Print of the Day!! Thursday, May 2, 2024 is by Frances Gearhart (1869-1958): "Beyond and Away"; color blockprint; 1927; edition ca 50, each unique.
Print of the Day!! Tuesday, November 28, 2023 is by Arts & Crafts printmaker Frances Gearhart (1869-1958).
"Beyond and Away" is a color blockprint done in 1927. This proof impression is pencil signed and titled by the artist in the margin below the image. The image measures 9-1/8 x 10 inches and hand printed by the artist in uniquely colored proofs on a soft ivory wove Japanese paper that measures 18-5/8 x 11-7/8 inches. The gallery inventory number for this blockprint is DOZU109.
This rare color blockprint by Frances?Gearhart is available at the gallery for purchase.
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Beyond and Away is an example of Gearhart's favorite subjects: the landscape of the Western United States. Here she created the illusion of a vast landscape by framing the image with large, darkly outlined trees thus forcing the viewer to look through and beyond. From a mountainside, the landscape steps downward to a cultivated orchard flanked by tall trees which then drops into a flat plain of greenery and trees. The changing colors of the lilac-colored clouds create the sense of infinity. Gearhart used a linoleum key-block, printed with black oil-based ink, to create most of the linear elements for this landscape and then hand brushed color on a tone block. The brush strokes are visible throughout the image and add a sense of? direction to the trees, clouds, and sky. As a result of this direct approach, each impression will vary in color to some degree.
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Frances Hammell Gearhart, painter, printmaker, and teacher, was born on 4 January 1869 in Sagetown, Illinois and her family moved to Pasadena, California in 1888. She graduated from the State Normal School in Los Angeles in 1891 and began teaching the following year. In 1896, Frances moved north to attend the State University in Berkeley [now the University of California Berkeley] where she earned her BA degree in philosophy in 1900. Frances joined her sisters, May and Edna, in the field of education, teaching English History in the Los Angeles School System.
Gearhart spent summers in the east, studying art with Charles H. Woodbury in Boston and Henry R. Poore in New York. As a woodblock printmaker, she is considered to be self-taught and created her first print in 1918. She joined the Print Makers Society of California in 1919 and opened her Pasadena studio for use by the society. Gearhart worked tirelessly in the organization of the society and co-chaired the selection committee. In 1920, she produced a color linocut, On the Salinas River, that was the first gift print of the Print Makers Society of California. In July 1923, Gearhart studied block print techniques in Santa Barbara with the British printmaker, Frank Morley Fletcher. Gearhart was also a member of and exhibited with the Prairie Print Makers and the American Federation of Arts.
Her work was included in survey exhibitions of American color woodcut at the Brooklyn Museum and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Frances Hammell Gearhart died in Pasadena, California on April 4, 1958.
Frances Hammell Gearhart is represented in the collections throughout the US. In 2009, the Pasadena Museum of California Art published the catalog Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart for an exhibition of Gearhart's work. Susan Futterman, Nancy E. Green, and Victoria Dailey wrote essays and the catalog was edited by Futterman.
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