1981 "Girl With Raven Hair" Hand Signed Lithograph by Eyvind Earle

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"Girl With Raven Hair" unframed limited edition lithograph on paper by American artist Eyvind Earle. Hand signed and numbered by … Read more "Girl With Raven Hair" unframed limited edition lithograph on paper by American artist Eyvind Earle. Hand signed and numbered by the artist in pencil. Paper Size: 37" x 25". Edition Number: 171/260. Year: 1981. Condition is Excellent. 100 percent guarantee of authenticity. Certificate of Authenticity is included (Publisher's CoA). Make an offer!

BIO:

Eyvind Earle (American, 1916-2000) created images that haunt us, and force us to look for the same magic in life itself. This fusion of realism with design removes his landscapes to a supernatural realm. Large geometric forms predominate; trees pressed flat against the foreground, angular barns, and the receding curves of the horizon. On these forms Earle imposes detail that is both realistic and decorative, hinting here of the Flemish Masters, there of the Japanese printmaker - scored bark, weathered planks, the tracery of shadows. When invited to describe his creative process more fully, Earle speaks in mystical terms. A student of Yoga since the age of 16, he began work for many years by meditating and then rushing to canvas to paint beautiful scenes which appeared to him. "I've found," says Earle "that the wonderful thing about screen printing is the inventiveness you can exercise with it. You can decide to do a thousand things as you print."

A designer, painter and illustrator, Eyvind Earle is noted for backgrounds he created for Disney classic films such as Sleeping Beauty and Lady and the Tramp. He also designed popular greeting cards that utilized more than 500 of his paintings. In 1961, he established his own animation company, and continuously painted landscapes in oil and acrylic, using acrylic before 1971 and oil after that. His most famous paintings are of California mountains and valleys of western Canada. His landscapes are remarkable for their suggestion of distances, land masses and weather moods.

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Lithograph definition: Lithos is Greek for "stone", and a stone surface has traditionally been involved in lithography, though a metal plate may take its place today. Lithography uses simple chemical processes to create an image. For instance, the positive part of an image is a water-repelling ("hydrophobic") substance, while the negative image would be water-retaining ("hydrophilic"). Thus, when the plate is introduced to a compatible printing ink and water mixture, the ink will adhere to the positive image and the water will clean the negative image.

In the 1890s, color lithography gained success in part by the emergence of Jules Chéret, known as the father of the modern poster, whose work went on to inspire a new generation of poster designers and painters, most notably Toulouse-Lautrec, and former student of Chéret, Georges de Feure. By 1900 the medium in both color and monotone was an accepted part of printmaking.

During the 20th century, a group of artists, including Braque, Calder, Chagall, Dufy, Léger, Matisse, Miró, and Picasso, rediscovered the largely undeveloped artform of lithography thanks to the Mourlot Studios, also known as Atelier Mourlot, a Parisian printshop founded in 1852 by the Mourlot family. The Atelier Mourlot originally specialized in the printing of wallpaper; but it was transformed when the founder's grandson, Fernand Mourlot, invited a number of 20th-century artists to explore the complexities of fine art printing. Mourlot encouraged the painters to work directly on lithographic stones in order to create original artworks that could then be executed under the direction of master printers in small editions. The combination of modern artist and master printer resulted in lithographs that were used as posters to promote the artists' work. See less