Title: |
Library Table |
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, Rand 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: |
Limited edition of thirty impressions, numbered 7/30. |
Size: |
12 X 14 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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UnMatted |
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Price: $395.00 US |
Condition: |
Printed upon heavy, hand-made, laid paper and with full
margins as published in 1980. Signed, dated and numbered, ‘7 /30’ by
the artist in pencil along the lower margin. A finely printed impression
and in excellent condition throughout. "Library Table" represents a fine,
original example of the contemporary American art of Archie Rand. |
Subject: |
Archie Rand, "Library Table", original lithograph, the Tel
Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, Laureate of the National Foundation for Jewish
Culture, Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College. |
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