Description: Artist: LENA GURR (American, 1897 - 1992) Title: "Spring Fantasia" - 1951 - Optical / OpticiansMedium: Original Lithograph on colored laid paperSignature: Signed in the plateEdition: Limited Edition of 2000, not individually numberedSize: About 12 x 9 inchesPrinter: Artist Equity Funds, Inc.Publisher: Artist Equity AssociationNotes: Part of the Improvisations Portfolio (for the Spring Fantasia Masquerade Ball in New York) published by the Artist Equity Association. The portfolio consisted of advertisements for local New York City businesses where each advertisement was an original lithograph: "Each page was designed by the artist directly on the litho plate, thus making this a collection of original lithographs."This Original Lithograph was produced for an annual art event in the 1950's for local businesses and major corporations largely based in New York. Historically important for corporate archivists, these are extremely rare to locate and are virtually unseen individually. The original lithographs were produced in only one edition, and included just 2,000. These lithographs are perhaps the most unique, rare, important advertising collectibles that exist for businesses and corporations.About the Artist: Lena Gurr (1897–1992), was an American artist who made paintings, prints, and drawings showing, as one critic said, "the joys and sorrows of everyday life." Another critic noted that her still lifes, city scenes, and depictions of vacation locales were imbued with "quiet humor," while her portrayal of slum-dwellers and the victims of warfare revealed a "ready sympathy" for victims of social injustice at home and of warfare abroad. Gurr's work was shown at exhibitions of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Brooklyn Society of Artists, the New York Society of Women Artists, and the A.C.A. Gallery. She also showed at the World's Fair (1939), the Metropolitan Museum (1942), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1944), the Artists League of America (1945), the National Academy of Design (1946), the Serigraph Society Galleries (1947), and the American Federation of Arts (1951).
Price: 99.95 USD
Location: Indio, California
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Artist: LENA GURR (American, 1897 - 1992)
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Type: Print
Signed By: LENA GURR (American, 1897 - 1992)
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Signed: Yes
Theme: Advertising
Features: Limited Edition
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Production Technique: Lithography
Subject: Adventure Time, Masquerade, Advertizing
