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Style: Abstract Expressionist
Sun Corner /// Abstract Expressionism Helen Frankenthaler Female Post-War Modern
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011)
Title: "Sun Corner"
Portfolio: The Metropolitan Scene
*Signed, dated, and numbered by Frankenthaler (inscribed into the metal) lower right
Year: 1968
Medium: Original Screenprint on core-filled, baked Aluminum Panel
Limited edition: 17/50, (there were also 4 artist's proofs)
Printer: Sheila Marbain of Maurel Studios, New York, NY
Publisher: Tanglewood Press, New York, NY
Reference: "Frankenthaler: A Catalogue Raisonné - Prints 1961-1994" - Harrison No. 12, page 90-91; Berggruen No. 13; Clark No. 13
Framing: Recently framed in a white maple moulding and conservation clear glass with frame-space. All archival
Framed size: 37.38" x 37.38"
Sheet size: 36.13" x 36.13"
Image size: approx. 32" x 32"
Condition: A faint crease upper right and lower right. Some light scuffmarks and scratches to image. In otherwise very good condition with strong colors and clean white background
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Upton, MA. Comes from the 1968 "The Metropolitan Scene" portfolio of five screenprints by various artists. Printed in four colors from four screens: blue, orange-red, green, and yellow. This is the third screenprint edition Frankenthaler ever made.
"The Metropolitan Scene", a portfolio of prints by Richard Anuszkiewicz, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Nicholas Krushenick, Roy Lichtenstein, and George Segal, was commissioned for a traveling exhibition organized by the Education Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. The museum received ten Roman-numbered copies for this purpose. Tanglewood Press then released all but Gottlieb's print in numbered editions of fifty. (Gottlieb's contract with Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, did not permit commercial release of his print by the publisher).
"Air Frame" (cat. no. 6) was Frankenthaler's first silkscreen - a medium that Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, NY did not use, although it became increasingly popular for artists' prints, both in Europe and the United States, during the sixties. Several other silkscreens followed in the next few years: "Untitled" (cat no. 11), in 1967, and "Sun Corner" (cat. no. 12) by Tanglewood Press, New York, in 1968. - "What Red Lines Can Do" (cat. nos. 22-26) is a suite of silkscreens published by Multiples, Inc., at that time directed by Rosa Esman, in 1970. - (Harrison - page 19).
Biography:
Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Metal
Helen Frankenthaler: Tales of Genji (Catalog of 6 Prints) /// Abstract Female
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011)
Title: "Helen Frankenthaler: Tales of Genji (Catalog of 6 Prints)"
Series: (after) Tales of Genji
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1998
Medium: The Complete Set of 6 Offset-Lithograph reproductions on light smooth wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Swan Engraving...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Untitled (Fresh Air School) /// Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Walasse Ting
By Walasse Ting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Walasse Ting (Chinese-American, 1929-2010)
Title: "Untitled (Fresh Air School)"
Portfolio: Fresh Air School
*Unsigned edition
Year: 1972
Mediu...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Abstract Lithograph by Richard Proctor
Located in Pasadena, CA
Richard Proctor pays tribute to painters like the cubist Albert Gleizes in this abstract lithograph numbered 14/30. The artist uses the principle of the kaleidoscope. He turns tradit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Meditations in an Emergency /// Abstract Expressionist Female Artist Post-War NY
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992)
Title: "Meditations in an Emergency"
Portfolio: In Memory of My Feelings
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1967 (First edition)
Medium: Original Lithograph on Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper
Limited edition: 514/2,500
Printer: Crafton Graphic Company, Inc., New York, NY
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sheet size: 12" x 9"
Condition: In excellent condition
Rare
Notes:
Comes with its accompanying poetry pages. Numbered on colophon page. Comes from the 1967 "In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems" book volume by Frank O'Hara with approx. 46 unbound original lithographs by various artists. Collaboration: Edward Katz (printing). The last image of the complete book is for reference/provenance; it is not included.
