Title: |
Roots |
Artist: |
Burkert, Robert Randall (Green Bay, Wisconsin, born,
1930) |
Date: |
1968 |
Medium: |
Original Silk-Screen Printed in Color |
Publisher: |
Associated American Artists, New York |
Edition: |
Limited edition of forty impressions. |
Note: |
Robert Randall Burkert 'Robert Burkert': A
fine American painter, illustrator and printmaker, Robert Randall Burkert began his art education with a scholarship at the Charles A.
Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine. He studied under Dean Meeker, Alfred Sessler, John Wilde, Don Anderson and
other influential artists of the time. Robert Burkert obtained his fine art degree from UW-Madison in 1952 where he later
became professor and head of the Graphics department. Throughout his career, he received such major awards as the Boston Print Makers Award,
the Wisconsin Arts Board Grant, the Governor's Award Print Commission and others. A master of many styles and artistic
mediums, Robert Burkert has produced an impressive collection of paintings, drawings and graphic art throughout his
career. Roots is a fine, original example of the silkscreen art created by Burkert during the 1960's. |
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Robert Burkert's artwork has been included in many solo and group exhibitions
in such prestigious institutions as, the Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
the Bergstrom Art Center, Wisconsin, the Institute of Chicago the Associated American Galleries, the Butler Art Institute
of American art, Youngstown, Ohio and other important institutions. Today his fine art is included in such major collections as the Museum of Wisconsin Art,
the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Tate Museum, UK, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and other important private and public institutions. |
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Robert Randall Burkert's original silkscreen, "Roots" was commissioned
by the Associated American Artists. Founded in New York in the mid 1930's,
the Associated American Artists commissioned etchings, woodcuts and lithographs
from such prominent American masters as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton,
Reginald Marsh, Marion Greenwood and many others. |
Size: |
10 3/4 X 14 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height
preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
Condition: |
Printed on laid 'Strathmore Cromo' watermarked paper and
with wide, full margins as published in New York by the Associated American
Artists in 1968. It is a beautiful, full colour printing and
in excellent condition throughout. Signed, numbered and titled by the
artist in pencil along the lower margin. |
Price: |
Sold - The price is no longer available. |
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