Description: [JOHN ROSS, COLLAGRAPH, ABSTRACT] 'HOMAGE TO KROPA' Offered here is an original framed John Ross Collagraph (a printmaking process which involves inking a rigid substrate and then making prints from the construction) entitled 'Homage to Kropa' the print measures about 24 in x 30 in. within a frame 28 in x 35.5 in. The print is signed by Ross and titled with a limitation indicated at '3/50'. On the back of the piece is the gallery tag for 'Gallery Graphics' in Upper Montclair, NJ. The name of the piece is misspelled 'Krupa' on the tag and the sale price is showing '$80.00'. We reserve the right to remove the glass from the frame before shipping unless picked up locally in Southern California. John Ross (1921 – 2017), painter, printmaker, author, and educator, was born in New York City on September 25, 1921. Ross studied at Cooper Union School of Art in New York from 1939 to 1948 with Morris Kantor and Will Barnet, and received his Bachelor in Fine Arts degree. He attended Parson School of Design in New York in 1939, and, in 1949 Ross studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Fontainebleau, France. He returned to New York in 1950, where he furthered his art studies at the New School for Social Research under Antonio Frasconi and Louis Schanker, and at Columbia University.John Ross was a Professor of studio art at Manhattanville College in Purchase New York between 1964 and 1986. He designed the BFA program and served as chair of the art department from 1966 to 1972. Ross also taught printmaking at the New School University in New York City for over fifty years.He produced nineteen artist's books which were published by The High Tide Press, as well as The Complete Collagraph (1980), The Complete Screen Print and Lithograph (1974), The Complete Relief Print (1974), The Complete New Techniques in Printmaking (1974) The Complete Intaglio Print (1974) and co-authored with Clare Romano, The Complete Printmaker (1972).Ross was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists and served as president of the organization. He was also elected Academician in the National Academy of Design in 1983. He received numerous accolades for his work, which included the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant for Printmaking in 1954; MacDowell Colony Fellowships in 1977, 1976, 1978, 1982, and 1987; the National Arts Club Printmaking Award in 1995, the Shatalov Prize from the National Academy of Design in 2001; and the Society of American Graphic Artists Award in 2005. Ross has had over sixty one-man shows and is represented in the permanent collections of the Boston Public Library, Cincinnati Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morris Museum, National Academy of Design, New Jersey State Museum, New York Public Library, Newark Museum, Newark Public Library, Oklahoma Arts Institute, Philadelphia Public Library, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, and in many university and college collections. Please email any questions -
Price: 599.99 USD
Location: Beverly Hills, California
End Time: 2024-02-26T18:33:19.000Z
Shipping Cost: 60 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Date of Creation: 1950-1969
Features: Framed