This image Mitchell contributed to "In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems" by Frank O'Hara, edited by Bill Berkson, for the Museum of Modern Art. The project was published in 1967 in memory of Frank O'Hara, poet and associate curator at the museum, who died in a tragic accident in 1966. Bill Berkson (with the assistance of Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery) selected the poems and (with advice from Robert Motherwell) asked the following artists to contribute: Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm, Joe Branaird, John Buton, Giorgio Cavallon, Allan D'Arcangelo, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Michael Goldberg, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Jasper Johns, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, and Jane Wilson...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
America (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
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"America" is a unique eagle design by Mauro Oliveira.
This exquisite...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Cotton Canvas
Art 1981 Chicago Poster /// Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Modern Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1992)
Title: "Art 1981 Chicago"
*Issued unsigned, though signed and dated by Motherwell in the plate (printed signature) upper right
Year: 1981
Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on Dove paper
Limited edition: 2,000. (There was also a signed and numbered edition of 150 on Arches Cover paper without margins or text)
Printer: Roger Campbell and Lee Funderburg of Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, NY
Publisher: Lakeside Group, Chicago, IL
Reference: "The Prints of Robert Motherwell - A Catalogue Raisonné 1943-1984" - Belknap No. 249, page 247; "Robert Motherwell - The Complete Prints 1940-1991" - Engberg No. 282; "Tyler Graphics - Catalogue Raisonné, 1974-1985" - Tyler No. 410:RM29, page 246
Sheet size: 39.5" x 27.5".
Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. Some minor edge wear. In excellent condition
Notes:
Printed in four colors: light tan, orange, deep red, and black. Poster produced for a special exhibition of various artists' work at the Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL from May 14-19, 1981. The image featured on this poster is Motherwell's 1977 collage "Untitled". This poster was the official poster for the 1981 Chicago International Art Exposition. Printer's imprint and artist's copyright lower center.
GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer:
Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters.
Biography:
Robert Motherwell was born January 24, 1915, in Aberdeen, Washington. He was awarded a fellowship to the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles at age 11, and in 1932 studied painting briefly at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Motherwell received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1937 and enrolled for graduate work later that year in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He traveled to Europe in 1938 for a year of study abroad. His first solo show was presented at the Raymond Duncan...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Basquiat Annina Nosei Gallery 1982 (Basquiat anatomy announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1982:
Rare Basquiat announcement card published by Annina Nosei Gallery to advertise the release of ‘Basquiat Anatomy’ (a suite ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
Acrobat (detail), Limited Edition Porcelain Plate in bespoke blue box - Abstract
Located in New York, NY
This porcelain/ceramic plate makes a gorgeous gift - in a bright blue bespoke box, ready to be gifted. Any fan of Helen Frankenthaler or Abstract Expressionist art would be thrilled!...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Porcelain, Screen, Cardboard, Mixed Media
Movement, Minimalist Abstract Etching by Robert Savoie
Located in Long Island City, NY
A minimalist Etching and Aquatint on Arches paper by Robert Savoie (1939). The print is signed, dated and numbered in pencil 15/50. Image Size: 22 x 27.5 inches.
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Georg Baselitz, Grüner Hase - Original Woodcut, Signed Print, Contemporary Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Georg Baselitz (German, b. 1938)
Grüner Hase, 1989
Medium: Woodcut in colors, on wove paper
Dimensions: 86 x 61.2 cm (33.85 x 24 in)
Edition of 15: Hand-signed and numbered
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Abstract Expressionist American Modernist Oil Monotype Monoprint Painting
By Larry Brown
Located in Surfside, FL
Larry Brown
Long-time established New York painter as well as faculty member the The Cooper Union, Brown works in oil on canvas and tempera paints on paper. He deals with themes of s...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Monoprint, Monotype
I from the Ten Coconut Portflio, Minimalist Abstract Etching by John Chamberlain
Located in Long Island City, NY
A print from John Chamberlain's portfolio "Ten Coconuts". Although known widely for his sculptural work, John Chamberlain was a prolific printmaker. The etching is hand-signed and n...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
IV from the Ten Coconut Portfolio, Minimalist Etching by John Chamberlain
Located in Long Island City, NY
A print from John Chamberlain's portfolio "Ten Coconuts". Although known widely for his sculptural work, John Chamberlain was a prolific printmaker.
