| Title: |
Demolition |
| Artist: |
Smith, Lawrence Beall (Washington, D. C., 1909 - Cross River, New York, 1993) |
| Date: |
1985 |
| Medium: |
Original Lithograph |
| Edition: |
Limited edition of one hundred impressions, numbered 75/100. |
| Note: |
Lawrence Beall Smith: A premier American painter,
sculptor, lithographer and illustrator of the twentieth century, Lawrence
Beall Smith studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University
of Chicago (PH.D., 1931) as well as under Harold Zimmerman and Charles
Hopkinson, in Boston. Lawrence Beall Smith began exhibiting his art in 1935 and gained
a strong national reputation by 1941 when a one-man exhibition of his
art was launched at the Whitney Museum in New York. During World War II
he created posters for the war effort and was an artist for the D-Day
landings in Normandy. Commissioned by the Abbott Laboratories in 1944,
Lawrence Beall-Smith also served as a war correspondent covering the activities
of the Medical Corps in Europe. Throughout the following years, Lawrence Beall Smith's art figured
prominently in most major exhibitions, including those of the prestigious
National Academy. |
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Besides his paintings and sculptures in stone, Lawrence
Beall Smith was also a highly gifted lithographic artist and illustrator.
In this latter category, he illustrated such fine books as Robin Hood
(1952), The History of Tom Jones; A Foundling (1964), Oliver Twist (1956),
and many other well-known books. Today examples of his original lithographs,
paintings and sculpture are included in the permanent collections of such
major galleries as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Fogg
Art Museum, Cambridge, the University of Chicago, and the Library of Congress,
Washington, DC. |
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Children and figure studies are a major theme in Lawrence
Beall Smith's lithographic art. From 1940 onwards he was commissioned
many times by the Associated American Artists of New York for his delightful
lithographs upon these and other subjects. |
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Demolition was probably commissioned by the Associated
American Artists of New York in a sole limited edition of 100 impressions.
Since its creation in the mid 1930's the Associated American Artists published
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,1970's and 1980'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. Lawrence Beall Smith was one of the A.A.A.
s most active artists and contributed his sought after lithographs for
over four decades. |
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Demolition is one of Lawrence Beall Smith's last
great works of lithographic art. With its brilliant contrasts of light
and shade it depicts an African American worker atop a beautiful, stone
arch. With hammer in hand he is about to destroy this beautiful edifice,
perhaps to make way for a parking lot or some other modern urban monstrosity.
The resigned look upon his face beautifully captures the emotion of the
moment. |
| Size: |
14 X 7 5/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
| Buy Now |
Price: $495.00 US |
| Condition: |
Printed upon white pure rag paper with the 'BFK Rives France'
watermark and with full, deckled margins as published in New York in the
limited edition of 100 signed impressions. Signed, titled, dated and numbered,
'75/100' by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. A finely printed
impression and in excellent condition throughout. Demolition represents
a prime, original example of the famous lithographic art of Lawrence Beall
Smith. |
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