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Paper Piece I by Richard Howard Hunt

Paper Piece I by Richard Howard Hunt

Paper Piece I

Richard Howard Hunt

Title

Paper Piece I

 
Artist

Richard Howard Hunt

  1935 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
1978  
Technique
Color lithograph on formed and cast handmade paper. 
Image Size
16 1/4 x 20 7/8" image and paper size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
VIII/XXV, from the roman numeral edition of 25 
Annotations
pencil editioned; printer and publisher chops, left and right corners 
Reference
BAL 40-13-78 
Paper
handmade cast Twinrocker Handmade Paper 
State
published 
Publisher
Lakeside Studios, Michigan (chop, lower right) 
Inventory ID
18641 
Price
SOLD
Description

Richard Howard Hunt’s “Paper Piece I” is the culmination of his decades of work in both printmaking and sculpture, two fields in which he’d established a successful career when this piece was created in 1978. It was part of a series of cast-paper “prints” executed at Lakeside Studios in Illinois - where, in 1969, he had been the first artist to print a lithograph at the popular studio founded by John Wilson.

Hunt’s Abstract composition, like all of his prints, is informed by his continued exploration of the existence of objects in space. Whether working on a flat surface or in three dimensions, he is building environments, and in “Paper Piece I” he applies this theory and his experience with lithography and sculpture to the matrix. Heavy, structure-like shapes are the basis of the composition, but he has carefully applied the ephemeral, cloud-like formations of color that will surround them to the matrix first, thus creating a sense of depth and movement on the flat surface.