WARRINGTON COLESCOTT Color Drypoint PATRIOTICKS Etching Aquatint PENCIL SIGNED

Description: Artist: WARRINGTON COLESCOTT (American, 1921 - 2018)Title: "Patrioticks" 1969Medium: Original Hand-Pulled Color Drypoint, Soft-ground Etching with Aquatint with roulette, vibrograver, found letterpress photo plates and relief rolls through stencils, printed in color on light cream, thick, moderately textured wove paper.Signature: Hand-Signed in Pencil, and dated "1969" by the Artist, LREdition: Limited Edition of only 30 impressions; this one numbered "15/30" in Pencil, LLSize: 19 13/16 x 23 5/8 inches; 60.5 x 65.4 cm (plate); 22 5/8 x 29 15/16 inches; 72.7 x 96.5 cm (sheet)Printer: The Artist with the assistance of Frances MyersReference: "The Prints of Warrington Colescott: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1948-2008" by Mary Weaver Chapin and Daniel T. Keegan (2010), catalogue no. 145, page 156. Also Elvehjem cat. no. 141.Notes: Here Colescott conflates the contemporary assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. with that of Abraham Lincoln, pictured in a found photo plate at right. He tried the conflicting, violent representations together with rich soft-ground textures created from tooled leather book covers that he either pressed into the soft ground or inked and printed in relief as a plate. This image and its proof plates are discussed in Fritz Eichenberg's "The Art of the Print: Masterpieces, History, Techniques" 1976, pp. 362 - 364.Provenance: Hatay Stratton Fine ArtAbout the Artist: Warrington Colescott was an important figure, as teacher and artist, in the post World War II flowering of printmaking at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He was one of the innovators in advancing technique and imagery in print culture that made Madison one of this country’s creative hotspots. His etchings continue to be recognized internationally for the satiric bite of his narrative subject matter which often comments on the state of the world as seen through his eyes. Narration is at the core of his art. The source of its journalistic aspect goes back to a childhood fascination with comic strips and to his college student involvement in political and sports cartoons. He taught printmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1949 to 1986; he is the Leo Steppat Chair Professor of Art Emeritus, a Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy and an Academician of the National Academy of Design. His prints are held in most major public collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The Milwaukee Art Museum honored Colescott with a retrospective exhibition of his prints and paintings in 2005. Colescott’s work is in museum collections across the United States and Europe, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, New York Public Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate, Columbus Museum of Art, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, among others. In his home state of Wisconsin, numerous institutions hold his work; these include the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend, the Racine Art Museum, and the Milwaukee Art Museum, which has the largest collection of his work in the world, numbering more than 250 prints, drawings, and paintings.

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