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11/27/2024

Print of the Day!! Wednesday, November 27, 2024 is a color pochoir after a gouache by Spanish artist Joan Miro (1893-1983). -

"Femme encerclées par le vol d'un oiseau", plate XVI from "Constellations" suite, after the 1941 gouache by Joan Miro, is a color stencil, a pochoir, done in 1958, published in 1959 in the portfolio of 22 images by Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, this being plate 16. The image and paper measures ...

10/31/2024

Print of the Day!! Thursday, October 31, 2024 is by modernist printmaker Claude Bentley (1915-1990). Happy Halloween, 2024!!! All Hallows' Day. "Masks" is a lithograph done in 1947. This impression is pencil signed, dated, titled, and editioned 4/10 by the artist in the lower margin. The image measures 10-1/4 x 13-11/16 inches. It was printed by the artist on a sheet of thick cream wove paper that measures 13-5/8 x 16-3/4 inches. The gallery inventory number for this work is 14970: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/detail/14970/Claude-Bentley/Masks

This scarce original lithograph by Claude Ronald Bentley is available at the gallery for $750.00.

Claude Bentley's work was greatly inspired by his time in North Africa on his tour of duty during World War II. When he returned, his interest in the art of ancient cultures led him to study Pre-Columbian, Mesoamerican, and Oceanic sculpture and masks as well. Meanwhile, the burgeoning American mid-century Modernist style, reflecting an enthusiastic global connection in the immediate postwar era, found foothold in the imaginations of artists across the nation.

Representing the exploratory time between his formal art education and his eventual pursuit of non-representational Abstraction, "Masks," is a fine example of this period in American art history. Bentley captures the expression of the masks on the lithostone with the vital imprint of impulse.

A painter, lithographer, and muralist Claude Bentley was based primarily in Chicago, and was also a teacher at Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the North Shore Art League in Winnetka. In addition, he gave numerous lectures and demonstrations.

Bentley, born in New York City, studied at Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1941 to 1945, he was in North Africa with the armed forces and in France. An interest in pre-Columbian culture and the Indians of Mexico and the primitive arts of Africa took him many times to those places and had a strong influence on is painting style. He also became a collector of African, Oceanic, and pre-Columbian art.

The forms in his paintings reference geometric shapes and the simplicities of what has been called "primitive" art. As a muralist, he completed commissions for the Plaza del lago Shopping Center in Wilmette and 3600 Lake Shore Drive Building in Chicago.

In 1949, he became a member of the Chicago Society of Artists. Bentley died in 1990.

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10/30/2024

Print of the Day!! Wednesday, October 30, 2024 is by Taos Printmaker Earl W. Stroh (1924-2005). "Fountain for San Francisco" (also called 'Balconies') is an intaglio, a color etching, done around 1955 by Taos, New Mexico modernist printmaker Earl W. Stroh (1924-2005). The platemark measures 11-5/16 x 13-5/16." This impression is pencil signed and titled by the artist in the lower margin and is annotated "A Jim - epreuve d'artist" (artist's proof). It was printed by the artist in Paris on a thick white wove paper that measures 15 x 18-1/4." The gallery inventory number is 19650: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/detail/19650/Earl-W-Stroh/Fountain-for-San-Francisco-aka-Balconies

This rare color etching by printmaker Earl W. Stroh (1924-2005) is available from the gallery for $1,800.00. Contact the gallery with any condition or other questions.

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"Fountain for San Francisco" is a color etching done by Taos, New Mexico modernist Earl Stroh while he was in Paris while studying printmaking with Johnny Friedlaender at his atelier. Stroh was in Paris on a grant from art patroness Helene Wurlitzer, who lived in Taos.

Stroh printed a small group of proofs of these etchings, intending to edition them back in Taos. Something apparently happened on the ship when he was returning to the US and he lost his records and plates. Because of this incident the edition sizes, though small, are unknown.

This impression is annotated to "Jim" who might well have been from San Francisco. There is another impression of this print in the Museum of New Mexico collection that is titled "Balconies."

