Larry Thomas

Quapaw

Larry Thomas's "Quapaw" is an original etching, monotype and pastel created in 1985. This impression is printed upon thick, hand-made, laid paper and with full, deckled margins as published by 'Experimental Workshop' at the date stated. It is pencil signed and dated by the artist within the image to the lower right and bears the publisher's blindstamp in the lower left corner. Larry Thomas's "Quapaw", 'an aboriginal tribe', depicts relics that seem to mysteriously murmur of their long vanished civilization. It is an important example of the art created by the American artist, Larry Thomas.

Original Etching, Monotype and Pastel by the Amereican artist, Larry Thomas.

Quapaw

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Title:	Quapaw
Artist:	Thomas, Larry (Memphis, 1943 - Resides, San Francisco)
Date:	1985
Medium:	Original Etching, Monotype and Pastel
Publisher:	Experimental Workshop
Note:	Larry Thomas: A contemporary American artist and administrator, Larry Thomas is the former Dean of Academic Affairs and Interim President of the San Francisco Art Institute. His art has been exhibited throughout the United States and, in 1984, was the subject of a one man exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Today the work of Larry Thomas is included in the collections of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, D.C., the New York Public Library,, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Harvard University, Stanford University Museum, University of California at Berkeley and the Library of Congress.
	In "Quapaw", Larry Thomas has created a unique work of art. By combining etching with monoprinting and pastel drawing each impression has distinct and diversified elements. Another impression of Quapaw, entitled "Quapaw VI", will be found in the collection of the Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. * Their impression contains considerably different colors and tones.
	"Quapaw" refers to the aboriginal tribe that once inhabited the area where the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers connect. The tribe thrived with the nutrient rich soils deposited by the rivers and subsisted by both farming and fishing. An advanced culture, their towns were palisaded and their buildings exhibited complex architecture. Contact with the Euro-Americans, however, brought both epidemics and conflicts which greatly reduced their numbers throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Finally, in 1834, the Quapaw were removed to the north-east corner of Oklahoma were the descendants presently live.
	Larry Thomas's "Quapaw" depicts unearthed relics that seem to mysteriously murmur of their long vanished civilization.
Edition:	No edition size for "Quapaw" is noted, however, as this large etching includes extensive pastel drawing and monoprinting the number of impressions would be quite small. On the verso of this work of art an abbreviated line is written, probably by the printer or publisher: "EXP-LT-OC85-13" "Exp" refers to the publisher (Experimental Workshop) and "LT" to Larry Thomas. The date (1985) is in the next section. The passage ends with "13", which may indicate that this impression is the thirteenth to be printed.
Reference:	* Smithsonian American Art Museum, http://americanart.si.edu.
Size:	23 1/2 X 35 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Buy Now	Price: $795.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon thick, hand-made, laid paper and with full, deckled margins as published by Experimental Workshop in 1985. Pencil signed and dated by the artist within the image to the lower right. Bearing the publisher's blindstamp in the lower left corner as well as the above mentioned notation on the verso. Containing three small scrape marks within the lower margin, else a fine impression and in very good condition throughout. "Quapaw" represents a large and important example of the art of Larry Thomas.
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