Alan Feltus, The Couple

Description

This artwork "The Couple" 1981 is an original color etching with aquatint on Wove paper by noted American artist Alan … more This artwork "The Couple" 1981 is an original color etching with aquatint on Wove paper by noted American artist Alan Feltus, b.1943. It is hand signed and numbered 40/60 in pencil by the artist. With the blind stamp of the publisher, Editions Press, San Francisco. The image size is 17 x 23 inches, sheet size is 20.5 x 26 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed. it has a small light skinned area on the back due to a sticker removal, absolutely not visible from the front.

About the artist:

Alan Feltus was born in Washington, D.C. in 1943 and grew up in Manhattan. He studied for one year at the Tyler School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and then Cooper Union in New York (B.F.A. 1966), and Yale University (M.F.A. 1968). He has received many awards for his work that include the Rome Prize Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Grant in Painting, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant in Painting, two Pollock Krasner Foundation Grants in Painting, the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award from Cooper Union, and the Raymond P.R. Neilson Prize from the National Academy of Design.
Alan Feltus has been represented by Forum Gallery since 1976 where he has had more than 12 one-person shows. In addition, he has had one-person private gallery exhibitions in Los Angeles and Washington D.C., as well as Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans, Boca Raton, Wichita, and Atlanta, and has had solo museum exhibitions at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, The Huntington Museum of Art in WV, and the Wichita Art Museum. His work is in public collections that include the Arkansas Art Center, the Bayly Art Museum in Charlottesville, VA, The Corcoran Gallery of art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Huntington Museum of Art in WV, the National Academy of Design in New York, the Oklahoma City Art Museum, and the Wichita Art Museum.

Selected collections:
American Academy in Rome, New York and Rome
American Medical Association, Washington, D.C.
American University, Washington, D.C.
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Bayly Museum, Charlottesville, VA
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Charles County Community College, LaPlata, MD
The Cooper Union, New York, NY
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton OH
Jackye and Curtis Finch Collection, Little Rock, AR
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Howard Tullman Collection, Chicago, IL
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Dr. and Mrs Donald Inness, Jr., Charlottesville, VA
Montana Building, New York, NY
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
The Peace Museum, Chicago, IL
Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Springfield Museum, Springfield, MA
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS less