Title: |
Lawn Furniture |
Artist: |
Rand, Archie (Brooklyn, Born, 1950) |
Date: |
1980 |
Medium: |
Original Colour Lithograph |
Note: |
Archie Rand: A contemporary New York City
painter, muralist and printmaker, Archie Rand received his B.A. in cinegraphics
from the Pratt Institute. Beginning around 1970 he worked as an assistant
to the abstract painter and printmaker, Larry Poons. His first solo exhibition
took place at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, in 1966. |
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Jazz and Judaism have played key roles in Archie Rand’s
work. In 1974 he began a three year project painting murals inside the
B’nai Yosef Synagogue, Brooklyn. It is reported to be the only
synagogue in the world covered completely with murals. |
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Today such museums as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago include examples of Archie
Rand’s art in their permanent collections. |
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Archie Rand is a Laureate of the National Foundation for
Jewish Culture and has received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1999).
Also an important educator, Rand is the former chair of the Department
of Visual Arts, Columbia University, and is currently Presidential Professor
of Art at Brooklyn College. |
Edition: |
Edition of thirty impressions & five Printer's Proofs (First Printed Artist Proof 'P.P.1') |
Size: |
23 1/2 X 31 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Price: $495.00 US |
Condition: |
Printed upon heavy, hand-made, laid paper and with full
margins as published in 1980. Bearing the blindstamp of a hand in the
lower right corner. Signed, dated and marked ‘P.P. 1’ by
the artist in pencil along the lower margin. This stands for ‘Printer’s
Proof’ and means that this was the first impression pulled from
the stone before the regular edition of thirty was printed. A fine, strong
impression and in excellent condition throughout. "Lawn Furniture" represents
one of Archie Rand’s largest and most impressive original lithographs. |
Subject: |
Archie Rand, "Lawn Furniture", original lithograph, Printer’s
Proof Impression, Larry Poons, B’nai Yosef Synagogue, contemporary
New York City painter, muralist and printmaker. |
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