Original Signed Collagraph By Printmaker Clare Romano. Red Canyon. 13/150

Description: For sale is a beautiful and original signed Collagraph print by the highly acclaimed printmaker artist Clare Romano (1922 - Artist: Clare Romano (1922 - Medium: Collagraph Title: Red Canyon Signed: Lower right by artist Edition: 13/150 Framed: No. Unframed and loose. Condition: Very good. Light toning to reverse paper. Bright vivid colors on front. Shipping: SHIPS CAREFULLY ROLLED IN A LARGE SHIPPING TUBE. Measurements: 22 1/4” x 29 7/8” Clare Romano (1922 - Although Clare Romano's mature work has evolved through a number of different influences and styles, the one constant is the immediacy of her response to landscape. Any major change in her geographical surroundings, be it only for a matter of a few weeks, is sure to elicit a new body of work. She reacts so deeply to the forms, textures, light patterns and colors of any given landscape that a whole new response is called forth, often resulting in changes in technique as well as in imagery. Romano is best known for her work in calligraphy, essentially a collage technique of printmaking, a versatile form that allows almost unlimited color and textural possibilities. With her husband, John Ross, she wrote The Complete Collagraph, the definitive technical guide to the medium. She is equally adept at planographic, intaglio, relief and stencil methods of printmaking, although, for approximately the last twenty years, the collagraph has been her preferred method. Because she is so closely associated with the medium, her drawings and paintings have not received similar attention. Yet the pastels and paintings share the same characteristics that distinguish the collagraphs. Romano is, above all else, a colorist. Although the colors are always based in the landscape, she brings a personal interpretation, unexpected sonarities and juxtapositions, which is her signature. Her palette always contains a range of pinks, blues and violets whether the scene is winter or summer, northeast or southwest. It is the intensity of these colors and the tones used in conjunction with them that determine the region, the season and the time of day. Surprisingly, she combines the use of this relatively light color range with ability to use black compositionally without throwing off the color balance or injecting a menacing note. No color is more difficult to work with than black, and its successful integration into a composition is a telling indication of an artist's skill. Related to her color sense is Romano's ability to capture the effects of light. This explains the sense of 'thereness' one always feels when looking at her work. In the recent work especially, the patterns and rhythm of light and dark have achieved equal prominence with the use of color. A major turning point in Romano's work was occasioned by her first trip to the Grand Canyon in 1975. She responded not only to the colors of the landscape and to intensity of the light, but also to the dramatic monolithic formation of the canyons. Her simplification and abstraction of these overwhelming shapes gave a new dimension of sparseness and strength to her work. Her reaction to the landscape also brought about contextual changes in her collagraphs. For the first time, she started making bleed prints - all previous prints had had margins - because she felt that any borders would belie and diminish the majesty, the endless vista, of the subject she was portraying.

Price: 450 USD

Location: Kingston, New York

End Time: 2024-03-19T19:10:37.000Z

Shipping Cost: 10.35 USD