Original Large "Dance of Life" Serigraph Print by Sidney Jonas Budnick

Description

Sidney Jonas Budnick (American, 1921 – 1994)
Dance of Life, 1980
Lithograph, 25 by 40 inches
Hand Signed and numbered … more Sidney Jonas Budnick (American, 1921 – 1994)
Dance of Life, 1980
Lithograph, 25 by 40 inches
Hand Signed and numbered in pencil 65/104

Please see photos. Some handling marks that have no impact once framed.

Due to the size of this print, it will be shipped in an extra large tube (which costs a little more but protects the print).

Sidney Jonas Budnick (June 18, 1921 – August 25, 1994) was an American abstract artist.

While living in New York, Sidney Budnick met the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. Budnick was greatly influenced by Mondrian's work and the De Stijl art movement. Budnick studied under Hans Hofmann, an abstract expressionist artist and teacher, and was friends with Harry Holtzman and Carl Holty, founders of the American Abstract Artists group.

Sidney Budnick also was encouraged by Hilla Rebay, the artistic advisor for Solomon R. Guggenheim. In 1939, Guggenheim and Rebay opened the Museum of Non-objective Painting, later named the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Rebay supported many artist, including Sidney Budnick, by hiring them as support staff at the museum. Some of Sidney Budnick's early work is classified with other works of the Museum of Non-objective Painting.

After serving in the army during World War II, Budnick earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at the IIT Institute of Design. While there, he studied under László Moholy-Nagy, the founding director of the New Bauhaus and head of the School of Design (renamed the Institute of Design in 1944).

In 1952 he completed his Master of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design studying under Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus school in Germany. less