IV from the Ten Coconut Portfo...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
José Manuel Broto IRIS 6. Lyrical Abstraction Spanish Contemporary Green Yellow
Located in Madrid, Madrid
José Manuel Broto - Iris 6
Date of creation: 2006
Medium: Etching on Paper
Edition: 50
Size: 100 x 70 cm
Condition: In perfect conditions and never framed
Observations: Etching on pa...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Contentment Island
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 2004, on Rives BFK paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from edition of 118, printed by Brand X Editions, New York, published by The Dalton School, New...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Manor Arena
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Manor Arena c.1980 is an original etching on Japan paper by noted French abstract expressionist artist Francois Rouan, b.1943. It is hand ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Bright Jade Ghost
By Sam Francis
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Sam Francis (1923-1994) is one of the most distinctive and collected 20th-century abstract artists.
After serving in the Air Force in WW II, Francis returned to California immersin...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Her Blue Deeps
By Sam Francis
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Sam Francis (1923-1994) is one of the most distinctive and collected 20th-century abstract artists.
After serving in the Air Force in WW II, Francis returned to his native Californ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Reflections II
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1995, on BFK Rives paper, signed and dated in pencil, inscribed ‘P.P.’ a printer’s proof, aside from the standard edition of 30, published by Tyler Graphics Lt...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flotilla
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colors, 2006, on Rives BFK paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 120, published by the Naples Art Museum, Florida, 78.7 x 93.7 cm. (31 x 37 i...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Southern Exposure
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 2005, on Somerset wove paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 128, printed by Brand X Editions, Ltd., New York, published by Lincoln ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Ramblas
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, drypoint, etching in colours, 1987/88, on handmade wove paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75, printed and published by Polígrafa Obra Gráfica, Barcelo...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Lithograph
Soho Dreams
Located in London, GB
Etching, aquatint and drypoint in colours, 1987, on Magnani paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 71 (there were also 8 artist’s proofs), published by 2RC E...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Jim DINE Eight Sheets from an Undefined Novel (sample portfolio)
By Jim Dine
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jim Dine Eight Sheets from an Undefined Novel:
A rare, highly-collectible sample portfolio of 8 offset printed lithographs advertising Jim Dine's Eight Sheets from an Undefined Novel...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Damien Hirst, Mill Bay H13-7 from Where The Land Meets The Sea, 2023
By Damien Hirst
Located in Manchester, GB
Damien Hirst, Mill Bay H13-7 from Where The Land Meets The Sea, 2023
Laminated giclee print on aluminium composite panel
90 x 90 cm (35.43 x 35.43 in)
Hand signed on the label on ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Panel, Giclée
Greenwich Arts Council Poster /// Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell NY
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1992)
Title: "Greenwich Arts Council"
*Issued unsigned, though signed by Motherwell in the plate (printed signature) center right
Year: 1976
Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on Strathmore paper
Limited edition: 700. (There was also a signed and numbered edition of 42)
Printer: Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Mount Kisco, NY
Publisher: Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT
Reference: "The Prints of Robert Motherwell - A Catalogue Raisonné 1943-1984" - Belknap Appendix: No. 28, page 282; "Robert Motherwell - The Complete Prints 1940-1991" - Engberg No. 202
Sheet size: 37.25" x 23"
Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. Some minor edge wear. In excellent condition
Rare
Notes:
Printed in three colors: black, green, and cream. Poster produced for a special exhibition "Sculpture 76" at The Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT from June - October, 1976. The image featured on this poster is Motherwell's 1972 acrylic painting on paper "Greenwich Sculpture". Artist's copyright lower left and printer's imprint lower right.
GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer:
Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters.
Biography:
Robert Motherwell was born January 24, 1915, in Aberdeen, Washington. He was awarded a fellowship to the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles at age 11, and in 1932 studied painting briefly at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Motherwell received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1937 and enrolled for graduate work later that year in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He traveled to Europe in 1938 for a year of study abroad. His first solo show was presented at the Raymond Duncan...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lyrical Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Cleve Gray Lithograph Silkscreen Print
By Cleve Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
Cleve Gray, American (1918-2004)
Composition, (1976)
serigraph or lithograph
Hand signed lower right, and editioned 36/60
Dimensions: 19.25 X 23.75 inches sheet.
unframed
Cleve Gray (1918 – 2004) was an American Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.
