white on dyed grey card Edition of 30, this copy marked "Artist's Copy" and annotated II/IV Dieter Roth was a printmaker from childhood: his first etching at the age of 16 was scratched into a soda can, and despite the failure of the can to print anything but a shadow of ink, he continued his study and by 20 was a serious apprentice in lithography to a well-known commercial artist, Eugen Jordi. Later he would continue to print and publish much of his own work. From the 1960s onward, his collaborations with Petersburg Press brought him international recognition and produced some of his most celebrated work: Six Piccadillies (1970), and Containers (1972). Interested in chance and spontaneity, Roth was drawn to make prints using unorthodox means: according to mathematical principles, using equations, or by randomly rearranging blocks before they were run through the press. The artist often printed plates repeatedly in different colors, producing many variations from just a few images. He used the printing press and materials to interrogate the creative process rather than just as tools to achieve an edition of identical prints: for example, overprinting or under-inking, or running objects through the press (in 1968, a box of chocolates). Roth was not just interested in the chance of making pictures but the unpredictability of decay: allowing the grease from slices of meat to slowly contaminate paper, immersing a print in vegetable juice, clamping metal to paper to produce rust, and pouring chocolate over a finished work. Roth would make hundreds of print editions and books over his career and blurred the line between genres and mediums, embarking on prodigious collaborations and experimentation with music, poetry...

From his body of "Illustrated Set" work, this print by Terry Winters takes the printmaking process itself as subject. Winters became inspired by how his prints appeared before press,...

Massimo Listri Reggia di Portici V, Naples, Italy, 2013 40 x 47 inches 100 x 120 cm Edition of 5 47 x 59 inches 120 x 150 cm Edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches 180 x 225 cm Edition of ...

Judy Chicago In Praise of Prairie Dogs (19-325), 2019 11 Color Lithograph on light blue Pescia paper Hand signed, dated and numbered from the limited edition of 95 on the front 22 × ...

Silhouetted by the night sky, a brimmed hat perches on its stand, hovering above red-speckled ground like an aircraft. The moon shines bright white, and subtle clouds gather at the h...

ABOUT THIS PIECE: Color is the foundation of this Canadian artist's work. Her circles start as a mood or idea that eventually evolve into a colored circle. She is curious how different colors interact when they're placed next to each other. Within a digital medium she experiments with intensity of colors and the different sensations colors evoke. Why a circle? When she explores her fascination with this shape, she discovers that the circle represents all that is familiar and comforting. It is the shape of the rising sun, of a mother's nipple, of the iris of the eye, and of a full moon. ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Ruth Adler is a Canadian artist whose mediums include paintings, works on paper, animated films and textiles. She is inspired by the city of Tel Aviv, music (she plays the harmonica) and her personal memories. Jim Kempner Fine Art...

Ajay Malghan is an American artist and son of immigrant parents from India. His mother was usually found combining cultures at home, and his father, a Materials Scientist and Enginee...

Kenneth Noland Untitled, 1987 Monotype with hand painting on wove paper Signed and dated in pencil on the reverse, with the artist's initials blind stamped lower right Unique Frame i...

Keith Haring 1985: Keith Haring off-set illustrated announcement card, NY, 1985: "NY for NY, Help The Homeless" at The Roxy, West 18th St., NYC. Off-set printed, 1985 (folds open in...

Aaron Wexler received his B.F.A. in painting from Tyler School of Art - Philadelphia, PA. & M.F.A in painting from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally - including Josée Bienvenu Gallery, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Morgan Lehman Gallery, The National Academy Museum, The Katonah Museum of Art, among many others. Works have been acquired by numerous collections such as The Saatchi Collection, The West Collection, Fidelity Investments Art...

Rainbow shades shine in delicate clusters of vertical lines, in this abstract, geometric lithograph. Vibrant yellow, green, magenta pink, blue and brown take on the organic quality o...

Jules Olitski Mozart Night, 1992 Silkscreen on wove paper Signed, dated, titled and numbered 71/108 in graphite pencil on the front Edition 71/108 47 × 36 inches Unframed Silkscreen ...

Hugo Dermaco Relation Couleur, 1973 Silkscreen on velincarton Hand-signed by artist, Hand signed and numbered 62/200 on lower front. Bears the publisher's blind stamp on the front. 29 1/2 × 29 1/2 inches Unframed This beautiful silkscreen on velincarton (thin board) by Hugo Demarco...

