WOODCUT Signed ~ EARLY CALIFORNIA MODERNIST ~ 1928 Listed Artist MUSEUM QUALITY

Description: An interesting early hand signed linocut from American artist Peter Krasnow (1886-1979). This 1928 vintage print is an expressionist depiction of a male figure, titled "The Man" in the artist's hand. The image measures 9 1/4 × 4 1/16 inches, sheet size is approx. 11 5/8 x 6 inches. It is printed in a black ink on cream colored imitation japan paper. It is hand signed by the artist as well as titled in pencil. Print is in excellent condition, with no indications that it has ever been framed or matted before. Another impression of this same print is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, see: https://whitney.org/collection/works/12088 Peter Krasnow (1886-1979) was an American modernist artist known for his abstract wood sculptures and architectonic hard-edge paintings and drawings. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1908, and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1916. In 1919 he moved to New York and then settled in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1922, purchasing the land where he built his home and studio from Edward Weston, who was his friend and a fellow member of the early Los Angeles avant-garde. Krasnow was both a sculptor and a painter, he experimented with printmaking for only a couple of years in the late 1920s and these works are rare. His early work was figurative, always modernistic with some influences from the Impressionists to the German Realists. Like many of the artists of his generation his works after 1940 became increasingly abstract. Works by Krasnow are included in the permanent collections of: the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, the Pasadena Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Huntington Library Art Museum, and the Laguna Art Museum. There is a good article on Krasnow in the Los Angeles Times from 2016: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-krasnow-review-20160716-snap-htmlstory.html

Price: 650 USD

Location: Spring Hill, Florida

End Time: 2024-09-25T00:19:41.000Z

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