7 Objects in a box
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Seven Objects in a Box
Seven Objects in a Box

Portfolio

Seven Objects in a Box

1966
Edition of 75 with 24 artist's proofs
Wooden box with stenciled paint artist names and titles, containing multiples by seven artists.
Published by Tanglewood Press Inc., New York

Contents include:

Tom Wesselmann
Great American Nude
vacuum formed plastic
7 1/2 x 7 x 1 1/3 inches
With the Artist’s incised signature, date and numbered on the reverse

George Segal
Chicken
cast acrylic and fiberglass
19 1/2 x 13 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches
Signed & numbered in black felt-tip pen on the inside bottom

Allan D'Arcangelo
Side-View Mirror
screenprint on plexiglass set into chrome side-view mirror mounted on acrylic base
7 1/2 x 4 x 4 inches
Signed and numbered on the base

Andy Warhol
Kiss
Screenprint on plexiglass.
12 1/2 x 8 inches
Signature embossed and incised on plexiglass mount

Jim Dine
Rainbow Faucet
sand-cast aluminum, dipped in acrylic paint
2 5/8 x 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches
Signed, dated and numbered on the base

Claes Oldenburg
Baked Potato
cast resin with acrylic paint and porcelain plate
4 1/8 x 4 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches (potato)
1 3/16 x 10 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches (plate)
Initialed and numbered in black paint on the underside of the potato

Roy Lichtenstein
Sunrise
baked enamel in colors, on metal plaque, signed in ink on the verso
8 1/2 x 11 x 1 inches
Signed and numbered in ink on the verso.

Selected Museum Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Tanglewood Press Inc. was an art publishing company founded by Rosa Esman, and published thirteen limited-edition portfolios by a number of artists from 1965 to 1991. Each Individually Numbered, Signed and Dated "2000" by Seven Objects in a Box in Felt Pen, bottom

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With encouragement from Doris Freedman and Hans Kleinschmidt, Esman established Tanglewood Press Inc. in 1965 as a publisher of artists' portfolios.

TANGLEWOOD PRESS

In 1957, Rosa Esman opened Tanglewood Gallery in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, showing artwork by artist-friends, utilizing the Museum of Modern Art lending service, and borrowing from the Downtown Gallery. The Tanglewood Gallery exhibited artists Milton Avery, Karl Schrag, Tom Wesselman, Alexander Calder, George Morrison, Robert Indiana, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Mervin Jules, and George L. K. Morris, among others.

Views on Art host, Ruth Bowman, speaks with Rosa Esman of Tanglewood Press

With encouragement from Doris Freedman and Hans Kleinschmidt, Esman established Tanglewood Press Inc. in 1965 as a publisher of artists' portfolios. The first publication, New York Ten (1965), included artwork by Tom Wesselmann, George Segal, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Mon Levinson, Robert Kulicke, Nicholas Krushenick, Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Dine, and Richard Anuszkiewicz. Later publications included artwork by Andy Warhol, Mary Bauermeister, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Motherwell, Sol LeWitt, Jim Dine, and many others. The portfolio, "Ten Landscapes-Roy Lichtenstein (1967), was published in collaboration with Abrams Original Editions. Esman was contracted to work at Abrams Original Editions for a short period of time in the late 1970s. Esman and her Tanglewood Press Inc. were featured in the exhibition, The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the sixties (1997-2000), University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California.

Commissioned and published by Tanglewood Press founder Rosa Esman, fabricated (with the exception of Sunrise) by Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, and produced in an edition of 75, these seven objects collectively embody all the basic tenets of the Pop movement. While ready-made materials like restaurant dishes and automobile mirrors have been utilized in Claes Oldenburg’s Baked Potato and Allan D’Arcangelo’s Side-View Mirror, other pieces, such as George Segal’s Chicken and Tom Wesselmann’s Little Nude, are results of post-War technology developments in the field of plastic reproduction. More broadly, this project shifts the traditional focus of editions away from printing and toward casting, with only three printed—versus four cast—objects, thus allowing visual artists from other mediums to participate in the Pop Art trend of multiples.

 

 

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