Gray was born Cleve Ginsberg, the family changed their name to Gray in 1936. Gray attended the Ethical Culture School in New York City (1924–1932). From the age of 11 until the age of 14 he had his first formal art training with Antonia Nell, who had been a student of George Bellows. From 15 to 18 he attended the Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts; where he studied painting with Bartlett Hayes and won the Samuel F. B. Morse Prize for most promising art student. In 1940 he graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude, with a degree in Art and Archeology. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Princeton he studied painting with James C. Davis and Far Eastern Art with George Rowley, under whose supervision he wrote his thesis on Yuan dynasty landscape painting. Best known for his calligraphic abstractions which melded elements of Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, and traditional Chinese scroll painting. After graduation in 1941 Gray moved to Tucson, Arizona. In Arizona he exhibited his modernist landscape paintings and still lifes at the Alfred Messer Studio Gallery in Tucson. In 1942 he returned to New York and joined the United States Army. During World War II, he served in the signal intelligence service in Britain, France and Germany, where he rose to the rank of sergeant. After the liberation of Paris he was the first American GI to greet Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. He began informal art training with the French artists André Lhote and Jacques Villon, continuing his art studies in Paris after the war. Gray returned to the United States in 1946. In 1949 he moved to the house his parents had owned on a 94-acre property in Warren, Connecticut, and lived there for the rest of his life. In the 1960s he formed a close friendship with Barnett Newman. It was during this time that he experienced an artistic metamorphosis, dissolving his earlier cubist compositions in a sea of distilled color. This dramatic body of work marked the beginning of an artistic meditation that would last for over 40 years. The rigors of French modernism, the ethos of Abstract Expressionism and the meditative restraint of Chinese and Japanese scroll painting commingle with astounding affect. The atmospheric, subdued tones of his 1960s paintings gradually gave way to bright, monochromatic fields of color, hazily washed onto the canvas in stain like swathes. Much of his work from the last three decades of his career feature striking graphic brushwork that conjures the influence of Asian, Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. He married the noted author Francine du Plessix on April 23, 1957. They worked in separate studios in two outbuildings with a driveway in between. Gray was a veteran of scores of exhibitions throughout his career, as listed below, from the early days Tucson, through to postwar Paris and New York, and most recently in 2002 at the Berry-Hill Gallery in New York City. His paintings are held in the collections of numerous prominent museums and institutions. In 2009 the art critic Karen Wilkin curated a posthumous retrospective of his work at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, and other posthumous exhibitions have been held.
Museum collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
The Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Columbia University Art Gallery, New York City
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York City
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Jewish Museum, New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
The Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Oklahoma City Art Center, Oklahoma
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.[14]
The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey[6]
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
He was included in the show 1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery. Mino Argento...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Damien Hirst, Woody Bay H13-8 from Where The Land Meets The Sea, 2023
By Damien Hirst
Located in Manchester, GB
Damien Hirst, Woody Bay H13-8 from Where The Land Meets The Sea, 2023
Laminated giclee print on aluminium composite panel
90 x 90 cm (35.43 x 35.43 in)
Hand signed on the label on...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Panel, Giclée
Sans Titre
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sans Titre" c.1980 is an original etching on Arches paper by noted French abstract expressionist artist Francois Rouan, b.1943. It is hand...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Helen Frankenthaler “Mary Mary” 1987
Located in San Francisco, CA
Helen Frankenthaler: 1928-2011. Well listed very important American abstract expressionist. Her paintings have sold well into the millions of dollars. This particular print is done a...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Lyrical Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Cleve Gray Lithograph Silkscreen Print
By Cleve Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
Cleve Gray, American (1918-2004)
Composition, (1976)
serigraph or lithograph
Hand signed lower right, and editioned 9/50
Dimensions: 19.25 X 23.75 inches sheet.
unframed
Cleve Gray (1918 – 2004) was an American Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.
