Print of the Day!! Sat, May 20, 2023 is by Edmond Casarella (1920-1996): "Sea Wall", color paper relief, 1959, 3/18, $2,500.00.

Print of the Day!! Saturday, May 20, 2023 is by American AbEx printmaker Edmond Casarella (1920-1996).

9 DAYS REMAIN for our current gallery exhibition: "Abstract Expressionism in Northern California 1945-1964. Works on paper from the estate of San Francisco collector Marian Schell Skiles." March 18 through May 29, 2023: This work is not part of the exhibition.

"Sea Wall" is a relief print, a color paper relief, done in 1959.? The image measures 16-5/8 x 28-1/2 inches and is pencil signed, titled, dated and editioned "3/18" by the artist in the lower margin. This paper relief was printed by the artist in a variant edition of 18 impressions on soft, cream wove paper that measures 21 x 32 inches.

This scarce color relief by American Abstract Expressionist printmaker Edmond Casarella is available from the gallery for $2,500.00.

Shipping costs will be discussed. California residents will have sales tax added. Out of state residents may be responsible for use tax, depending on state law. A detailed condition report is available upon request.

"Sea Wall" is less linear than many of the artist's gestural prints, in this dense composition he used layered, organic shapes, evoking a three-dimensional wall, a bas relief shaped by the elements.

Edmond Casarella was an early practitioner of the paper relief print, such as this composition, starting in 1948. Using shapes cut from chipboard and illustration board he built up the surface of a plate, which was printed by hand as a relief. By peeling, sanding, scraping and carving the cardboard elements he is able to achieve a composition that looks both spontaneous and gestural.

A description of this technique can be found on page 154 of "The Stamp of Impulse - Abstract Expressionist Prints" by David Acton, Worcester Museum, 2001.

Edmond Casarella was born in Newark, New Jersey on September 3, 1920. Upon his graduation from Cooper Union in 1942, he was hired by Anthony Velonis to print serigraphs at Creative Printmakers under the National Youth Administration, which was part of the New Deal. The following year he created the poster for the 1943 exhibition, Artists for Victory. Casarella joined the U.S. Army in 1944 and, after his discharge, he enrolled at the Brooklyn Museum School where he studied printmaking with Gabor Peterdi.?

Casarella made his first paper relief print about 1948 and continued to experiment with the medium throughout his career. His work was shown in 1949 at the Laurel Gallery in New York and, in 1952, he was being represented by Margaret Lowengrund's Contemporaries Gallery. In 1953, Casarella's work was included in the Young American Printmakers exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and, in 1962, he was included in the widely traveled exhibition, American Prints Today. Casarella received a Fulbright Fellowship in 1951, a Tiffany Award in 1955, and a Guggenheim Grant in 1960. These allowed him to travel throughout Italy and Greece.

Casarella taught at the Brooklyn Museum from 1955 to 1960 and at Cooper Union and Finch College from 1969 to 1975. During the 1960s he taught courses at the Arts Students' League and Hunter College in Manhattan and had temporary teaching positions at the Pratt Institute, Yale University, Rutgers University, and Columbia University.

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