The Juiciest Tomato of All by Corita Kent
1964 / Screenprint edition of 60 / Sheet: 29 3/4″x36″
Various collections, including Hammer Museum, LA, CA
1964 / Screenprint edition of 60 / Sheet: 29 3/4″x36″
Various collections, including Hammer Museum, LA, CA
c.1936-1940 / Color silkscreen on poster board / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, DC
The celebrated designer Jed Johnson, who died tragically in 1996 in the crash of TWA Flight 800…first met artist Andy Warhol when he was hired to sweep the floors at Warhol’s famous factory. He would go on to become Warhol’s companion and lover—helping him find and decorate the East 66th Street townhouse where Johnson and the artist lived until the two split in 1976… ~curbed.com/
Jed Johnson and Archie by Andy Warhol
c.1975 / Polaroid prints / Private collection
Jed Johnson by Andy Warhol
1978-87 / Gelatin silver print / Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Jed Johnson by Andy Warhol
c.1978 / Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen / The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
1999 / Silkscreen print, varnish / Image 27 7/8”x30 9/16” / Various collections, including MoMA, NYC
See also: March 31~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
https://schristywolfe.com/2018/03/31/march-31-womens-history-month-in-visual-arts/
2007 / Silkscreen with 110 colors on paper / 28 1/2”x20” / Various: Edition of 58 + 8 AP
“Utah Is Home To The First KFC In The Country”~
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/utah/first-kfc-in-the-country-ut/
Previous September 24 posts:
Hispanic Artists~September 24
Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/24~
2015-2016 / Watercolor on paper / 35”x47 3/4” / Bob Dylan, Halcyon Gallery
Previous March 19 posts:
March 19~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/19~
1967 / Oil and silkscreen ink on canvas /45”x67 1/2” / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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1975 / 23 hand-colored gelatin silver prints / 20 1/2”x33 1/2” / Collection of Dorothy & Peter Waldt
Cy Twombly (1928-2011) Iconic large-scale marks scribbled and smeared on raw canvas or linen
http://www.galerie-karsten-greve.com/en/cy_twombly/biography
Untitled [Gaeta] / 2007 / Acrylic, wax crayon, lead pencil on wooden panel / 99 1/4”x217 3/8”
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Artist, director and producer explored popular culture in his work
http://warholfoundation.org/legacy/biography.html
Flowers / 1964 / Offset lithograph / sheet: 22 13/16”x23 1/16″
Richmond Barthé (1901-1989)
African-American sculptor with many notable public works
http://thejohnsoncollection.org/richmond-barthe/
Head of a Woman / date? / Bronze / 15”x9x8 1/2”
William H. Johnson (1901-1970)
African-American expressionist painter and printmaker
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/william-h-johnson-2486
Training for War / c.1941 / Screenprint and pochoir with hand additions / 11 7/16”x17 3/8″
Kruger’s spectacular corpus, spanning four decades, is often described as political—and it is. But just as much it creates these moments of internal identity confusion in which we don’t know if we are acting as victim, oppressor, or witness. Usually, we are all of the above.
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Kruger famously—and perhaps, at first, inadvertently—got her training as an artist the hard way: through a full-time job as a magazine designer at Condé Nast, starting out at Mademoiselle. And while some of those early layout techniques of bold graphics inform her work, a pulsating visual-linguistic triple-take keeps all of her pieces so alive that she’s become known for her own immediately identifiable, authoritative style—even if authority is what is being questioned in the authoritative typeface.
• http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/feminist/Barbara-Kruger.html
• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/barbara-krugers-artwork-speaks-truth-to-power-137717540/?all