MEL SILVERMAN Processione Vintage Limited Edition Lithograph, signed ‘Mel Silverman 1962’ in lower right, numbered ‘23/25’ and inscribed ‘Processione’ in lower left, subject shows abstract expressionist procession, in frame measures approx 28 x 40 3/4 in., red and brown carved wood frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed, not examined out of frame. Printmaker, painter, illustrator, and writer Melvin "Mel" Frank Silverman was born in Denver, Colorado on January 1, 1931, where he went to North High School. An outstanding baseball pitcher, he was offered a minor league contract with the Yankees organization which he did not take. He attended and received his B.F.A. and B.A.E. from the Art Institute of Chicago, marrying anthropologist Sydel Finfer in 1953 while still a student. Following his graduation in 1955 he was granted a fellowship by the AIC to travel to Europe for a year, where he continued his studies independently and likely created several of his cityscape woodcuts. On his return he held his first solo exhibitions at the Salpeter Gallery in New York. Subsequent exhibitions took place throughout the U.S. and in Israel. He was known as much for his illustrations for children's books as he was for his original woodcuts, paintings, and more. Mel Silverman died from cancer at the age of 35 on September 16, 1966 in New York.Silverman's work is included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Washington Public Library; the University of Minnesota; the Butler Institute of American Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Allentown Museum, PA; the University of Indiana; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, MN; Denver Public Schools Collection; and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, among others. (Annexgalleries.com).Mel silverman Processione vintage limited edition lithograph, signed lithograph, numbered lithograph, limited edition lithograph, mel silverman lithograph, American modernism, abstract expressionism, abstract art, expressionist art, modern art, American artist, vintage art, mel silverman signed lithograph, mel silverman art, midcentury modern art 7