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Item Ships From: Texas
"Vase of Afterlife, " Colorful abstract Monoprint in Black Frame
Located in Houston, TX
This large monotype print effectively portrays Bert Long’s iconic style. Furnished with his notorious abstracted eye and gestural style, this work demonstrat...
Category
1990s Folk Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Monoprint
"Painting the Paint, " Monoprint, Colored, Framed
Located in Houston, TX
This large monoprint demonstrates Bert Long’s affection for introspection. Referring to the paint as both an action and an object underscores the fluidity of...
Category
1990s Folk Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Monoprint
Price Upon Request
Sumo Wrestling Tournament
By Toyohara Kunichika
Located in Austin, TX
Toyohara Kunichika
"Sumo Wrestling Tournament"
Woodcut Print on Paper
13.5 x 28.5"
Framed size 35 x 20"
The print pictures an exciting scene featuring t...
Category
Late 19th Century Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Price Upon Request
"Significant Abstract of Form M.F.A, /92/D" - Minimalist Print
Located in Houston, TX
Elongated forms become seed-like, with glowing energy of life at the center. We are reminded of the interactions in nature, that all things are constantly changing, rising and fallin...
Category
1990s Minimalist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Significant Abstract of Form M.F.A, /92/F" - Minimalist Print
Located in Houston, TX
Elongated forms become seed-like, with glowing energy of life at the center. We are reminded of the interactions in nature, that all things are constantly changing, rising and fallin...
Category
1990s Minimalist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Significant Abstract of Form M.F.A, /92/C" - Minimalist Print
Located in Houston, TX
Elongated forms become seed-like, with glowing energy of life at the center. We are reminded of the interactions in nature, that all things are constantly changing, rising and fallin...
Category
1990s Minimalist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Significant Abstract of Form M.F.A, /92/A" - Minimalist Print
Located in Houston, TX
Phatyos experiments with the mounted form of the Thai pagoda (stupa), which was originally derived from a pile of ashes, the burial site of a sacred person. Through the tangible pago...
Category
1990s Minimalist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Significant Abstract of Form M.F.A, /92/E" - Minimalist Print
Located in Houston, TX
The texture, light and movement of this mounded, pagoda-like form gives an impression of stability, yet in motion, and calls us to contemplate the nature of the stone.
Artist Detai...
Category
1990s Minimalist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Significant Abstract of Form M.F.A, /93/I" - Minimalist Print
Located in Houston, TX
Elongated forms become seed-like, with glowing energy of life at the center. We are reminded of the interactions in nature, that all things are constantly changing, rising and fallin...
Category
1990s Minimalist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Significant Abstract of Form M.F.A, /92/B" - Minimalist Print
Located in Houston, TX
Phatyos experiments with the mounded form of the Thai pagoda (stupa), which originally derived from a pile of ashes or the burial site of a sacred person. Through the tangible pagoda...
Category
1990s Minimalist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Significant Abstract of Form M.F.A, /93/J" - Minimalist Print
Located in Houston, TX
Phatyos experiments with the mounded form of the Thai pagoda (stupa), which originally derived from a pile of ashes or the burial site of a sacred person. Through the tangible pagod...
Category
1990s Minimalist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Preecha Thaothong Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Houston, TX
Artwork Details:
Preecha Thaothong
1998
Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Edition 56/100
19 x 23 Inches
Category
1990s Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Temple, " Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Houston, TX
In front of this temple wall, the boundary stones (bai sema in Thai) indicate the sacredness of the space. This is a classic Preecha plays with texture and light.
Artwork Details:
Preecha Thaothong
"Temple"
1998
Signed Limited Edition Lithograph...
Category
1990s Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Price Upon Request
"Emerald Buddha Temple II, " Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Houston, TX
Artwork Details:
Preecha Thaothong
"Emerald Buddha Temple II"
1998
Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Edition 90/100
19 x 23 Inches
Category
1990s Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Panya Vijinthanasarn - Signed Lithograph on Handmade Paper
By Panya Vijinthanasarn
Located in Houston, TX
This work unites all people from various religions to come together for a better world.
Artwork Details:
Panya Vijinthanasarn
1998
Signed Lithograph on Handmade Paper
Edition 1/19...
Category
1990s Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Economic Crisis in Dhaimha Land, " Signed Lithograph on Handmade Paper
By Panya Vijinthanasarn
Located in Houston, TX
Artwork Details:
Panya Vijinthanasarn
"Economic Crisis in Dhaimha Land"
1999
Signed Lithograph on Handmade Paper
Edition 1/300
17 x 28 Inches
Category
1990s Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"We Live, We Grow, We Die, We Go Someplace, " Six Color Lithograph
Located in Houston, TX
This work resembles a colorful abstraction of a terrarium inhabited by geometric and organic forms alike.
