50's Dean Meeker Gouache On Illustration Board
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This 1950's gouache painting on illustration board is by internationally renowned Wisconsin printmaker and sculptor Dean Jackson Meeker (1920-2002). It depicts a nightscene of ghoulish figures on fire with a sign for a wax museum above them. It measures 16.5" tall X 18.5" across. It is unsigned and untitled, and comes from archive. Meeker started as a sculptor but quickly became influential and innovative printmaker. He was the first printmaker to overprint silkscreens with polymer intaglio, giving his works a 3 Dimensional quality. He was the co-inventor of the Meeker-McFee motorized etching press. He taught Silkscreening at University of Wisconsin Madison for 46 years. He was a 1959 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. His Sculptures, paintings and prints are in over 100 important world collections to include New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery in Washington DC, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, just to name a few.
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50's Dean Meeker Gouache On Illustration Board
Estimate $400 - $600
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