Earl W. Stroh, painter and printmaker, was born on 3 September 1924, in Buffalo, New York. He studied at the Art Institute of Buffalo, the Art Students League of New York with Edwin Dickinson, the University of New Mexico, and the Atelier Friedlander in Paris. In 1947, Stroh moved to Taos, New Mexico where he worked with Andrew Dasburg and Tom Benrimo. He was well-connected in Taos and became part of the group of artists known as the Taos Moderns.

In 1940, the heiress Helene Wurlitzer first visited Taos, New Mexico and purchased fourteen acres near the Taos plaza and an adobe home. She divided her time between Cincinnati and Taos for about fourteen years until she settled permanently in Taos. The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation became the Taos-based Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico and the foundation's grants gave financial support to visual, literary and musical artists. Wurlitzer became Stroh's patron and he received a grant from her foundation that allowed him to study etching with Johnny Friedlaender at Atelier Friedlaender in Paris for several years in the mid 1950s.

Earl Stroh began making original lithographs in 1970 when he was invited to be the artist-in-residence at the University of New Mexico's Tamarind Institute. While working at Tamarind, an apprentice printer asked Stroh where he got the patience to execute such meticulous work and he responded, "It's not patience, it is necessity. The only way I can get what I want is slowly and carefully." His subjects are usually panoramic landscapes in which he sought to express "a unity and the possibility of an openness of all forms to all others." Despite the softness and tranquility of his images, they are, as one observed, "made of steel." Stroh also experimented with solar etching at Lynch Press in Taos.

Earl W. Stroh died in Santa Fe, New Mexico on July 3, 2005.
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10/26/2024

Print of the Day!! Saturday, October 26, 2024, is by Prairie printmaker Ted Hawkins (1911-1969). -

Wichita, Kansas based regionalist and Modernist Ted Hawkins was known for his imagery of the prairie and southwest, and was a member of the Prairie Print Makers. Like fellow printmaker Charles Capps, his work often focused on the moody weather and striking geological features of the open-sky country...

10/18/2024

Print of the Day!! Friday, October 18, 2024 is by Impressionist printmaker Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). "Baigneuse pres d'un bois" (Bather Near a Wood) is a lithograph, printed chine collé, done in 1894. The image measures 8-1/8 x 4-15/16 inches. This impression, a fourth state of four, is unsigned but is stamped with the artist's "C.P." (Lugt 613e) initials in the lower left margin and is pencil editioned "9/18" in the lower right margin. Pissarro printed 12 impression of the four states during his lifetime. This impression is from an edition of 18 printed posthumously in 1923 on a sheet of cream Inges appliqué paper that is collaged to a sheet of heavier antique white wove paper that measures 13-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches. References for this image include: Delteil 158 iv/iv and Shapiro 38. Our inventory number for this impression is BYMC196: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/detail/BYMC196/Camille-Pissarro/Baigneuse-pres-dun-bois

This scarce lithograph by 19th century French printmaker Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) is available from the gallery for $3,500.00.

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"Bather Near a Wood" was done in 1894 and was printed in 4 different states of which this is the last, a posthumous edition of 18, editioned and stamped with the "C.P." signature stamp. It is printed on a thin sheet of cream Ingres appliqué paper and adhered to a heavier support sheet. The paper color creates a warm, luminous impression.

Pissarro printed 12 impressions of "Baigneuse près d'un bois": 2 impressions of the 1st state (one is numbered and signed); 2 impressions of the 2nd state (numbered and signed); 4 impressions of the 3rd state (three are numbered and signed); and 4 impressions of the 4th (final) state (three are numbered and signed). It was not formally published during Pissarro's lifetime. 18 impressions numbered and stamped C.P. were printed in 1923.