Bert L. Long Jr., was self-taught artist, was born in 1940 in Texas, grew ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Whistle
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Kelly Fearing Saint Rose in a Wild Place 1995
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (American, 1918 - 2011)
Title: Saint Rose in a Wild Place, 1995
Medium: Prints and multiples, etching
Size: 7.25 x...
Category
1990s Contemporary Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Price Upon Request
Kelly Fearing Remogue
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (American, 1918 - 2011)
Title: Remogue
Medium: Prints and multiples, etching
Size: 6 x 2.5 in. (15.2 x 6.4 cm.)
Movement: Contemporary Art
M...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Price Upon Request
Kelly Fearing Three Virgins and a Devil 1944
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (American, 1918 - 2011)
Title: Three Virgins and a Devil, 1944
Medium: Prints and multiples, etching
Edition: 40 / 50
Size: 7.75 x 5 ...
Category
1940s Contemporary Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Price Upon Request
Kelly Fearing Mendicant Searching 2000
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (American, 1918 - 2011)
Title: Mendicant Searching, 2000
Medium: Prints and multiples, etching
Edition: 3 / 5
Size: 13 x 10 in. (33 x...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Price Upon Request
Kelly Fearing Boy Returning Water to the Sea 1949
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (American, 1918 - 2011)
Title: Boy Returning Water to the Sea, 1949
Medium: Prints and multiples, lithograph
Size: 11.5 x 14 in. (29.2 x 35....
Category
1940s Contemporary Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Price Upon Request
Fossil Ship
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Spindles
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1980s Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
154 Foot Sculpture That Never Was
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Eagle's Nest
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (The Living Arts, June 13, 2000, p. B2)
Valton Tyler was born in 1944 in Texas, where "the industrial world of oil refineries made a long-lasting impression on Valton as a very young child living in Texas City." (Reynolds, p. 25) After leaving Texas City, Valton made his way to Dallas, where he briefly enrolled at the Dallas Art Institute, but found it to be too social and commercial for his taste. After Valton's work was introduced to Donald Vogel (founder of Valley House Gallery), "Vogel arranged for Tyler to use the printmaking facilities in the art department of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where the young artist essentially taught himself several demanding printmaking techniques. 'It was remarkable,' Vogel says. 'Not only did he learn complicated etching methods, but he was able to express himself powerfully in whatever medium he explored.' Vogel became the publisher of Tyler's prints. Among them, the artist made editions of some 50 different images whose sometimes stringy abstract forms and more solid, architecturally arresting elements became the precursors of his later, mature style." (Gomez, Raw Vision #35, p. 36)
"Eagle’s Nest" is Plate Number 37, and is reproduced in "The First Fifty Prints: Valton Tyler" with text by Rebecca Reynolds, published for Valley House Gallery by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas, 1972.
In "The First Fifty Prints," Reynolds provides the following quote from the artist regarding this print:
“The structure on the right is an architectural symbol for an eagle. It is also like a machine that is igniting the shape on the left. Below, the egg that is coming out of the chute is a child which will evolve into another architectural eagle...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Front Elevation of Section 17
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (The Living Arts, June 13, 2000, p. B2)
Valton Tyler was born in 1944 in Texas, where "the industrial world of oil refineries made a long-lasting impression on Valton as a very young child living in Texas City." (Reynolds, p. 25) After leaving Texas City, Valton made his way to Dallas, where he briefly enrolled at the Dallas Art Institute, but found it to be too social and commercial for his taste. After Valton's work was introduced to Donald Vogel (founder of Valley House Gallery), "Vogel arranged for Tyler to use the printmaking facilities in the art department of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where the young artist essentially taught himself several demanding printmaking techniques. 'It was remarkable,' Vogel says. 'Not only did he learn complicated etching methods, but he was able to express himself powerfully in whatever medium he explored.' Vogel became the publisher of Tyler's prints. Among them, the artist made editions of some 50 different images whose sometimes stringy abstract forms and more solid, architecturally arresting elements became the precursors of his later, mature style." (Gomez, Raw Vision #35, p. 36)
"Front Elevation of Section 17" is plate number 34, and is reproduced in "The First Fifty Prints: Valton Tyler" with text by Rebecca Reynolds, published for Valley House Gallery by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas, 1972.
