Double Entendre by Herlinde Spahr

Double Entendre by Herlinde Spahr

Double Entendre

Herlinde Spahr

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Title

Double Entendre

 
Artist

Herlinde Spahr

  1952 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
1994  
Technique
color lithograph with additional handcoloring 
Image Size
15 x 20 1/4" image and paper size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
8/50 E.V. 
Annotations
pencil titled, dated, and editioned 
Reference
 
Paper
ivory wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
HESP108 
Price
$400.00 
Description

Rabbits? Ducks? Ducks? Rabbits? Herlinde Spahr created this image in reference to the rabbit/duck illusion by Austrian art historian Ernst Gombrich, from his book entitled "Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation" (1960). This image varies from print to print in color.

Herlinde Spahr, printmaker and author, was born in Antwerp, Belgium on December 19, 1952. She was an exchange student in Greene, Iowa under the program Youth for Understanding for the school year 1971-1972, and then attended the School for Dramatic Art in Antwerp, Belgium in 1972-1973. Spahr received her MA from the University of Antwerp, Cum Laude, in 1977. That same year she moved to Northern California as a graduate student and, in 1987, she received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California Berkeley, Cum Laude.

Spahr began exploring stone lithography in the early 1980s when she discovered an old Griffin press at the ASUC Studio on the UC campus. Her current studio, Lithium Press, is located in Orinda, California. She began her career making lithographs printed from limestone but, in the 1990s, she printed collaged lithographs from stone onto Formica. Recently Spahr began creating unique works on large panels of Formica incorporating techniques from printmaking.

Her work has been featured in the books The Best in Printmaking; An International Collection by Lynne Allen and 60 Years of North American Prints. 1917-2007 by David Acton. Spahr has written a series of articles about the nature of printmaking and she has published three books documenting her work.

 

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