1990
Richard Artschwager was an eclectic artist whose unique style resisted categorization. His work has been described variously as minimalism and Pop art. At the core of his approach was the transformation of the mundane into the conceptual, and sometimes even the otherworldly.
Artschwager was born in Washington, DC, in 1923 and moved with his family to New Mexico in 1935. His parents were passionate about art and design and he started painting at a young age. He later studied mathematics and science at Cornell University. His studies were interrupted by World War II, but he completed his bachelor’s degree in 1948.
Artschwager spent a period taking odd jobs to support his growing family. Still, he found time to study art, including under French painter Amédée Ozenfant at his New York City studio. He exhibited his first series of paintings and watercolors at the Art Directions Gallery in New York in 1959.
The 1960s were a prolific time for Artschwager. He experimented with his style and participated in many exhibitions. The 1962 piece Handle, a wall-hung polished wood frame, is considered a breakthrough work. He had his first solo exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in 1965.
In the 1970s, Artschwager moved into site-specific installations and produced paintings and drawings in a more architectural style. His success and acclaim grew over the next three decades.
He died in 2013 at the age of 89. His abstract prints and sculptures remain highly regarded. Many Neo-Geo artists in New York and Young British Artists in the United Kingdom have cited Artschwager as a major influence.
A few months after his death, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles held a career retrospective that displayed over 150 of Artschwager’s works.
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Eight Variations for Galerie Heiner Friedrich
By Fred Sandback
Located in New York, NY
Fred Sandback was a minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints. He majored in philosophy at Yale Universit...
Screen
Untitled
By Michael Graves (b.1934)
Located in New York, NY
Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect. Identified as one of The New York Five, as well as Memphis Group, Graves was known first for his contemporary building designs and some prominent public commissions that became iconic examples of Postmodern architecture, such as the Portland Building and Denver Public Library. His recognition grew through designing domestic products sold by premium Italian housewares maker Alessi, and later low-cost new designs at stores such as Target and J. C. Penney in the United States. He was a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture and formerly designed postmodern buildings, and was recognized as a major influence in all three movements. Michael Graves was one of the most prominent and influential architects and designers of the late- 20th and early- 21st centuries. In his buildings and in his furniture and housewares, Graves embodied the essence of Postmodernism — a refined classicism inflected with a humanistic sense of joy. The Indiana-born Graves attended the University of Cincinnati’s architectural program and continued his studies at Harvard as well as at the American Academy in Rome. In 1962, he began teaching at Princeton, and remained there throughout his career. Following a seminal 1972 Museum of Modern Art group survey of rising modernist architects, Graves, along with Richard Meier, Charles Gwathmey, Peter Eisenman...
Etching
SHOULD, WOULD, COULD
By Suzanne McClelland
Located in New York, NY
Suzanne McClelland fuses painterly marks with linguistic elements, creating rhythmic canvases that explore both visual and written languages. McClelland often begins with poetic verses, names, or numbers that she weaves into the space of her canvas, though she is rooted firmly in a tradition of abstraction, placing her in conversation with figures such as Louise Fishman...
Etching, Woodcut
Mnemosyne
By Gregory Amenoff
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts ...
Woodcut
In the Fifth Season
By Gregory Amenoff
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts ...
Woodcut
Vista
By David Salle
Located in New York, NY
This charming beach image by the American painter, printmaker, photographer and stage designer David Salle evokes the joy to be found in a serene day by the ocean. The print was publ...
Lithograph
Window from Notes on a Room, Contemporary Etching by Richard Artschwager
By Richard Artschwager
Located in Long Island City, NY
Window Richard Artschwager, American (1923–2013) Portfolio: Notes on a Room Date: 1998 Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 102/130 Image Size: 10 x 14 inches Size: 16 x...
Etching
Wooden Table from Notes on a Room, Contemporary Etching by Richard Artschwager
By Richard Artschwager
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wooden Table Richard Artschwager, American (1923–2013) Portfolio: Notes on a Room Date: 1998 Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 102/130 Image Size: 10 x 14 inches Size...
Etching
Daniel Serra-Badue, Solitude
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Serra-Badue was a Cuban artist working in New York City. His work is notable not only for the surrealist subject matter (a single egg in a wire basket in deep space) but for t...
Lithograph
Field Notes #20 Etching on Hahnemuhle Paper, Signed, Framed, 1992
By Terry Winters
Located in New York, NY
Terry Winters Field Notes #20 from Field Notes Etching on Hahnemuhle off white paper, 1992 Signed in pencil, numbered 20/75 Published by Aldo Crommelynck, Paris with full margins Ve...
Etching
Perspective - Etching by Bruno Conte - 1980
By Bruno Conte
Located in Roma, IT
Perspective is an artwork realized by Bruno Conte (1939-2021) in 1980. Good condition. Signed and numbered in roman number X/XXV.
Etching
Andrés Nagel - UNTITLED 5 Etching & Collage Spanish Contemporary Conceptualism
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Andrés Nagel - UNTITLED 5 Date of creation: 1991 Medium: Etching and collage on Paper Edition: 75 Size: 98 x 69 cm Condition: In very good conditions and never framed Observations: E...
Etching