In "The First Fifty Prints," Reynolds writes, “this plate can be seen as a culmination of the artist’s earlier uses of aquatint and as a new direction the artist will take in his compositions. In early plates such as ‘Joy,’ Plate No. 12, and ‘Do Not Touch,’ Plate No. 20, the artist has presented his designs to our unaccustomed eyes, either formally, by placing them on sculpture pedestals, or more abstractly, using smaller soft ground silhouettes. In later examples such as ‘One Little Stage,’ Plate No. 24, or ‘Heritage,’ Plate No. 25, we were brought closer to a direct interaction with the forms as they began to fill the plates with increasing sculptural and monumental qualities. It was still possible to maintain a more passive point of view because of the stage format of the compositions. In ‘Avenue 11,’ Plate No. 26, as we have seen, the artist unveils the true authority of his designs by placing them in our environment to compete with our reality of a familiar cityscape and to make us question our ideas of aesthetics and logic. In ‘Front Elevation’ we enter into and are confronted with these structures in their own massive landscape...
Category
1970s Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
A Sculpture Framed by a Print
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Rear Section of B
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Birth Then?
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Just Pure Honest Fun
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Tickle Me
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Tippicanoe and Tyler Too
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Price Upon Request
Neighborhood
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Space Eagles
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Joy
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Price Upon Request
Four Cities
By Alex Corno
Located in Dallas, TX
This portfolio, of four prints engraved on linoleum and printed on paper, includes the linocuts titled: Dallas, Amarillo, Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Valley House Gallery & Sculptur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
Price Upon Request
Journey
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Music Box
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Pillow Machine
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Just a Little Water Please
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Night Shift
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Surrealist Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Junkyard Park
By Jim Stoker
Located in Dallas, TX
Jim Stoker was born in Nash, Texas, in 1935, and grew up in Atlanta, Texas. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BFA in Applied Art in 1957. His teaching career...
Category
1960s American Modern Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Price Upon Request
Heritage
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Stop Playing and Get to Work
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Avenue 11
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Together We Are
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Love Me
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Storage #2
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Homage to Galileo
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Environment Man
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Height Almost 34'
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (The Living Arts, June 13, 2000, p. B2)
Valton Tyler was born in 1944 in Texas, where "the industrial world of oil refineries made a long-lasting impression on Valton as a very young child living in Texas City. He was three years old when the terrible explosion occurred there and can remember the terrifying confusion and 'the beautiful red sky and objects flying everywhere in the air.'" (Reynolds, p. 25) While growing up in Texas City, Valton's father worked in auto repair, and was known for his skill in mixing colors for paint jobs. After leaving Texas City, Valton made his way to Dallas, where he briefly enrolled at the Dallas Art Institute, but found it to be too social and commercial for his taste. After Valton's work was introduced to Donald Vogel (founder of Valley House Gallery), "Vogel arranged for Tyler to use the printmaking facilities in the art department of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where the young artist essentially taught himself several demanding printmaking techniques. 'It was remarkable,' Vogel says. 'Not only did he learn complicated etching methods, but he was able to express himself powerfully in whatever medium he explored.' Vogel became the publisher of Tyler's prints. Among them, the artist made editions of some 50 different images whose sometimes stringy abstract forms and more solid, architecturally arresting elements became the precursors of his later, mature style." (Gomez, Raw Vision #35, p. 36)
“Height...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Still Life
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
World of Watermelons
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (The Living Arts, June 13, 2000, p. B2)
Valton Tyler was born in 1944 in Texas, where "the industrial world of oil refineries made a long-lasting impression on Valton as a very young child living in Texas City. He was three years old when the terrible explosion occurred there and can remember the terrifying confusion and 'the beautiful red sky and objects flying everywhere in the air.'" (Reynolds, p. 25) While growing up in Texas City, Valton's father worked in auto repair, and was known for his skill in mixing colors for paint jobs. After leaving Texas City, Valton made his way to Dallas, where he briefly enrolled at the Dallas Art Institute, but found it to be too social and commercial for his taste. After Valton's work was introduced to Donald Vogel (founder of Valley House Gallery), "Vogel arranged for Tyler to use the printmaking facilities in the art department of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where the young artist essentially taught himself several demanding printmaking techniques. 'It was remarkable,' Vogel says. 'Not only did he learn complicated etching methods, but he was able to express himself powerfully in whatever medium he explored.' Vogel became the publisher of Tyler's prints. Among them, the artist made editions of some 50 different images whose sometimes stringy abstract forms and more solid, architecturally arresting elements became the precursors of his later, mature style." (Gomez, Raw Vision #35, p. 36)
“World of Watermelons” is plate number 19, and is reproduced in "The First Fifty Prints: Valton Tyler" with text by Rebecca Reynolds, published for Valley House Gallery by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas, 1972.
Of “World of Watermelons”, Tyler said “The title here does not represent my own associations with this print. Friends simply began referring to it as ‘the watermelon print...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Do Not Touch
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Freezing Point
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Trapped
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Texas - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Price Upon Request
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