Gray was born Cleve Ginsberg, the family changed their name to Gray in 1936. Gray attended the Ethical Culture School in New York City (1924–1932). From the age of 11 until the age of 14 he had his first formal art training with Antonia Nell, who had been a student of George Bellows. From 15 to 18 he attended the Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts; where he studied painting with Bartlett Hayes and won the Samuel F. B. Morse Prize for most promising art student. In 1940 he graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude, with a degree in Art and Archeology. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Princeton he studied painting with James C. Davis and Far Eastern Art with George Rowley, under whose supervision he wrote his thesis on Yuan dynasty landscape painting. Best known for his calligraphic abstractions which melded elements of Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, and traditional Chinese scroll painting. After graduation in 1941 Gray moved to Tucson, Arizona. In Arizona he exhibited his modernist landscape paintings and still lifes at the Alfred Messer Studio Gallery in Tucson. In 1942 he returned to New York and joined the United States Army. During World War II, he served in the signal intelligence service in Britain, France and Germany, where he rose to the rank of sergeant. After the liberation of Paris he was the first American GI to greet Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. He began informal art training with the French artists André Lhote and Jacques Villon, continuing his art studies in Paris after the war. Gray returned to the United States in 1946. In 1949 he moved to the house his parents had owned on a 94-acre property in Warren, Connecticut, and lived there for the rest of his life. In the 1960s he formed a close friendship with Barnett Newman. It was during this time that he experienced an artistic metamorphosis, dissolving his earlier cubist compositions in a sea of distilled color. This dramatic body of work marked the beginning of an artistic meditation that would last for over 40 years. The rigors of French modernism, the ethos of Abstract Expressionism and the meditative restraint of Chinese and Japanese scroll painting commingle with astounding affect. The atmospheric, subdued tones of his 1960s paintings gradually gave way to bright, monochromatic fields of color, hazily washed onto the canvas in stain like swathes. Much of his work from the last three decades of his career feature striking graphic brushwork that conjures the influence of Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. He married the noted author Francine du Plessix on April 23, 1957. They worked in separate studios in two outbuildings with a driveway in between. Gray was a veteran of scores of exhibitions throughout his career, as listed below, from the early days Tucson, through to postwar Paris and New York, and most recently in 2002 at the Berry-Hill Gallery in New York City. His paintings are held in the collections of numerous prominent museums and institutions. In 2009 the art critic Karen Wilkin curated a posthumous retrospective of his work at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, and other posthumous exhibitions have been held.
Museum collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
The Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Columbia University Art Gallery, New York City
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York City
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Jewish Museum, New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
The Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Oklahoma City Art Center, Oklahoma
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.[14]
The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey[6]
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
He was included in the show 1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery. Mino Argento...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Figure Miroir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Figure Miroir" c.1980 is an original lithograph on Arches paper by noted French abstract expressionist artist Francois Rouan, b.194...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paysage
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Paysage" c.1980 is an original lithograph on Arches paper by noted French abstract expressionist artist Francois Rouan, b.1943. It ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marbre
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Marbre" c.1980 is an original lithograph on Arches paper by noted French abstract expressionist artist Francois Rouan, b.1943. It i...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alternance
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Alternance" c.1980 is an original lithograph on Arches paper by noted French abstract expressionist artist Francois Rouan, b.1943. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sans Titre II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sans Titre II" c.1980 is an original color etching with aquatint on Arches paper by noted French abstract expressionist artist Francois Rouan...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Omar’s Cup
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Omar’s Cup
Power drypoint engraving, 1958
Printed in red, black with gold leaf highlights
Annotated in pencil on detached bottom margin: “Printed by the artist’s own press at 4 rue d’universite, Paris, Sept. 1958”
Signed and dated lower left: "Childs '58"
Edition: 10 (8/10)
Condition: Excellent
Plate: 7 3/4 x 4 1/4"
Sheet: 23 3/4 x 19 9/16"; (See photo)
Dedicated in pencil by the artist: “For Alice and Albert Turner...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Homage to Martha Graham, Abstract Silkscreen by Paul Jenkins 1971
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul Jenkins, American (1923 - 2012)
Title: Homage to Martha Graham
Year: 1971
Medium: Screenprint (unsigned)
Edition: Printer's Proof
Size: 44 x 34 in. (111.76 x 86.36 cm)...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Miro 61 melodie acide. original lithograph painting
By Joan Miró
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
La melodie acide. original lithograph painting.
signed on the stone and numbered 384/ 1500
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
South Fork, Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by James Brooks
By James Brooks
Located in Long Island City, NY
South Fork by James Brooks, American (1906–1992)
Date: 1974
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 5/55
Image: 27 x 34.75 inches
Size: 32.5 x 40 in. (82.55 x 101.6 cm)
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
67.3 x 49.5 cms (26 1/2 x 19 1/2 ins)
Edition of 7
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
MIRO Little La melodie acide. original lithograph painting.
