Seong Moy - Nassau County

Nassau County #1

Seong Moy's original woodcut, "Nassau County #1" is printed in color upon a large sheet of rice paper and with full margins as published in New York in the limited edition of fifty five impressions in 1961. This impression is signed, numbered, dated and titled by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. "Nassau County #1" is a fine, original example of the woodcut art created by the Chinese / American artist, Seong Moy.

Original Colour Woodcut on Three Blocks by the Chinese/American artist, Seong Moy.

Nassau County #1

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01-		Nassau County #1 by the Chinese / American artist, Seong Moy.	Original Colour Woodcut on Three Blocks	1961	Signed, dated and titled by Seong Moy in pencil along the lower margin. Limited edition of 55 signed impressions, numbered '11/55'.	Sold
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Artist:	Nassau County #1
Artist:	Moy, Seong (Canton, China, 1921 - Lives, New York)
Date:	1961
Medium:	Original Colour Woodcut on Three Blocks
Edition:	Limited Edition of fifty five impressions, numbered 11/55..
Note:	Seong Moy: Along with Adja Yunkers, Misch Kohn and Leonard Baskin, Seong Moy is among the most important American woodcut artists of modern times. At the age of ten, Moy left China to live with relatives in St. Paul, Minnesota. He studied art there under Cameron Booth at the St. Paul School of Art from 1936 to 1940. Moy was then inducted into the United States Air force and served in Yunan Province of the China-Burma Theatre for the following three years. His formal art education was completed under the famous abstract Expressionist, Hans Hoffman, at the Atelier 17, New York City (1948-1950).
	From his earliest graphic art, Moy displayed strong ties to Chinese methods of drawing and calligraphy. James Watrous writes, "Earlier, from 1948 to 1950, Moy had tasted experimental methods of Intaglio printmaking at Atelier 17, ... Nonetheless, Moy's reputation rested on colour woodcuts in which dynamic compositions were laced together with brush-like draftsmanship that seemed both calligraphic and painterly. Moy recalled that 'in China grade school, you draw with brush and pencil and style is a way of thinking.'" ( James Watrous, A Century of American Printmaking, 1880-1980, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, p. 181.)
	Today, Seong Moy's influential woodcuts are found in the following collections; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Art Museum of Tel Aviv, Israel, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Library of Congress, Washington, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
	Nassau Country #1 dates from 1961 and represents one of Seong Moy's finest original woodcuts printed in colours. In three joined woodcuts blocks, Moy layered green and black printings upon this large vertical surface in a calligraphic composition that immediately captures both the eye and our imaginations. After all, 'style is a way of thinking.
Size:	34 3/4 X 11 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Printed upon a large sheet of rice paper and with full margins as published in New York in the limited edition of 55 signed impressions in 1961. Numbered '11/55' and signed, dated and titled by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. Apart from very slight creasing, this original woodcut is in excellent condition throughout and stands as a prime example of the famous woodcut art of Seong Moy.
Price:	Sold - The price is no longer available.
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