Mark Zamantakis
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Stoneware
Mid-20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
1980s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Oil
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
1990s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Burlap, Oil
Edward MarecakWinter Witches in an Upside World Interfering with Each Other, Semi-Abstract Oil, 1990
1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Oil
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
Edward MarecakThe Argument, 1960s Vintage Semi-Abstract Oil Painting in Reds, Pinks, and Black, 1968
1940s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
1960s Abstract Mixed Media
Crayon, Acrylic
20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Woodcut
1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Edward MarecakSybils Telling Cosmic Jokes On Mankind, Framed Figurative Abstract Oil Painting, 1960s
People Also Browsed
Late 20th Century Books
Paper
2010s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Graphite, Conté
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
2010s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Chaise Longues
Linen, Wood, Hardwood
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Fabric, Wood
2010s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
2010s American Modern Ottomans and Poufs
Velvet
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Slipper Chairs
Linen, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Rustic Ceramics
Ceramic, Clay
Vintage 1930s Chinese Chinoiserie More Asian Art, Objects and Furniture
Wood
1980s American Modern Abstract Prints
Lithograph
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Sculptures and Carvings
Acrylic
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Wrought Iron
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Steel
2010s Organic Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood, Teak, Reclaimed Wood
Recent Sales
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Vintage 1970s American Floor Lamps
Ceramic
1980s Abstract Paintings
Oil
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Board, Oil
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Edward MarecakA Small Incantation, 1940s Abstracted Figural Watercolor and Ink Painting, circa 1940s
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Oil
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Edward Marecak was an American painter who was born in 1919. Growing up in the farming community of Brunswick, Ohio, he showed early artistic promise, hired by the National Youth Administration to document historic barns. In 1946, Marecak came to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center for a year and after a semester interlude at Cranbrook returned to study lithography with Lawrence Barrett. There he also met his future wife and sometime collaborator, ceramicist Theresa Madonna Fortin. Given the opportunity to teach a summer course at the University of Colorado, he decided to obtain a teaching certificate at the University of Denver and subsequently embarked on his 25-year career in the Denver Public School system. Rather than pursue fame, Edward Marecak directed his zeal toward fostering younger generations in the principles of art as well as his simple philosophies. Moreover, his teaching salary allowed him to ply his prodigious talent at whatever he pleased, instead of bending to the dictates of trends and sales. Having inherited his faith in education from his Slovakian immigrant parents, Marecak could add the shaping of lives to his mastery of art forms, including lithographs, monoprints, drawings, hooked rugs, ceramics, paintings, wood sculptures, stained-glass windows and jewelry. While exhibiting in his lifetime, he was, in his wife’s words, “his own greatest collector”, but shows and his popularity at the Kirkland Museum have positioned Marecak posthumously among Colorado’s pre-eminent modernists. As a child, Marecak was enthralled by the Carpathian tales of magic and supernatural beings told by his grandmother. As with other artists with roots in Eastern Europe, his artistic turn to folk tradition would free him from learned practices of perspective and modeling in favor of flat patterns within patterns and brilliant, throbbing color. While others ventured further into abstraction, Marecak stylized figurative elements into crowded compositions that appeared like a mosaic or stained glass. As he matured, he could declare, “I am still very much a Byzantine designer and my joy with what color can do grows all the time”. The traceries of strong outlines and bold shapes provide compartments for vibrant colors, contrasts and rough textures that can scarcely be contained. The Kirkland Museum staged a retrospective of Edward and Donna Marecak in 2007.