Title: |
Lonesome Sunday |
Artist: |
Koppel, Stanley (San Francisco, Active c. 1945 - 1970) |
Date: |
c. 1960 |
Medium: |
Original Etching |
Note: |
Stanley Koppel: Shortly after the end of the Second
World War, San Francisco became a major center for liberal and leftist
artists. In 1945 the California Labor School was founded in San Francisco.
It offered a wide range of art classes to working people and returning
war veterans. During the height of McCarthyism (1948) the school was forced
to shut down because some members of faculty were Communist. In 1952,
however, a cooperative school, the Graphic Arts Workshop, was formed to
continue the work of its predecessor. Its founding members included Stanley
Koppel, Pele DeLappe, Irving Fromer, Frank Rowe, Louise Gilbert, Victor
Arnautoff and others. The Graphic Arts Workshop exists to this day and
its principal mandate continues to be to produce socially significant
art. |
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A fine painter and printmaker, Stanley Koppel exhibited
his art in San Francisco and other California cities from around 1945
to 1970. In September of 1959 an etching of Koppel's, entitled, Men
Drinking at a Bar, was presented to Nikita Khrushchev during his historic
visit to the United States. Lonesome Sunday was created by the
artist around this time and clearly shows his power of depicting social
and urban issues. |
Edition: |
Limited edition of thirty impressions, numbered 15/30. |
Size: |
6 3/8 X 4 3/8 (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: $265.00 US |
Condition: |
Printed upon archival paper and with full, deckled margins
as published by the artist around 1960. Signed, titled and numbered, '15/30',
by Koppel in pencil under the plate-mark. A finely printed impression
with full plate tone and in excellent condition throughout. Lonesome
Sunday represents a prime example of the art of Stanley Koppel and
of the early work of the San Francisco Graphic Arts Workshop. |
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