Estate of Robert Arneson
During September the George Adams Gallery will present Multiple Artists: Prints and Editioned Works, 1967-2003, a survey of multiples by gallery artists. The exhibition will feature works in two and three dimensions by Carlos Alfonzo, Robert Arneson, Chester Arnold, Luis Cruz Azaceta, James Barsness, Jose Bedia, Joan Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Mel Chin, Don Colley, Roy Deforest, Lesley Dill, James McGarrell, Willard Midgette, Peter Saul, Richard Shaw, Joyce Treiman, H C Westermann, and Sandy Winters.
Working with such fine arts presses and foundries as Landfall, Walla-Walla, Shark's Inc, Vinalhaven, Pyramid Atlantic, Magnolia and Trillium, gallery artists have long been involved with making prints and three-dimensional multiples. Several of the artists developed longstanding relationships with certain printers and foundries over the years, including Chagoya, who has regularly made prints with Sharks Inc in Boulder, Colorado for the past 8 years; Dill with Landfall Press in Chicago for the past ten years; while Arneson cast all his bronze works - a total of 95 between 1980 and 1992 - exclusively with Walla Walla Foundry in Washington. Others, such as Azaceta, McGarrell, and Saul, have worked with a variety of printers depending on their needs, while Westermann, Midgette, and Winters often made prints independently in their studios. This is the case with Sandy Winter's 6 foot-long woodcut Georgia, 2003, and Westermann's Connecticut Ballroom, 1975, for which he not only printed each impression himself, but also carved all of the blocks as well - which explains why the suite is irregularly editioned.
The exhibition begins with two color lithographs by H.C. Westermann, Red Planet J and Death Ship of No Port from 1967 and ends with Roy DeForest's polychrome bronze Dog Bench completed especially for this show. Other works includes lithographs such as Peter Saul's Angela Davis Crucifixion from 1972, and Amboosh, from 1975, Jack Beal's Self-portrait and Oysters, Wine and Lemon, both from 1974, Azaceta's Oppression III, 1987, Bedia's Dobles, 1994, and Dill's Ecstacy, 1997. There are also monotypes by Alfonzo, McGarrell and Joyce Treiman, engravings by Midgette, and woodcuts by Arneson and Sandy Winters. Most of the artists make prints using a variety of techniques, and there are prints by Joan Brown and Winters combining lithography with woodcut and chine colle, a Chagoya, which mixes woodcut and lithograph, and a Treiman drypoint, which she has overworked with watercolors. With Unknown Nourishment Dill in typical fashion, incorporates lithography, chine colle, etching, along with multiple layers of paper and thread.
Three-dimensional works in the exhibition include Arneson's bronze portrait of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Two Fried Commie Jew Spies, 1987, a cast porcelain soup tureen from 1997 in the form of an ocean liner by Richard Shaw, Enrique Chagoya's suite of ten soup cans titled The Enlightened Savage, 2002, Mel Chin's Elementary Object, from 1993, Lesley Dill's book ,A Thrill Came Slowly, 1996, as well as the bench by Roy DeForest.
