Untitled
9 x 12 inchesUntitled, 1973
paper: 9 x 12 inches
Edition of 300
Numbered by the Artist in pencil lower left recto
Signed "Di Suvero" in red ink lower right
Stamped in black on verso "© Copyright 1973 By Mark Di Suvero Printed At Styria Studio"
Printer Styria Studio Publisher Experiments in Art & Technology
Floated with UV plexiglass in a black wood frame
This screenprint has been safely stored since it was published in 1973.
Museum Collections
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Born in 1931, American artist Mark Di Suvero created a strikingly original body of work in sculpture and drawing that was critically acclaimed and actively collected during the 1960s and seventies. His innovative use of unconventional materials including saw blades or metal tubing was never arbitrary; she placed these surprising objects in contrast with scattered soot or organic cloth to juxtapose industrial and natural materials.
MARK DI SUVERO
Mark di Suvero graduated from UC Berkeley in 1957, where he studied art and philosophy. Afterwards, he moved to New York City. FIrst living in the East Village, then moving further downtown, to 195 Front Street, where his neighbors included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Jasper Johnsand Robert Rauschenberg.
Like Indiana and Rauschenberg, di Suvero assembled his early sculptures from discarded material he found while walking around the city. Working with wooden beams, planks, rope, chainsand metal, he built dynamic sculptures that matched the works of the Abstract Expressionists in dynamism and size. In 1960, he showed three of these large sculptures at his debut exhibition of Richard Bellamy’s Green Gallery. The works were immediately praised by critics and other artistsand the show launched di Suvero as a major sculptor.
Mark di Suvero had his first major retrospective in 1975 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Lynden-Bradley Sculpture Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
