Up for sale from a recent estate in Honolulu Hawaii this original 1966 New York limited edition 135/225 abstract screen print on plastic that is titled "Nine Squares" and was published by Tanglewood Press, New York and was made for Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967). The condition is described below – for more detail please check the photos. Local pick up possible!!!
Measurements:
Print 12 inches x 12 inches
Frame 18 inches x 21.5 inches
More information about this print:
Alex Bacon, May 29, 2013, edited from an interview with Rosa Esman from Making a Print with Ad Reinhardt
In 1964 I started Tanglewood Press. My first portfolio was mostly Pop, not totally, but it was representative of what was going on in the American art scene in 1964 – 65. But among the other people that I was interested in was Ad Reinhardt. I met him around that time through Bob Kulicke, who was a friend at the time.
I invited Ad to do a piece, and Bob suggested to do it on plexiglas. It wasn’t Ad’s idea. Bob was a framer, who worked with plexiglas, and he thought—and it did sound like a really beautiful idea—to paint a dark form on the back of a piece of plexi, and Ad approved the idea, and made a few studies. He brought them to me and said, “Here. These are the colors. This is it. Go match. Go make. Go do.”
More about the artist:
Born in Buffalo, New York, Ad Reinhardt was an early exponent of Minimal Art and a prominent figure in the New York contemporary art scene. His commitment to painting was purely to the process of painting, and he is best remembered for his all-black, large-scale paintings of the 1960s.
Reinhardt has been described as the first important American painter who was an abstractionist from beginning to end. He was known for his humorous, actually hilarious, swipes at the art world such as his dismissal of Thomas Hart Benton as an 'inconsequential ear of corn' and Jackson Pollock as an 'obscure leaf on the tree of art', etc. Not surprisingly, Reinhardt was a controversial figure. Other examples of his making fun of his contemporary artists can be found in his own semi-facetious chronology of his life which lists "1938 - Listens to neighbor Stuart Davis' loud ragtime jazz records, looks at his loud colored shirts on clotheslines... 1939 - Disagrees with Matta about importance in art of artists rubbing against sweaty people in subway rush hours."
Before the early 1950s the career of Ad Reinhardt was a long process of emptying out elements from his art. His first nearly monochromatic paintings were blue or red; then beginning in 1954 he painted nothing but black paintings. Both his life and work lead up to these great pictures, his "ultimates," as he called them.
As a young man, Ad Reinhardt studied art history at Columbia University where he edited the humor magazine and wrestled. He also attended the National Academy of Design, the American Artists' School, and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University.
In 1937, he joined the American Abstract Artists group and from 1936 to 1941 worked for the WPA on the Federal Art Project in the Easel Division, painting in realist style typical of the 1930s. However, at the same time, he did collages and Cubist paintings with hard-edge, flat planes of color.
In the 1940s, after serving in the U.S. Navy as a photographer from 1944 to 1945, Reinhardt created numerous cartoons satirical of the art world and became associated with Abstract Expressionism, adopting the method of painting all over the canvas in a uniform, monochromatic way. As he got older, his painting became darker and more austere and geometric forms were barely distinguishable from the background.
In addition to painting, Reinhardt was an art educator who conducted classes at Brooklyn College in 1947, the California School of Fine Arts in 1950, University of Wyoming in 1951, Yale University from 1952 to 1953, New York University in 1955, Syracuse University in 1951 and Hunter College in 1960.
Reinhardt maintained an ongoing interest in Asian Art. He was a member of the Asian Art Association and the Chinese Art Society and gave lectures on Asian Art.
He died in New York City on August 30, 1967 at the peak of his career.

Condition: Print and frame are original, there are minor micros scratches on the surface of the screen print (screen print is on the back), the nine squares are difficult to see I took some of the photos with a very strong flash and when you look at the piece you can see the outlines
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