Print of the Day!! Mon, Oct. 28, 2024, is by New Mexico printmaker Clinton Adams (1918-2002). "Figure in Green", 5 color lithograph, 7/10, 1969.

Print of the Day!! Monday, October 28, 2024, is by New Mexico printmaker Clinton Adams (1918-2002). ?

"Figure in Green" is a lithograph, printed with five colors, done in 1969. The image measures 18 x 20". This impression is pencil signed, dated, and editioned "7/10"? beneath the image. It was printed at Tamarind (chop, lower left) by the artist and Tamarind master printer Jean Milant (chop, lower right) on a sheet of antique-white "Copperplate Deluxe" paper that measures 21-3/4 x 24-1/8". References for this image include Conway 106, Tamarind 2525 and Adams 6987. ?

This scarce color lithograph by printmaker and Tamarind Institute co-founder Clinton Adams is available from the gallery for $600.00.

"Figure in Green" is illustrated as figure 72 in Jules Heller's 'Printmaking Today', page 71. Heller notes about this image: "Figure 72 is completely traditional in its execution, having been made entirely with lithographic crayon... A distant descendant of Cubism, with Surrealistic affinities, Adams created this as one of a series concerned with ambiguous references to the female nude within an abstract context. The atmospheric depth of the composition reflects his interest in a metamorphic relationship that links the landscape of the American Southwest to the forms of the figure."

Adams commented to Robert P. Conway regarding this image for the catalogue raisonné:

"This is a very close relative of 'Figure in Yellow'. The only difference between the two prints is color, and it seems to me that here the green sits much better against this olive than the yellow did on the browns in the other print. This is the stronger of the two."

This image was done using four aluminum plates and one stone, inked sequentially in gray, again in gray, in green, in violet-blue and again in green.

Clinton Adams, artist, author, teacher, scholar, and lecturer, was born in Glendale, California on December 11, 1918. He earned a B.A. in education and a M.A. in 1942 from the University of California Los Angeles and began teaching there in 1946. He also taught at the Otis Art Institute and went on to head the art departments at both the University of Kentucky and the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Adams was introduced to Master Printer?Lynton Kistler in 1948 and began producing lithographs in his commercial print shop in Los Angeles. In 1959, he joined forces with artist June Wayne and the Tamarind Lithography Workshop was founded in Los Angeles in 1960 with Adams as associate director. He moved to Albuquerque in 1961 after accepting the position as dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico. Tamarind moved to Albuquerque in 1970 and Adams became the Institute's director—a position he held for fifteen years. He was very active as a writer, authoring numerous articles and books on lithography, including The Tamarind Book of Lithography: Art & Techniques, American Lithographers 1900-1960, and Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990 published in 1991.

Clinton Adams died in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 13, 2002.

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