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10/17/2024

Print of the Day!! Saturday June 12, 2021 is by Arts & Crafts printmaker William Seltzer Rice (1873-1963). "Forbidden Fruit", is a relief print, a color woodcut with hand coloring, by American printmaker William Seltzer Rice, (1873-1963) done around 1925. The image measures 13-1/4 x 12-7/8 inches. This impression is pencil signed and titled by the artist in the lower margin. It was printed and painted by the artist in an edition of around 6 variant impressions on a sheet of ivory laid Japanese paper. Our inventory number for this color woodcut is PMJ296: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/detail/PMJ296/William-Seltzer-Rice/Forbidden-Fruit

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Rice did a number of strong color woodcuts of floral and faunal subjects, some using the white-line method developed in Provincetown, Mass. His editions were usually under 5 impressions, never more than 15 and examples of the colors will vary from impression to impression.

William S. Rice added hand coloring to brighten the composition of this large color woodcut, which was done around 1925. A dynamic, color-saturated piece that injects elegance to the lively subjects.

The white Sulfer Crested Cockatoo and colorful Scarlet Macaw were neighbors of the artist, William S. Rice. His daughter, Roberta Treseder, recalled that the macaw was named Lo**ta and she lived next door while the cockatoo lived around the block. Rice would frequently visit the birds to make sketches of each of them, and for this piece he combined his two feathered friends in one image. Lo**ta sits on her ring perch as the cockatoo watches on from the other side of a bowl filled with pears, oranges, and grapes. Both birds eye the "forbidden fruit" on the table as Lo**ta prepares to enjoy some grapes - or perhaps she is offering some to her visitor in a humorous reference to the tale of Adam and Eve.

William S. Rice was born in Manheim, Pennsylvania. After completing studies at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art and the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, a job offer brought him to California in 1900.

At the age of twenty-seven, he accepted the position as Supervisor of Art in the Stockton Public Schools; a position he held until 1910. That same year, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where, for the next thirty years, Rice taught in Alameda and Oakland, as well as at the University of California Extension and the California College of Arts and Crafts where he earned his BFA in 1929.

During the 1915 Panama Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco, Rice had a chance to study and absorb the techniques of the Japanese woodcuts that he was to incorporate into his own working knowledge of the medium.

In 1918, the first major exhibition of his color woodcuts hung at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Though he gained national recognition for his printmaking, Rice embodied the Craftsman spirit, painting with watercolor and oil, and working in ceramics, hammered copper, and woodworking. He authored three books on the subject of block printing, including Block Prints: How to Make Them, and penned articles on naturalist subjects for Sunset Magazine.

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10/16/2024

Print of the Day!! Wednesday, October 16, 2024 is by color woodblock printmaker Micah Schwaberow (1948-2022). Plus, an announcement of a new catalogue raisonné of his blockprints. "Mount Rainier, Head in the Clouds" is a relief print, a color woodcut by California printmaker Micah Schwaberow, (1948-2022), done in 2000. The image measures 5-1/4 x 14-78 inches. This impression is pencil signed 'Micah', titled, dated, and editioned "42/110" by the artist in the lower margin and was hand printed by the artist in his studio on an ivory wove Arches paper that measures 6-3/4 x 16 inches. Our inventory number for this color woodcut is 21897: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/detail/21897/Micah-Schwaberow/Mount-Rainier-Head-in-the-Clouds

The price of this color woodcut by printmaker Micah Schwaberow (1948-2022) is $675.00.

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"Festival of Light the Color Woodblock Prints of Micah Schwaberow", a beautiful color catalogue raisonné and biography of Micah Schwaberow's work and life, has just been published by Mission Gallery Fine Art in Cambria, California.

The book is 171 pages and has been printed in two editions, the first a Special Limited Edition of 50 copies, available for $395. This hand-signed, cloth-bound hardcover book has a matching slipcase and is numbered 1-50 and contains an original color blockprint, printed by the artist in his Santa Rosa studio.

The softcover edition was printed in a limited edition of 300 copies and sells for $95.00. These are available from the Annex Galleries.

