Title: |
Freeway Hearts |
Artist: |
Blair, Philippa (Christchurch, New Zealand, born, 1945 - Resides, Venice, California) |
Date: |
1984 |
Medium: |
Original Lithograph |
Note: |
Philippa Blair: A contemporary painter and print
maker, Philippa Blair graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from Canterbury
University in 1967. She has both taught and exhibited her art for more
than twenty-five years in New Zealand, the United States, Australia, Japan,
France, Italy, Germany and Malaysia. Her art has received QEII Arts Council
grants in 1982, 1984 and 1987. |
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Since 1980, Philippa Blair has worked in both Auckland, New
Zealand, and Los Angeles, California. Her most recent American exhibitions
include solo shows in Los Angeles (1998) and at the Spencer Gallery, Rhode
Island (1999). Most of Philippa Blair's original lithographs have been published in
very small numbers. Freeway Hearts, for example, was published in a limited
edition of but six impressions. The artist is currently represented in
New Zealand by Paper Graphica Fine Print Studio. |
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Philippa Blair recieved the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Grant (1980 and 1983). She Also received the Air NZ Queen Elizabeth II Arts Travel Award (1987). Today the art of Philippa Blair is included in the permanent collections the National Gallery of Australia, the New Zealand Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, the University of Aukland, Auckland, Waikato Museum of art and History, Hamilton, Griffs Art Center, New London, CT, the Citibank Collection, New York, as well as many other important private and public institutions in New Zealand, Australia Great Britain, USA, Germany Switzerland, Italy and elsewhere. |
Edition: |
Limited Edition of Six impressions, Numbered 6/6. |
Size: |
17 X 20 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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UnMatted |
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Price: $495.00 US |
Condition: |
Printed upon Arches rag paper and with full, deckled margins
as published in 1984. Signed, titled, dated and numbered, "IV/VI", by
the artist in pencil along the lower margin. A finely printed impression
and in excellent condition throughout. Freeway Hearts represents
both a scarce and important example of the art of Philippa Blair. |
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