Postmodern Dick Seeger Signed Abstract Acrylic Painting C.1985

Description

Designer/Maker: Dick Seeger – An innovative artist, craftsman and gallerist who settled in Scottsdale, Arizona in the late 1950s. Seeger’s … more Designer/Maker: Dick Seeger – An innovative artist, craftsman and gallerist who settled in Scottsdale, Arizona in the late 1950s. Seeger’s innovative approach, his use of color and composition helped him become an important figure in Scottsdale’s mid-century art and architecture community.

He is listed in the recent Museum of Arts and design publication “Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design,” which also includes an illustration of his acrylic work.

Super - rare piece!

Provenance:
Purchased from the artist's home in Scottsdale, Arizona.
We have treasured it for many years and decided to share its joy with the public.
This is the first time is has ever been listed for sale.

It measures 72" x 72" x 1 3/4" thick.

Mr Seeger also built the frame and stretcher.

Biography: (From New Times) (Original article included with purchase)
“The home of 81-year-old artist Dick Seeger doesn't have a lot of curb appeal. Located in a quiet, upscale neighborhood of North Scottsdale, it certainly doesn't look like it's the location of anything particularly remarkable. … Welcome to The Magical Mystery Spiritual Experience. That's what Dick Seeger has dubbed the constantly transmuting, living-art environment he's created, and continually reconfigures … Open the front doors to Dick Seeger's home/personal museum — a 5,000-square-foot residence with soaring ceilings — and you feel as though you've been sucked into a time capsule and dumped somewhere between 19th-century colonial Africa and swinging '60s America, in all its psychedelic and Age of Aquarius glory.

Private 'Shagadelic' Scottsdale Art Collection Goes Public - 2007
A hodgepodge of baubles, hand carved boxes, beaded curtains worthy of Austin Powers' "Shagadelic" bachelor pad share space with priceless paintings and rare objets d'art in Dick Seeger's fancifully hip and eclectic art collection. The 78-year old collector and former professional photographer says he is ready to part with his collection if the the right buyer comes along.

Dick Seeger recently passed away. I was fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to spend many days in his home and his labyrinth in his back yard.



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