Michael Heizer III-8 (two pages), 1983 Monoprint on two individual sheets of white handmade TGL paper, hand colored with colored pencils, paint sticks, and liquid and spray acrylic p...

1-2-3 Outside reproduces James Rosenquist’s 1963 oil painting of the same name, collected in the Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence. Rosenquist sourced the ima...

Kehinde Wiley Passing/Posing, Paintings & Faux Chapel (suite of 18 separate prints), 2004 Portfolio of 18 Separate Color offset lithographs in original black paste board portfolio bo...

The simple geometries and bright colors that recur throughout FEMM’s, have an inherently contemporary and urban feel. It’s no wonder, then, that the metropolitan city is one of FEMM’s greatest sources of inspiration. Whether it’s the zestful energy, the colorful clothes...

Robert Indiana’s "Book of Love" is a multifaceted portfolio that pairs twelve vibrant screenprints with twelve accompanying poems, forming a deeply personal meditation on the nature ...

Keith Haring 1000% Bearbrick Vinyl Sculpture: A nicely sized (27 inch), highly collectible Keith haring Bearbrick statue piece. The partnered co...

Kenneth Snelson New York State Council on the Arts vintage poster, 1971 Offset lithograph on wove paper Unsigned, Unnumbered 35 × 25 inches Unframed Scarce original 1970s offset lit...

Damien Hirst 'Ethidium Bromide Aqueous Solution' Spots Etching, 2005. Signed by the Artist on front. Artist proof aside from the edition of 65. Published by the Paragon Press, 2005. ...

