Italo Scanga

Pottery

Italo Scanga's Pottery is an original monotype by the American sculptor, painter and printmaker in 1987. This original impression is printed, upon very thick hand-made, rag paper, signed and dated by the artist in pencil. Italo Scanga employed brilliant overlaying painted colors of yellow, red, brown, black and green to create this exceptional monotype. Most of Scanga's original monotypes were created between 1985 and 1995.

Note: First used by Castiglione in the 17th Century, the Monotype or Monoprint lays a claim to both printmaking and painting. The method produces only a single impression by using pressure to transfer an image painted on one surface (usually glass) to another (usually paper).

Original Monotype (Monoprint) by the American artist, Italo Scanga.

Pottery

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Artist:	Scanga, Italo (Lago, Calabria, Italy, 1932 - La Jolla, California, 2001)
Date:	1987
Medium:	Original Monotype (Monoprint)
Note:	Italo Scanga: A major twentieth century American sculptor, painter and printmaker, Italo Scanga first worked in Italy as a cabinetmaker's apprentice. He emigrated to America at the age of fifteen (1947) and settled in Garden City, Michigan. From 1951 to 1953 Scanga studied at the Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit. In 1956 he enrolled at Michigan State University and received his MA degree there in 1961. He then accepted his first teaching post at the University of Wisconsin. During his career Scanga also taught at such institutions as the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, Tyler School of Art, Pilchuck Glass School and at the University of California, San Diego.
	Italo Scanga began exhibiting his art in the early 1960's . In 1972 his work was the subject of a one-man exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Subsequent solo exhibitions were held at Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (1985), Oakland Museum (1986), Amalfi Arte, Amalfi, Italy (1987) and Tacoma Art Museum (1993). Today the sculpture, paintings and prints of Italo Scanga are included in the following public collections: Albertina Museum, Vienna, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, the Oakland Museum of California, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Butler Institute of American Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art and Yale University.
	Scanga first gained national recognition for his sculpture, particularly those constructed with everyday objects. He also, however, devoted much of his career creating original prints, glass and ceramics. In the former category Scanga worked in engraving, woodcuts, lithography and the monotype. Most of the artist's original monotypes (monoprints) were created between 1985 and 1995. Pottery, an original monotype created by Scanga in 1987, employs overlaying painted colors of yellow, red, brown, black and green.
Edition:	Limited to one impression.
Size:	8 3/4 X 6 1/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $850.00 US
Condition:	Impressed upon very thick hand-made, rag paper and with full, deckled margins. Signed and dated by the artist in pencil to the extreme lower right. Containing slight scraping along the lower margin (well away from the actual image), else in very good condition throughout with strong, unfaded tones and colors. Pottery represents a prime, original example of the famous art of Italo Scanga.
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