1984 "Opening" Joseph Goldyne Realist Numbered Lithograph

Description

Artist: Joseph Goldyne American (1942 - )
Title: Opening
Year: 1984
Medium: 14-color lithograph printed offset from 8 plates
Image … more Artist: Joseph Goldyne American (1942 - )
Title: Opening
Year: 1984
Medium: 14-color lithograph printed offset from 8 plates
Image Size: 23.75 x 18 inches
Sheet size: 31 x 22.5 inches
Framed size: 34.5 s x 25.5 inches
Signature: Signed in pencil, lower right
Edition Size: 100. This one: 12/100
Annotations: dedicated in pencil in lower left: "for Alice and Bill / from Joseph"
Paper: Handmade
Publisher: Jewish Museum, San Francisco, on the occasion of the Museum's opening, October 1984
Printer: Magnolia Editions

This lithograph is by the noted American artist, Joseph Goldyne. It depicts a Jewish prayer shawl, or tallit. The print is on a beautiful, delicate handmade paper. The print is mounted and floating on a white matboard. It is framed with a simple metal frame and Plexiglas. The print is in excellent condition (not examined out of the frame.) The frame is in very good condition, with a few minute scratches, barely visible on close inspection. Please note that a copy of this print is held in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Joseph R. Goldyne (born 1942), is an American artist, curator, and author. He is known for his monotype prints and drawing and he was one of the co-founders of 3EP Ltd. Press.

Joseph Goldyne was born in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. He majored in art history, and received a B.A. degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and continued his studies and earned a M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF). In 1970, he earned a M.A. degree in Fine Arts from Harvard University. After graduation from Harvard, he moved to Berkeley, California to work at the printmaking studio of artist Jeanne Gantz (1929–1987).

In 1978, Goldyne alongside Mary Margaret "Moo" Anderson, and Paula Kirkeby founded 3EP Ltd. Press of Palo Alto. 3EP Ltd. Press remained in operation until 1984.

The subject of Goldyne's artwork is often personal objects such as articles of clothing, food, and home decor. His work is commonly small scale printmaking with a combination of painting, and/or drawing. He creates series of prints on a single theme, most notably Diary of a Young Girl (Het Achterhuis) (1985); Women 9 (1976); Ten Firsts (1978); and Quartet (1986). Goldyne makes artists books with recurrent collaborations with printmaker Peter Rutledge Koch, including Five Ripe Pears (1996); Oda a la Tipografía | Ode to Typography (1998); and Hard High-Country Poems (2015). less