- Home
- Decor
- Room Accents & Accessories
- Textile Art
- Robert Freimark, 70's Large Colorful Abstract Exp…
Or save it to favorites and we'll tell you if this item goes on sale!
- Get the Chairish App
- to view in your space
Robert Freimark, 70's Large Colorful Abstract Expressionist Art Protis Tapestry Wool Wall Hanging, 1974
- Get the Chairish App
- to view in your space
Details
Description
Art Protis Wall Tapestry
Robert Freimark (1922 - 2010)
Bob Freimark was active/lived in Ohio, California, Michigan. Robert Freimark is …
more
Art Protis Wall Tapestry
Robert Freimark (1922 - 2010)
Bob Freimark was active/lived in Ohio, California, Michigan. Robert Freimark is known for abstract expressionist painting, figurative-Mexico, teaching.
Subject matter for which known: "I am an abstract-expressionist, but I am committed to the belief that all artists must thoroughly know and pursue the figure and the figurative genre, in the same sense that a pianist regularly practices the scale."
Freimark attended art classes at the Toledo Museum of Art. At that time the Toledo Museum of Art was the third most significant museum in the U.S. He was deeply involved in sports, particularly boxing and football. He won the Diamond Belt Tournament in Detroit and got to meet Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey. After the war Freimark attended the University of Toledo, and studied with Hal Lotterman and Harvey Littleton, plus an excellent faculty at the Toledo Museum of Art. He went on to gain a Masters in Fine Arts at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he was tutored by Eliel Saarinen in architecture and Carl Milles in sculpture. Following Cranbrook, he returned to Toledo, where he lived near Israel Abramofsky, who had been one of the expatriates in Paris during the blooming of Modern art. Later he studied with Max Weber, from that same period.
His suite of serigraphs, "Fifty States," toured Europe in 1970-71 and includes one example of each of the U.S. fifty states. His outdoor painting classes led him to set up the Artist in Residence program for the National Parks, which he initiated at Yosemite in 1984. Freimarks travels abroad introduced him to Art Protis, the tapestry technique perfected in Communist Czechoslovakia, where I worked seasonally for 25 years, immersed in a technique that was very related to painting. Film-making occupied a good deal of his time at the turn of the century. In 2005 he had completed "El Dia Tarasco" in Mexico, "Arte Cubano" in Cuba, "Los Desaparecidos" in Argentina, and "Royal Chicano Air Force" in California. Known for Contemporary Art, 20th Century Art, Abstract Landscape, Tapestry and Wall Hanging, Painting, Textile Arts, Political art.
"I consider myself a painter. But to be a painter, you have to under-stand line, and drawing. Drawing leads directly into print-making. And finally there is sculpture, and architecture, to house the art." "I was motivated by the people before me, Matisse and Cezanne particularly, and eventually Willem De Kooning. I understood from those early masters that it is the province and discipline of an artist to utilize whatever media he confronts, or whatever exists around him, and particularly the media most pertinent to the subject at hand."
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
Rockefeller Center (sponsor: Prang Crayon Co.), 1954
Des Moines Art Center, 1959
Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1960
North American Cultural Institute, Mexico City, 1963
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, 1965
Exhibition "Fifty States" toured Europe: Moravske Museum, Brno, Czechoslovakia; International People's College, Helsinger, Denmark; Galerie Alliance, Copenhagen; vaerksted fur Grafisk Kunst, Hjorring, Denmark; Newton Abbot School of Art, Ikon Gallery, Dartington Hall in Totnes, Centre for American Studies at Exeter University Ball in England, Schiller College, Bonnigheim, Germany.
"Fifty States", official U.S. Bicentennial offering, in Amerika Hausen, Germany.
