Mid 20th Century "Journey" Surrealist Abstract Colorgraph by Clare Romano

Description

"Journey" matted limited edition collagraph. This not framed. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist in pencil. Mat Size: … more "Journey" matted limited edition collagraph. This not framed. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist in pencil. Mat Size: 26" x 31". Edition Number: 9/70. Circa 1968. Conditions: Excellent. A few minor marks around the signature (see signature photo). Certificate of Authenticity with appraisal is included. Make an offer!

BIO:

Trained as a painter at Cooper Union, Clare Romano made her first prints—lithographs—at Robert Blackburn’s Creative Lithographic Workshop in 1949. Her early urban subjects were replaced by landscapes when she left New York City for New Jersey, Truro, and Provincetown, where she and her family lived and spent their summers. In 1958, while in Italy on a Fulbright Grant, she began to use cardboard and paper to build her relief plates, and during a residence in Yugoslavia with the U.S. Information Agency in 1965–66, she perfected the collagraph technique, whereby she collaged materials (cardboard, cloth, found objects) onto the printing plate with a thick gesso or built up form with modeling paste. Romano has introduced generations of students to all aspects of printmaking as a professor at the New School, Pratt Graphics Center, and Pratt Institute, and as co-author with her husband, John Ross, of several important printmaking handbooks. With over fifty one-woman exhibitions to her credit, she is represented in many permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Library of Congress and Smithsonian Institute. less