The text was written by Micah Schwaberow and his images and are a chronological 'diary' of the artist's work in various media, including woodblocks, collages, gourd vessels, paintings, book arts, letterpress and cartoons. The text is illustrated with the artist's color woodcuts, including progessive examples.

Finally, there is a list of Exhibits & Collections, biographical information, and a chronological listing of 155 of the artist's blockprints, all of which are illustrated throughout the text.

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Mount Rainier, located in the state of Washington in the Pacific Northwest, is an active volcano that ascends to 14,410 feet above sea level and is the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S.A. Weather patterns at Mount Rainier are strongly influenced by the Pacific Ocean, elevation, and latitude. Clouds often cling to the peak as illustrated in Mount Rainier, Head in the Clouds.

Micah Schwaberow, printmaker, painter and sculptor, was born in Eugene, Oregon in 1948. He studied painting with Maurice Lapp and printmaking with Elizabeth Quandt at the Santa Rosa Junior College in California. In 1981, he spent a month in Miasa, Japan studying traditional woodblock printing and, in 1982, he spent most of the year in Nagai, Japan studying with the Japanese master, Toshi Yoshida, and his master carvers and printers. In September of that year, he was an assistant for his teacher during a three-week woodblock course for foreigners.
Micah Schwaberow, printmaker, painter and sculptor, was born in Eugene, Oregon in 1948. He studied painting with Maurice Lapp and printmaking with Elizabeth Quandt at the Santa Rosa Junior College in California. In 1981, he spent a month in Miasa, Japan studying traditional woodblock printing and, in 1982, he spent most of the year in Nagai, Japan studying with the Japanese master, Toshi Yoshida, and his master carvers and printers. In September of that year, he was an assistant to Yoshida during a three-week woodblock course for foreigners.

Schwaberow gave demonstrations of his techniques at the University of California, Berkeley and at Mills College in Oakland. He produced a number of boxed suites of color woodcuts, including Tuolumne, Book I, which won first prize in a national competition to commemorate Yosemite National Park. In addition to his prints, Schwaberow included a sculptural element to his list of aesthetic endeavors, creating gourd vessels echoing the figures of birds and landscapes.

Micah Schwaberow's work was featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is represented by galleries across the United States. His work is in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and the Wichita Art Museum. In 2009, his color woodcut, Morning Mist, Heath Township, was The Print Club of Cleveland Publication No. 87.

Micah Schwaberow died on 12 July 2022 in Santa Rosa, California

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10/15/2024

Print of the Day!! Tuesday, October 15, 2024 is by American Pop/Neo-Dada artist Jim Dine (born 1935). (Two Ties) done in collaboration with poet Ron Padgett, is a color lithograph, printed both directly and offset, done in 1970 by American painter-printmaker Jim Dine (born 1935). The image measures 17-1/2 x 18 inches and is pencil signed by both Dine and Padgett in the lower image, and editioned "59/75" by the artist in the lower margin. This impression was published by Petersburgh Press and printed by the artist and Master Printer Ernie Donagh on a handmade buff W.S. Hodgkinson wove paper that measures 17-3/8 x 27-1/2" and is watermarked with the artist's and publisher's signatures. There are an additional 15 various artists proofs. A reference for this is Williams College 16-30. The gallery inventory i.d. for this work is JPR108: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/detail/JPR108/Jim-Dine/Two-Ties---From-the-Oo-La-La-portfolio---collaboration-with-Ron-Padgett

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The late 1960s and early 70s saw Dine's interest in literary pursuits grow: he illustrated and published a book of his own poetry entitled "Welcome Home Lovebirds" (Trigram Press, 1969), and he provided drawings and photographs for the publications of Padgett and other New York School poets: Ron Padgett's translation of Apollinaire's "Le Poète Assassiné" (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968), Ron Padgett and Tom Clark's "Bun" (Angel Hair, 1968), and Fragment, by Ted Berrigan (Cape Goliard Press, London 1969). Cape Golliard also published a stylish monograph in 1970 reproducing photographs and drawings titled "The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Jim and Ron".