Visitor's Center, Yosemite National Park, 1985
Joslyn Center for Arts, Torrance, CA, 1987
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, 1990
Stara Radnice, Brno and Strahov Kloster, National Palace, Prague, 1990
Galerie Katinae (Studio of Corot), St. Ceneri le Gerei, France, 1992
Art Expo, NYC, 2000
Dakar Biennale, Senegal, 2002
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
"Drawings of 12 Countries," Chicago Art Institute, 1952
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Lambert Fund Prize, 1952
Brooklyn Print Biennial, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Purchase Award, 1960
International Watercolor Biennial, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1963
Olympic Games, Moscow, American representative, 1980
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, "Enrichments of the Print Cabinet," 1989
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, "Screen Prints 1930s-1960s", 1991
Hotel Cosima, Tokyo, Japan, Installation: Tapestry and Paintings, 1994
Graphic Arts International, Portland Art Museum, OR, Purchase Award, 1997
Japan Contemporary Arts and Crafts, Tokyo Museum, Invited, 1995
National Works on Paper, University of Hawaii, Hilo, 1996
International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland, 1997-98
Boston Print Symposium, Harvard and Boston Museum, Invited, 1997
Museum of Arts Downtown Los Angeles, 1997
Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts, "Lithography After 200 Years," 1998
Mini-Print International, Cadaques, Spain, circulating 1 year, 2002
Egyptian International Print Triennial, Cairo, 2003
Dahlonega International Film Festival, Atlanta, Freedom Award, 2003
Hungarian Multi-Cultural Exhibition, Vizivaros Gallery, Budapest, 2004
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA
British Museum, London
Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Florean Museum, Carbunari, Romania
Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland, OR (complete prints over 600)
Kyoto International Woodprint Association, Japan
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Art Institute, CA
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Panama City, Panama
Museo Emilio Bacardi, Santiago de Cuba
Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San Jose, CR
Museo Nacional de Cuba, La Habana, Cuba
Museum of the International Triennial of Graphic Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
National Museum of American History (over 100 works) Washington, DC
Seattle Art Museum, WA
National Museum of Fine Arts, Cairo, Egypt
Museo Guayasamin, Quito, Ecuador
Select bibliography:
MOSAIC ART TODAY, Larry Argiro, 1961. International Textbooks Company
SERIGRAPHY, Kenneth W. Auvil, 1965. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965.
GRAPHIC DESIGN AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION, John W. Cataldo, 1966.
WATERCOLOR PAINTING, Yar G. Chomicky, 1968. Prentice-Hall, Inc.
THE RUG BOOK, Lillian Quirke, Prentice-Hall, 1979.
BEYOND WEAVING, Chamberlain and Crockett, 1974. Watson-Guptill Publ.
CALIFORNIA ARTISTS COOKBOOK, Blank and Seymour, 1982. Abbeville Press
WINE AUCTION, San Jose Museum of Art, 1985. 45pp. Illus. pg. 15.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIVING ARTISTS IN AMERICA, Constance Franklin,
EROTIC ART BY LIVING ARTISTS, Constance Franklin, 1988. Directors Guild.
VITREOGRAPH LITTLETON STUDIOS, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA, Mar., 1994.
BOHUMIL VRZAL, Point Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic, 2000. 204 pp., color.
Art Protis was artistically developed by famous Czech artists Jiří Trnka and Antonín Kybal, Non woven tapestries by first preparing wool which comes in raw sheets dyed in different colors. The prepared wool is then cut to pieces and placed on top of one another like a collage. The finished layers were then pressed through a machine and stitched together on to a canvas. Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, French artist James Coignard, American Robert Freimark and Australian Erroll B. Davis Amongst many others.
less
- Dimensions
- 59ʺW × 0.5ʺD × 78ʺH
- Styles
- Abstract Expressionism
- Period
- Late 20th Century
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Wool
- Condition
- Good Condition, Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Green
- Condition Notes
- Good. Minor wear. minor toning and piling, typical of this medium. minor possible light staining. Good. Minor wear. minor toning and piling, typical of this medium. minor possible light staining. less
Need more product details?
Shipping Options
Standard Returns & Cancellations
Return Policy - All sales are final 48 hours after delivery, unless otherwise specified in the description of the product.
Extended Return for Trade
- Expands return window for trade members to 14 days (12 days more than our standard return policy)
- Trade member to notify Chairish of intent to return within 14 days of item delivery
- Buyer refunded item cost. Buyer pays return shipping cost
- Does not apply to damages that occur post-delivery
Questions about the item?
