Rhododendrons 15 x 11 Woodcut-Circa 1940s-Luigi Rist (1888-1959)

Description: As a New Jersey painters specialist who offers on eBay the most diverse array of New Jersey's most highly regarded iconic artists as well as some of the more obscure but significant and deserving past painters including Henry Gasser, Israel Louis Winarsky, John Grabach, Armando Sozio, James Carlin, Gar Sparks, Frank Zuccarelli, Adolf Konrad, Gustave Cimiotti, I am now offering a 13 x 9 3/4 inch (image size) woodcut of "Rhododendrons." The rice paper on which it was done measures 15 by 11 inches. With the new mat it measures 19 by 15 3/4 inches. It was done around the 1940s by listed New Jersey/Pennsylvania master woodcut artist Luigi Rist (1888-1959.) It is signed in script verso(see photos) and on the front it is signed in print below the image area. It is in excellent condition. See the photos. It will be shipped via UPS for $25 and fully insured. Luigi Rist was born in 1888 in Newark, New Jersey, where he attended the Newark Technical School. To earn extra income in his early twenties he etched art nouveau designs on silver fountain pen cases, and in the early 1920s he commuted to the Grand Central School of Art in New York. It was here that he met Sigurd Skow, who taught painting, and Theodore "Ted" Braithwaite, an artist who later worked for the Christian Science Monitor. It was also at this school that he made his first block print. In the early 1930s Rist first saw Japanese woodblocks, at an exhibition in New York that he attended with his friend and mentor Morris Blackburn. Rist was fascinated and began teaching himself the process, developing the style for which he would later become known.His marriage to Ida Rist in 1937 proved to be the change that would allow him to become successful, as Ida supported the household financially and encouraged Rist to fully delve into a professional artistic career.In a time when black-and-white was the ruling printmaking style, Rist was fortunate to be introduced to the American Color Print Society, at whose exhibition he won first prize in 1941 for Sunflowers in the event's second year. He continued to create in his unique style, with simple yet bold images, year after year until the Rists purchased a farm in Vermont. The demands of daily maintenance slowed his drive to create art, and he produced on average about one print per year.Rist died in 1959 in Pennsylvania, where he was still working on the woodcuts that had fascinated him for thirty years.

Price: 800 USD

Location: Westfield, New Jersey

End Time: 2024-08-14T13:51:32.000Z

Shipping Cost: 25 USD