Untitled

 

Byron McClintock

  1930 - 2022 (biography)

1951  

color lithograph 

17 1/8 x 19 3/4" image & paper 

pencil, lower right on support sheet 

inscribed a/p; artist's proof 

dated after signature on support sheet 

This impression is illustrated in "California Society of Printmakers - One Hundred Years 1913-2013," page 10 

Warren's Oldestyle supported on J Perricot Arches Special MBM watermarked wove paper 

 

artist 

BYMC194 

SOLD

Byron McClintock moved to San Francisco in 1949 and enrolled in the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) where he studied under Edward Corbett, Richard Diebenkorn, and James Budd Dixon. These artists were instrumental in developing a San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionist printmaking.

McClintock approached the litho stone directly, as he did with a canvas, using a single stone over and over for each color, scraping and building atmospheric layers of color. In this early lithograph Byron allows some of the paper to show through as touches of light, emanating from a unidentified source.

The CSFA printmakers printed the whole stone to the edges which often resulted in an uneven, fuzzy edge. Byron would trim the Warren's Oldestyle paper to eliminate this and square up the image. After the interest in California Abex prints increased he began to mount the trimmed print to a support sheet of J Perricot Arches Special MBM watermarked wove paper and sign and date the work. These works were printed in a few proofs only and were never editioned.

This impression is illustrated in "California Society of Printmakers - One Hundred Years 1913-2013," page 10.