Botanical Gardens II by Leonard Edmondson

Botanical Gardens II by Leonard Edmondson

Botanical Gardens II

Leonard Edmondson

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Title

Botanical Gardens II

 
Artist
Year
1956  
Technique
color serigraph 
Image Size
13 x 26"  
Signature
pencil, lower right margin 
Edition Size
50 
Annotations
titled, lower center margin 
Reference
 
Paper
ivory laid 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
LE150 
Price
$1,250.00 
Description

Launching his distinctive style from the abstract surrealism of Paul Klee and the expressionism of Hans Hofmann, Los Angeles artist Leonard Edmondson's aesthetic imagery invokes what he called 'almost remembered' forms, feelings and spaces in his paintings, watercolors, etchings and screenprints.

In his "Botanical Forms" series a three dimensionality is found in raised, spidery shapes fannign out across the chaos. The technique used to acheive this was likely informed by the artist Sylvia Wald, whose abstractions frequently featured these textures. It is described in David Acton's section on Wald in A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking 1890 - 1960: "The viscous top layer of ink, with its raised veins, achieves a peculiar organic freedom and delicacy. The artist creates the arborescent impasto pattern by painting with thick, sticky ink, and by lifting the screen with a sudden movement, pulling up ridges and peaks of ink that resemble the veins of leaves of insects' wings.

"This painterly method created great variations among prints within an edition, each impression being essentially unique."

 

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