Title: |
Indito (Indian Boy) |
Artist: |
Greenwood, Marion (Brooklyn, 1909 - Woodstock, New
York, 1970) |
Date: |
c. 1950 - 1960 |
Medium: |
Original Lithograph |
Note: |
Marion Greenwood is arguably one of America's
greatest twentieth century women artists. She left high school at the
age of fifteen to study painting and printmaking at the Art Students League
of New York, under John Sloan and George Bridgman (1924-1928). She then
completed her education at the Academie Colarossi, in Paris. Greenwood
also took lessons in lithography from Emil Ganso in Woodstock, New York
(1929-1930). |
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At the age of twenty-two, Marion Greenwood traveled to the Southwest
to paint Navajo Indians. A year later she was living and working in Mexico,
where her murals brought her work to the attention of the Mexican President
and of Mexico's most famous artist, Orozco. Marion Greenwood's work in Mexico
made her reputation in the United States, and when she returned to America
in 1936 the government frequently commissioned her for public murals. |
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Marion Greenwood was a Professor of Art at the University
of Tennessee (1954-1955) and at Syracuse University (1965). She was elected
a full member of the prestigious National Academy of Design in 1959. Today
her paintings and lithographs are included in the following collections;
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Woodstock Artists Association,
Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Brigham
Young University, Yale University Art Gallery and the Smithsonian American
Art Museum. *( "Tape-Recorded Interview with Marion Greenwood at Woodstock,
New York (1964)," Smithsonian Archives of American Art, http://artarchives.si.edu/
oralhist/greenw64.htm). |
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Beginning in the Second World War, Marion Greenwood worked for
and exhibited her art with the Associated American Artists of New York.
The Associated American Artists 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. All lithographs and etchings
published by the A.A.A. were produced in editions ranging from 100 to
250 impressions. From 1950 to 1970 original lithography became as important
to Greenwood's art as her easel painting or murals. |
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Indito was thus probably commissioned by the A.A.A.
It is one of the artist's largest and most moving portrayals in the medium
of original lithography. The title, "Indito" translates to (Indian Boy). |
Size: |
16 X 12 (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: $495.00 US |
Condition: |
Printed upon wove paper and with full margins as published
between 1950 and 1960.Signed and titled in pencil by the artist along
the lower margin. A strong, finely impression and in excellent condition
throughout. Indito represents a superb, original example of the
art of Marion Greenwood. |
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