Exhibition Checklist
Roy DeForest
Dog Bench, 2001-2003
cast polychrome bronze
68 x 48 x 35 inches
RDs 4
Robert Arneson
Eye of the Beholder, 1988
woodcut
40 1/4 x 30 inches, ed. 6/20
Printed by the artist with John Stemmer, Benicia, CA
RAr 01.06
H.C. Westermann
Red Planet J, 1967
3-color lithograph
30 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches, ed. 24/50
Published by Kansas City Art Institute Impressions, Kansas City, MO
HCWr 02.08
H.C. Westermann
Red Deathship (Death Ship of No Port), 1967
3-color lithograph
18 x 24 inches, ed. 26/50
Published by Kansas City Art Institute Impressions, Kansas City, MO
HCWr 04.29
Peter Saul
Angela Davis, 1972
4-color lithograph
37 1/2 x 30 inches, edition of 100, AP
Published by Landfall Press, Chicago
PSr 1.03
Peter Saul
Amboosh, 1975
color lithograph
30 x 40 inches, ed. 1/50
Published by Landfall Press, Chicago
PSr 2.01
NFS
Luis Cruz Azaceta
Oppression III, 1987
color lithograph
35 x 23 inches, edition AP 2
Published by HUN Atelier, New Jersey
LCAr 02.23
Robert Arneson
Two Fried Commie Jew Spies, 1987
bronze, ed. 1/3
10 x 22 x 8 1/2 inches
Cast at Walla Walla Foundry, Walla Walla, WA
RAs 32.01
Jose Bedia
Dobles, 1994
lithograph on paper
30 x 38 inches paper, edition 2/20
Published by Vinalhaven Press
JoBr 07.02
Carlos Alfonzo
Head I, 1990
monotype, ink on paper
31 x 22 1/2 inches
Printed by the artist
CALd 6
Carlos Alfonzo
Head II, 1990
monotype, ink on paper
29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches
Printed by the artist
CALd 7
Carlos Alfonzo
Head III, 1990
monotype, ink on paper
29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches
Printed by the artist
CALd 8
Carlos Alfonzo
Head IV, 1990
montoype, ink on paper
31 x 22 1/2
Printed by the artist
CALd 9
Sandy Winters
Pretexts and Subtexts, 2003
block print
17 3/4 x 72-3/4 inches, trial proof
Printed by the artist
Jack Beal
Oysters, Wine and Lemons, 1974
4 color lithograph
20 1/4 x 23 1/2, edition of 91
Published by Allan Frumkin Gallery and Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York
JBr 12. PP
Enrique Chagoya
The Enlightened Savage, 2002
digital print mounted to water filled enamel lined can
(10 cans)
15 3/4 x 14 x 2 3/4 inches, ed. of 40
Published by Trillium Press, Brisbane, CA
ECr 19.06
Joyce Treiman
Seated Woman, 1975
handcolored etching on paper
plate: 14 3/4 x 12 3/4", paper: 19 1/2 x 17"
JTr 09
Jack Beal
Self-portrait, 1974
black and white lithograph on paper
30 x 22 1/4 inches, ed. 44/52
JBr 10.44
Willard Midgette
Senta, 1974
engraving
11 x 8 1/2 inches, ed. 1/40
Printed by the artist
WMr 01
Willard Midgette
Rifka 1975
engraving
15 x 11 inches, ed. 2/40
Printed by the artist
WMr 02
Lesley Dill
Homage to N.S., 1997
lithograph, etching, silkscreen
34 x 43 1/2 inches, edition 18/35
Published by Landfall Press, Chicago
LDr 19.18
Richard Shaw
Ship Tureen #2, 1993
porcelain with decal overglaze
5 1/2 x 21 x 4 1/2 inches
RSs 56
Enrique Chagoya
Hand of Power, 1997
color lithograph, woodcut on paper
25 x 37 inches, ed. 15/30
Published by Shark?s Inc., Lyon, CO
ECr 18.15
Joan Brown
Golden Gate Bridge, 1987
woodcut/lithograph
36 1/4 x 26 1/4 inches, edition 45/80
Published by Magnolia Editions
JBRr 01.45
Lesley Dill
Unknown Nourishment, 2001
litho, etching, collage on paper
27 x 21 3/8 inches, edition 18/50
Published by Landfall Press, Chicago
LDr 39.18
James Barsness
The Serpent of Midgaard, 1999
etching & aquatint with chine colle
24 x 29 1/2 inches, edition 9/20
Published by Landfall Press, Chicago
JBARr 01.09
Don Colley
Fuel, 2003
lino-cut
28 1/4 x 34-3/4 inches, trial proof
Printed by the artist with Tom Huck, Evil Prints, St. Louis
DCr 03
Chester Arnold
Stripmine, 1998
color lithograph on paper, edition AP 4/5
30 x 39 3/4 inches
Published by Tamarind Press
CAr 1.04ap