In 1966, police raided a Jim Dine exhibition in London at the Robert Fraser Gallery. Fraser was charged under the Obscene Publications act and Dine was found to be indecent. After a meteoric rise to artistic prominence in New York, Dine had tired of the city's intense art scene, and this incident was the final straw. He moved with his family to London in 1967 and began producing work at Petersburg Press, where he would become a longtime collaborator.

As a student, Dine had cited the great American poets, Ron Padgett, Robert Creeley and Ted Berrigan, of the New York School as early inspirations, and in London, he eagerly took the opportunity to work with Padgett at Petersburg Press on the book of poetry, contributing 8 images, of which this is one.

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10/14/2024

Print of the Day!! Tuesday, October 14, 2024 is by Navajo printmaker Rudolph Carl (R.C.) Gorman. (1907-1997). A posting for Indigenous Peoples' Day - 2024. "Mask #4 (Apache)" is a planographic print, a color lithograph by Navajo printmaker Rudolph Carl (R.C.) Gorman (1933-2005), done in 1975. The image and paper measure 16 x 13-1/8 inches. It is pencil signed and dated by the by the artist and editioned "7 of 15" in the lower image. This impression was published and printed by the artist and Master Printer John Gruenwald at Windmill Press (their chop, lower center) in San Francisco on a sheet of heavy, Arches Buff wove paper. A reference for this image is the Gorman work number, Steen 75-35. It is illustrated on page 66 of the Adams/Newlin raisonné 'R.C. Gorman The Graphic Works.' Our inventory number for this impression is 8423: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/detail/8423/RC-Gorman/Mask-no4-Apache

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A rare early work by R.C. Gorman, this is the fourth in a series of six masks that he did in 1975, before he moved on to the figurative images that he became known for. "Mask No. 4" was printed in San Francisco by Windmill Press Master Printer John Gruenwald, who Gorman cited as a supportive and inspirational collaborator who encouraged him to create the series.

Gorman's image comes from the Apache Mountain Spirits Legend: Representatives of the Mountain People, called Crown Dancers, appear among the Apache tribespeople people in masked form. Apaches tell many stories of the Mountain Spirits, usually attesting to their power to cure and protect, or to the ill consequences of showing disrespect toward the Spirits.

This print was done in a small editon of 15, plus 6 various proofs.
Rudolph Carl (R.C.) Gorman was born on July 26, 1931 in Chinle, Arizona. His mother was Adele Katherine Brown, and his father Carl Gorman was a noted Navajo painter and teacher, who later became a code talker during WWII.

Gorman grew up in a traditional Navajo hogan and began drawing at age three. His grandmother helped raise him, recounting Navajo legends and enumerating his genealogy of artist ancestors. She kindled his desire to become an artist. While tending sheep in Canyon de Chelly with his aunts, he used to draw on the rocks, sand, and mud, and made sculptures with the clay, with his earliest subjects including Mickey Mouse and Shirley Temple.

He credited his teacher Jenny Lind at Granado Presbyterian Mission School for his inspiration to become a full-time artist. After he left high school, he served in the Navy before entering college, where he majored in Literature and minored in Art at Northern Arizona University. In 1958, he received the first scholarship from the Navajo Tribal Council to study outside of the United States, and enrolled in the art program at Mexico City College. There he learned of and was influenced by the work Diego Rivera. He later studied art at San Francisco State College, where he also worked as a model.

Gorman moved from California to New Mexico, opening the R. C. Gorman Navajo Gallery in Taos in 1968. It was the first Native American-owned art gallery in Taos. In 1973, he was the only living artist whose work was shown in the "Masterworks of the American Indian" show held at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, NY. One of his pieces was selected for the cover of the exhibit's catalog.

Gorman's work was explored in a series on American Indian artists for the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). Other artists in the series included Helen Hardin, Charles Loloma, Allan Houser, Joseph Lonewolf, and Fritz Scholder.

R.C. Gorman died at University Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico on November 3, 2005 after a fall in his home.

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