Session by Raymond Howell

Session by Raymond Howell

Session

Raymond Howell

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Title

Session

 
Artist

Raymond Howell

  1927 - 2002 (biography)
Year
1970  
Technique
chromolithograph 
Image Size
34 1/2 x 43 1/4" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right margin; within the plate, lower left image. 
Edition Size
23 of 250  
Annotations
dated in the plate after the signature 
Reference
 
Paper
smooth antique-white wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
20740 
Price
$1,500.00 
Description

A self-taught artist, African-American artist Ray Howell was born in Oakland, California and grew up in foster homes. Howell painted many works on commission, including a huge mural at now-closed New Joe's Restaurant on Geary Street in San Francisco, depicting the history of the city's Italian community.

Howell's subject for this very large chromolithograph is a jazz band, getting together in an improvised session. The musicians on stage form a tight composition, focusing on the conga drummer in the foreground, setting the rhythm. The musicians behind him are a diverse group, musically and ethnically, all focusing on their own instrument to create a unified sound. A study in spontaneous harmony.

Howell used chromolithography, usually considered a commercial planographic process, to create this large work, probably reproducing a painting, in an edition of 250. Though not technically an "original" lithograph it was produced and published by the artist. The actual number of impressions printed is not known to the gallery, though editioned at 250 there are not many on record.

 

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