Related Collections
- Framed Scarves
- Gemstone Textile Art
- Spanish Colonial Textile Art
- Brutalist Textile Art
- Gesso Textile Art
- Nylon Textile Art
- Jacobean Textile Art
- Rattan Textile Art
- Textile Art in South Bend
- Chartreuse Textile Art
- Gucci Textile Art
- Enamel Textile Art
- Engraving Textile Art
- Napoleon III Textile Art
- Mid-Century Modern Textile Art
- Chinese Textile Art
- Scandinavian Textile Art
- Tapestry
- Japanese Textile Art
- Aubusson Tapestry
- Märta Måås-Fjetterström Textile Art
- Art Glass Textile Art
- Adirondack Textile Art
- Berber Tribes of Morocco Textile Art
- Pablo Picasso Textile Art
Returns
- Does not arrive
- Is broken during transit
- Is entirely different than what you purchased
- Some made-to-order items and a limited selection of other items (noted as non-refundable in the returns and cancellations section of the product description)
-
Orders where Free Local Pickup or Seller Managed Local Delivery were selected:
- Upon inspection, If you decide not to move forward with the purchase, you or your agent must refuse the item at the time of pickup/delivery from the seller
- Once you have taken possession of the item, all sales are final
- International, cross-border returns may require different processes depending on the countries between which the item is shipping to/from, and the buyer is responsible and duties (if applicable, on cross-border orders).
- On approved returns, the buyer is responsible for the full cost of return packing and shipping.
Cancellations
- Prior to shipping or local pickup, buyers may cancel an order for any reason, with the exception of some Made-to-Order items, where supplies have been purchased or work begun on the item.
- Please notify us within 24 hours of purchase if you would like to cancel an order, as prompt cancellation will reduce the likelihood that you will incur return shipping charges.
- Once shipping or pickup has been initiated, the cancellation will be considered a return and you will be responsible for the cost of shipping.
Shipping
Note: Made-to-Order items typically include a lead time or custom delivery window that is added to the delivery time.
- Chairish Express In-Home Delivery
- Chairish Express In-Home deliveries are currently only offered for international cross-border shipments.
- The item will be delivered to your home and placed in the desired room. The delivery service includes unpacking, inspecting, and removing packaging materials; and does not include installation or setting up the item.
- Shipping charges start at $999 and vary based on the size, weight, packaging, and/or the value of the item.
- Deliveries can take anywhere from 6 to 9 weeks to be delivered.
- Chairish Freight Delivery
- Delivered in a crate, to your front door.
- You will need tools and/or equipment to open the crate.
- Shipping charges start at $799 and vary based on the size, weight, packaging, and/or the value of the item.
- Chairish Freight deliveries can take anywhere from 4 to 8 weeks.
- Only available in selected markets.
- Chairish In-Home Delivery
- The item will be delivered to your home and placed in the desired room. The delivery service includes unpacking, inspecting, and removing packaging materials; and does not include installation or setting up the item.
-
Shipping charges start at $149 and based on the size and the distance between pickup and delivery
(for approximate values see table):
Delivery Type Within 50 miles radius Within 1,500 miles radius Over 1,500 miles radius International Cross-Border Shipping Price $149 - $299 $199 - $799 $449 - $899 Over $899 Transit Time 2 to 4 weeks 3 to 6 weeks 4 to 8 weeks 12 to 17 weeks - For some items, the shipping price may vary depending on the size, weight, material and/or value of the item.
- Free Local Pickup
- Local pickup allows customers to inspect an item at the time of pickup and avoid shipping costs.
- Following purchase, a confirmation email is sent to the email address associated with the order, and includes: Pickup Verification & Seller's contact information
- Please contact the seller within 5 days to coordinate pickup
- Once the item has been picked up (by you or your representative) it cannot be returned or refunded.
- Free Shipping
- Free shipping may be offered on select listings.
- Smaller items are typically delivered within 2 weeks of the purchase date, while larger items and furniture may take up to 6 weeks for delivery.
- When an item with Free Shipping is returned, the cost of return shipping fees will be charged to the buyer.
- Parcel Delivery
- Shipment is arranged through recognized carriers such as UPS, FedEx, and DHL.
- Only pieces that can be safely packed in a box or envelope may be shipped via parcel.
- Shipping charges start at $9 — and vary based on the size, weight, packaging and the value of the item.
Delivery Type US Domestic International Cross-Border Shipping Price $9 - $99 $39 - $499 Transit Time 1 to 2 weeks 2 to 4 weeks - Seller Managed Delivery
- Shipping is offered and managed by the seller, through a shipper of the seller’s choice.
- Available on items at the seller’s discretion.
- Seller Managed Local Delivery
- Local curbside delivery is offered and managed by the seller, within a limited geography.
- Following purchase, a confirmation email is sent to the confirmation email address associated with the order, and includes: Pickup Verification Code & Seller’s contact information
- Please contact the seller within 5 days to coordinate delivery.
The Chairish Buyer Guarantee
Make an Offer
Have questions about how offers work? Learn more or .