Jacob Landau

Earth Mother

Jacob Landau's original lithograph, Earth Mother is printed upon 'BFK Rives' watermarked paper and with full margins as published in New York by the Associated American Artists in the limited edition of two hundred and fifty impressions in 1969. This particular impression is signed, titled and numbered by the artist in pencil along the lower margin and hails from the collection of Roger Trlak. Earth Mother is a fine, original example of the lithographic art creeated by the American artist, Jacob Landau.

Earth Mother

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Title:	Earth Mother
Artist:	Landau, Jacob (Philadelphia, 1917 - Roosevelt, New Jersey, 2001)
Date:	1969
Medium:	Original Lithograph
Publisher:	Associated American Artists, New York
Note:	Jacob Landau: A twentieth century painter, lithographer, illustrator and designer, Jacob Landau first served with the American Army (1943-46) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art, the New School for Social Research, New York (1947-48), and at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris (1949-52). He began his career as a magazine illustrator and became the editor of At Ease. By 1960 Landau had established himself as a major lithographic artist and created many works in this medium for the Associated American Artists, the Pratt Graphic Art Center and the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. Jacob Landau also taught at the Philadelphia Museum Art School and served as a director of the design department at the Pratt Institute.
	Jacob Landau's art received many prestigious awards and grants, such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and Guggenheim and Tamarind fellowships. Institutions that today include his lithographs in their permanent collections are The Library of Congress, Washington, DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
	Earth Mother was commissioned by the Associated American Artists of New York in 1969 in a sole limited edition of 250 impressions. Since its creation in the mid 1930's the Associated American Artists commissioned original graphic art from such great masters as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and others. It published etchings and lithographs of no less stature during the 1960's and 1970's as contributing artists from around the world included Lily Harmon, Jacob Landau, W. B. Eberhard Eggers, Peter Klitsch, Robert Bero, David Shapiro, Jack Levine, Chaim Koppelman, Joseph Margulies, James Kearns, Gregory Masurovsky, Jack Coughlin and Sidney Chafetz. Jacob Landau created a number of fine lithographs for this publisher at this time.
Provenance:	From the collection of Roger Trlak and bearing his inventory number, 'T-1115', on the verso. Roger Trlak (1934-1975) established the commercial art company of Martin-Trlak in Chicago. In 1972 he also opened the RST Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona where he exhibited not only his own large collection of mostly contemporary art but also held important exhibitions of many modern artists. These Included such major American and international printmakers as Joseph Hirsch, Luigi Lucioni, Jacob Landau, Birgit Skiold and Paul Wunderlich. Among Trlak's closest friends in the arts community were Raphael Soyer, Ivan Albright and Hans Burkhardt. Contemporary prints and paintings were constantly exhibited at the RST Gallery until it was closed in 1975 due to Trlak's untimely death.
Edition:	Limited edition of two hundred and fifty impressions, numbered 194/250.
Size:	10 1/4 X 7 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon 'BFK Rives' watermarked paper and with full margins as published in New York by the Associated American Artists. Signed, titled and numbered, '194/250', by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. A finely printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. Earth Mother represents a prime, original example of the famous American art of Jacob Landau.
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