Print of the Day!! Wed, March 20, 2024 is by Barbara Olmsted (1915-2013): Untitled Abstraction; intaglio; 1941; proof, not editioned.
Print of the Day!! Wednesday, March 20, 2024 is by Atelier 17 Printmaker Barbara Olmsted (1915-2013). Another in a series of 'Prints by Women' honoring Women's History Month.
(Untitled Abstraction), is an intaglio, an etching and engraving by early Atelier 17 printmaker Barbara Olmsted (1915-2013). The platemark measures 6-1/2 x 5-5/8 inches and is plated signed and dated "41" by the artist in the lower right image. This proof impression was hand-printed by the artist in 1941, probably at Atelier 17 in New York, on a cream, fibrous chiri kozo laid paper that measures 11-15/16 x 10-1/16 inches. It was not officially editioned. The gallery inventory number for this work is 19989.
This rare, abstract intaglio by American Atelier 17 printmaker Barbara Olmsted (1915-2013) is available from the gallery for purchase.
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Barbara Olmsted's 1930s and 40s work reflects the changing tides of modern art in the early half of the 20th century. The bulk of her oeuvre was rooted in surrealism and evolved into non-representational abstract expressionism. One hallmark of this path is her use of gestural line, attributed in some respects to Atelier 17 founder Stanley William Hayter, with whom she and her husband, Frederick Olmsted, studied during the workshop's original iteration in Paris in the late 1930s. Later in her life she went on to become an early organic farmer.
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Using a Surrealist perspective accompanied by organic shapes and linear patterns that seem to float, Olmsted creates a curious back and forth movement that keep the whole composition in a Surreal balance. This impression is signed and dated in the lower right corner of the image and was done at Atelier 17 in New York.
Barbara Olmsted attended the University of California Berkeley for two years and the California School of Fine Arts, where she met and married fellow student Frederick Olmsted. The couple traveled to Paris to visit another CSFA student, Helen Phillips, who had received a scholarship to study abroad. While in Paris, they met Phillips's future husband, Stanley William Hayter. Barbara and Fred worked at the first of three incarnations of Atelier 17 for three months before departing with Phillips and Hayter to tour Germany and Vienna to study frescoes. The Olmsteds returned to San Francisco in late 1937.
Barbara Olmsted's work was included in the important 1944 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Hayter and Studio 17, which featured sixty prints by thirty-two artists from twelve nations. Her prints are few and very rare but she exhibited them in the San Francisco Bay Area for a few years and was an active member of the San Francisco Art Association.
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