Vintage Abstract -- Lo Deseo, "I Wish It" by Kate Delos

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Exceptional and substantial monotype on paper titled "Lo Deseo" (I wish it) by Bay area artist Kate Delos (Mexican/American, b-1945). … more Exceptional and substantial monotype on paper titled "Lo Deseo" (I wish it) by Bay area artist Kate Delos (Mexican/American, b-1945). One of One, signed on bottom "Lo Deseo 1983 Delos" and "Kate Delos 1983 Monotype on BLK Grey". Also has the list of colors used on the piece on verso. Image 22"W x 32"H. Framed: Maple; 42"H x 32W" x 1.75"D

Kate Delos is a Bay area painter, print maker and artistic collaborator. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University and currently teaches painting, drawing and printmaking at Solano Community College, where she was named a distinguished faculty member in 2000.
The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. "Monotype is a print medium whose simple concept, spontaneous process, and elegant result attract both artists and collectors. The earliest monotypes date from the 1640s, when Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione printed compositions he drew into ink spread on un-incised metal plates. Since then, artists have periodically rediscovered the technique for themselves. Degas's prolific experiments with monotype at the end of the nineteenth century led to some of the most beautiful examples ever. Indeed, their exhibition in 1968 at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a major factor in the recent surge of interest in the medium by artists and art historians. This book presents the first historical survey of monotypes. Curators from the departments of prints, drawings, and photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, discuss and illustrate 106 unique prints by forty-two artists ranging from Rembrandt and Castiglione, Matisse and Picasso, Prendergast and Chase, to such diverse contemporary figures as Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Robert Motherwell, and Richard Diebenkorn.

An essay by art historian Eugenia Parry Janis explains how the mid-nineteenth-century etching revival fostered a dramatic use of creatively inked etching plates and thus a renewed interest in monotypes. Finally, artist Michael Mazur describes the methods of monotyping as well as the exhilarations and frustrations it can produce for the printmaker. Working with special paper, inks and paints, multiple plates, and images altered in sequence, artists have expanded a personal and experimental medium into a brilliant means of exploring their ideas." From: The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century.The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1980).
Kate Delos Exhibited: The Bay Area Exhibition 1986 Show
Included in;
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History
Published Books:
Simulacra. Delos/Rossenwasser, Monotypes & Poetry, Kelsey St. Press, 1986.
aviary. Limestone Press, 1988.
ISLE. Delos/Rosenwater, Kelsey St. Press, 1992.

Collections:
The Oakland Museum
Mills College Art Gallery and Library
Triton Museum of Art
Berkeley Art Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
New York Public Library – Rare and Unusual Books
Stanford University Museum and Library
St. Louis Museum of Art
Orange County Museum
University of Washington, Souza Library
Achenbach Collection of Graphic Art – Legion of Honor
Brown University
Claremont College Library
University of San Francisco Rare Books Collection
Columbia University Library
Scripps College
National Museum of Women Artists less