Title: |
Europa |
Artist: |
Fink, Herbert Lewis 'Herbert Fink' (Born, Providence, Rhode Island, 1921 - Died, Rockport, Maine, 2006) |
Date: |
c. 1965 |
Medium: |
Original Etching |
Publisher: |
Associated American Artists, New York |
Edition: |
Limited edition of one hundred impressions, 10/100. |
Note: |
Herbert Fink 'Herbert Lewis Fink': A fine American twentieth century
landscape and figure artist, Herbert Fink has produced many accomplished
paintings and drawings but is today most strongly regarded for his striking
etchings, watercolors and drawings of the female nude. He first enrolled
at the Art Students' League of New York (1941-1942) and then served in the
U.S. Army in France during the Second World War. Following the end of the
war Fink resumed his artistic training and received his Bachelor of Fine
Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1948. He then taught drawing
and design at the University of Kansas (1949) and at the Albright-Knox Art
School, Buffalo, New York (1950). A year later he resigned to accept the
Chaloner Fellowship, which enabled him to travel and study in Europe. |
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In 1958 Herbert Fink graduated from Yale University with a
Masters of Fine Arts and for the following three years taught art classes
at both Yale and at the Rhode Island School of Design. Herbert Fink was
made Professor of Art and Chairman of the Art Department at Southern Illinois
University in 1961. He later became Director of the School of Fine Art at
that University and held this post until his retirement after 1987. During the last part of his life, Herbert Fink worked from his studio in Rockport, Maine. |
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In recognition for his distinguished work as an artist, teacher,
arts administrator and scholar, Herbert Fink received numerous awards.
He received the Chaloner Fellowship on two occasions, the Tiffany Award,
the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Ford Foundation Purchase Award. He was
made a Trustee of the Tiffany Foundation as well as the John R. and
Eleonor R. Mitchell Foundation. Fink was elected to the National Academy
of Design and was honored by Governor James Thompson as the Visual Artist
of the Year for the State of Illinois in 1986. |
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Herbert Fink's first one man exhibition of his art took place
in 1962. Since that time his work has been the subject of solo exhibitions
at institutions such as Ohio State University (1969), Cornell University
(1978), the San Diego Museum of Art (1979), the University of Mississippi
(1981) and the Republic of China (1986). The original drawings and etchings
of Herbert Fink are included in the following collections; the Georgia Museum
of Art, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, the University
of Michigan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery,
the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, Yale University Art
Gallery, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Trishuvan University, Nepal, Liaoning
University, China, Chinese University, Hong Kong and Escola de Bela Artes,
Bahia, Brazil. |
Provenance: |
This impression of Europa was included in the collection
of the Associated American Artists of New York. The A.A.A. was created in
the mid 1930's and commissioned original graphic art from such great American
masters as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and many others.
In the 1960's its artists included Jack Levine, Sidney Chafetz and Herbert
Lewis Fink. In all probability, therefore, Europa was published
by the Associated American Artists. |
Size: |
9 1/4 X 14 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height
preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
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Price: $525.00 US |
Condition: |
Printed upon thick, hand-made, laid paper and with large margins
as published in the sole limited edition of 100 impressions. Signed, titled
and numbered, '10/100', by the artist in pencil under the lower plate-mark.
Europa is a finely printed, rich impression and in excellent condition
throughout. This original etching stands as a superb example of the art
of Herbert Lewis Fink, one of America's great modern masters of the nude. |
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