Jack Beal Frogs and Toad, 1971 Hand signed in pencil by Jack Beal, annotated AP One-color lithograph proofed by hand and pulled by machine from a zinc plate on Arches buff paper with deckled edges at the Shorewood Bank Street Atelier Stamped, hand numbered AP, aside from the regular edition of 150 Stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY JACK BEAL, bears blind stamp 18 × 24 inches Unframed 18 x 24 inches Stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY JACK BEAL, bears distinctive blind stamp of publisher (shown) Publisher: David Godine, Center for Constitutional Rights, Washington, D.C. Jack Beal's "Frogs and Toads" is a classic example of protest art from the early 1970s - the most influential era until today. This historic graphic was created for the legendary portfolio "CONSPIRACY: the Artist as Witness", to raise money for the legal defense of the Chicago 8 - a group of anti-Vietnam War activists indicted by President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell for conspiring to riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (1968 was also the year Bobby Kennedy was killed and American casualties in Vietnam exceeded 30,000.) The eight demonstrators included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. (The eighth activist, Bobby Seale, was severed from the case and sentenced to four years for contempt after being handcuffed, shackled to a chair and gagged.) Although Abbie Hoffman would later joke that these radicals couldn't even agree on lunch, the jury convicted them of conspiracy, with one juror proclaiming the demonstrators "should have been shot down by the police." All of the convictions were ultimately overturned by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. This lithograph has fine provenance: it comes directly from the original Portfolio: "Conspiracy The Artist as Witness" which also featured works by Alexander Calder, Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Romare Bearden Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Poons, Peter Saul, Raphael Soyer and Frank Stella - as well as this one by Jack Beal. It was originally housed in an elegant cloth case, accompanied by a colophon page. This is the first time since 1971 that this important work has been removed from the original portfolio case for sale. It is becoming increasingly scarce because so many from this edition are in the permanent collections of major museums and institutions worldwide. Jack Beal wrote a special message about this work on the Portfolio's colophon page. It says, "In 1956, shortly after Sondra and I moved to New York, two friends were arrested and jailed for protesting air-raid drills. From them and their friends came our education. This work is dedicated to them and their families. "In Memory of Patricia McClure Daw and AL Uhrie" - This print was made for their children. Jack Beal Biography: Early in his career Walter Henry “Jack” Beal Jr. painted abstract expressionist canvases, because he believed it was “the only valid way to paint.” By the early 1960s he totally altered his approach and fully repudiated abstraction. Turning to representation, he painted narrative and figurative subjects, often enhanced by bright colors and dramatic perspectives. Beal was born in Richmond, Virginia, and from 1950 to 1953 he attended the Norfolk Division of William and Mary College Polytechnic Institute, (now Old Dominion University) where he studied biology and anatomy. Shifting gears, he sought art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he focused on drawing, and met his wife, artist Sondra Freckelton. His art history instructor encouraged her students to paint in the manner of established artists, and to that end he frequented the Institute’s galleries. For Beal this was significant: “Until I saw pictures of real quality I had tended to think of painting as just so much self-indulgent smearing around, but when I saw masterpieces by Cézanne and Matisse, and other painters of similar stature, I was bowled over; suddenly I realized the force of art.” After spending three years (1953–1956) at the Art Institute, Beal concluded his studies there without getting a terminal degree, thinking it was only useful if he wanted to teach, which, at the time, he did not. He also took courses at the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. During this period he married Freckelton, a fellow student and sculptor who began her career working in wood and plastic. Together they moved to New York’s SoHo District before its transformation from a wasteland of sweatshops and small factories into an arts district. They were active with the Artist Tenants Association which was instrumental in getting zoning laws changed so that artists could live and work in the well-lit lofts. Embracing what came to be called “New Realism,” Beal initially painted an occasional landscape as well as earthy-toned still lifes which consisted of jumbled collections filled with personal objects. His signature style started with a series of female nudes—all modeled by Freckelton—based on Greek mythology. These were large canvases with flat paint surfaces, dramatic foreshortening, and unusual perspectives. He further enlivened them with vivid colors, stark lighting, and dynamic patterns derived from textiles and overstuffed furniture. He stopped painting nudes after two episodes. The first came as he was loading a canvas of his naked wife onto a truck in lower Manhattan; several laborers walked by and started to fondle and kiss the painting. On the one hand he felt his wife had been violated, while on the other he was pleased that his realism was so convincing. The second occurred after a solo exhibition in Chicago at which the reception had been sponsored by Playboy magazine. A few days later he was approached by a publicist and asked if Playboy bunnies could be photographed in front of his paintings. He refused. Some portrait commissions came Beal’s way, but he preferred only portraying friends. More significant were four large murals on the History of Labor in America, the 20th Century: Technology (1975), which he undertook for the headquarters of the United States Department of Labor in Washington. Following a historical timeline, the themes were: colonization, settlement, nineteenth century industry, and twentieth century technology. The unveiling ceremony was attended by government officials and Joan Mondale, an arts advocate and wife of the vice-president. The reviewer for the Washington Post wrote enthusiastically: “They’re heartfelt and they’re big (each is 12 feet square). Their many costumed actors (the Indian, the trapper, the scientist, the hardhat, the capitalist in striped pants, the union maid, etc.) strike dramatic poses in dramatic settings (a seaside wood at dawn, an outdoor blacksmith’s forge, a 19th-century mill, a 20th-century lab). The lighting is theatrical. Beal’s compositions, with their swooping curves and bunched diagonals, are as complicated as his interwoven plots.” To accomplish the murals Beal assembled a team of assistants and models, much in the manner of Renaissance masters, which included artist friends and Freckelton. who by then was painting brightly colorful still lifes. A second mural commission ensued from New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority for two twenty-foot long installations for the Times Square Interborough Rapid Transit Company subway station. Beal’s designs for The Return of Spring (installed in 2001, three days after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, DC and Philadelphia) and The Onset of Winter (installed in 2005), Beal captured the appearance of his models in an oil painting made to the scale of the intended mosaic. A collaboration with Miotto Mosaics, the canvases were shipped to the Travisanutto Workshop, in Spilimbergo, Italy, where craftsmen fabricated the design to glass mosaics. The Return of Spring depicted construction workers and other New Yorkers in front of a subway kiosk and an outdoor produce market and in The Onset of Winter, a crowd watches a film crew recording a woman entering the subway as snow falls against the city’s skyline. Harkening back to some of his early nudes based on Greek myth, Persephone, goddess of fertility and wife of Hades, appears in both. The symbolism is pertinent, since she spent six months each year below ground. Although he disparaged teaching early on, Beal and Freckelton offered four summertime workshops on their farm in Oneonta, New York. He was an instructor at the New York Academy of Art, a graduate art school he helped to establish in 1982. Returning to Virginia, he taught at Hollins College...

Jim Dine Love for Channel 13 Lithograph. Hand signed and numbered recto 27 × 21 1/2 inches Edition 185/200 Signed and numbered 185/200 in graphite pencil on the recto Unframed Rarel...