By Joan Miró
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
La melodie acide. original lithograph painting.
signed on the stone and numbered 384/1500
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Helen Frankenthaler: Reflections (Catalog of 12 Prints) /// Abstract Female Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011)
Title: "Helen Frankenthaler: Reflections (Catalog of 12 Prints)"
Series: (after) Reflections
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1995
Med...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Octavio Paz Suite: Nocturne VIII
Located in London, GB
Lithograph and chine appliqué
64.5 x 54 cms (25 3/8 x 21 1/4 ins)
Edition of 50
Paper: Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper
Other Collaborators: Image transferred from Mylar...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color, Lithograph
Elegy Black Black, a beautiful lithography from Motherwell's elegy series
Located in London, GB
extract from the catalogue raisonné:
CR 309
Signature:Signed Motherwell in pencil lower right
Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in London, GB
Edition of 24
73.7 x 64.8 cms (29 x 25 1/2 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Antoni Tapies Post Modern Abstract Expressionist Aquatint
Located in Surfside, FL
Size includes frame. There is a plate impression at the image that leads me to believe this is an aquatint.
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquis of Tàpies (Catalan: 13 December 1923 – ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Kendo, Abstract Expressionist Silkscreen by Paul Jenkins 1973
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul Jenkins, American (1923 - 2012)
Title: Kendo
Year: 1973
Medium: Screenprint, signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Edition: 4/60
Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Fra...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Samurai II
Located in London, GB
144.8 x 62.2 cms (57 x 24.5 ins)
Edition of 49
Lithograph and chine appliqué
Paper:Two joined sheets of natural Nepal handmade paper; natural Sekishu handmade paper
Proofs: 1 archiv...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Untitled
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Untitled
1986
Colour lithograph and collage, on Guarro paper, Edtion of 100
55.9 x 37.8 cms (22 x 14 7/8 ins)
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Berggruen Series: Untitled
Located in London, GB
40 x 42.2 cms (15 3/4 x 16 5/8 ins)
Signature: Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions: Numbered in pencil lower right
Edition: 100
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Norway
Located in London, GB
54.9 x 56.5 cms (21.6 x 22.25 ins)
Edition of 50
Paper: Somerset paper
Signature:Signed "RM" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right
Proofs:20 AP, number...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Summer Sign
Located in London, GB
Carborundum on Whatman paper
Edition of 38
84.1 x 78.7 cms (33 1/8 x 31 ins)
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color
Looking West, Abstract Silkscreen by Paul Jenkins c1969
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul Jenkins, American (1923 - 2012)
Title: Looking West
Year: circa 1969
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 45/200
Image Size: 39 x 29 inches
Size: 4...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Mod Abstract Expressionist Modernist Lithograph Edward Avedisian Color Field Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Edward Avedisian (1936-2007)
Cleo, Fur Queen, 1969
Lithograph in color on Arches wove paper.
Hand signed, dated and numbered in pencil.
Edition 100
Dimensions:
22.25 inches X 30.25...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pioggia d'Oro: Le Cinque Stagioni (Golden Rain) 1988 Color etching/aquatint BIG
By Sam Francis
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Pioggia d'Oro (Golden Rain)
Etching with aquatint in colors, on Fabriano paper.
1988
Signed in pencil lower right.
Numbered in pencil lower left.
From the signed and numbered editio...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Set of Eyes, Color Lithograph, Belgian Abstract Expressionist Tamarind Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed, dated and titled. Initialed and dated lower right, each numbered 8/20, lower left. 9 x 6 image size, 22 x 15 in. sheet size. With the blindstamp of the Tamarind Institute pri...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Archival Paper
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