Returning a Star to the Sky by Tom Salvatore Fricano

Returning a Star to the Sky by Tom Salvatore Fricano

Returning a Star to the Sky

Tom Salvatore Fricano

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Title

Returning a Star to the Sky

 
Artist
Year
1953  
Technique
One block color masonite cut 
Image Size
20 x 12" image size 
Signature
pencil signed, lower right 
Edition Size
8 of 13  
Annotations
pencil titled, dated, and editioned 
Reference
 
Paper
sturdy antique-white wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
23359 
Price
$600.00 
Description

"Returning a Star to the Sky" was done in 1953 while Tom Fricano was at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. The early 1950s printmaking departments around the US were either directly or indirectly influenced by S.W. Hayter's experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17 in New York in the 40s and 50s. Many students went on to teach the ideas of materials experimentation that was an A17 hallmark.

Fricano used a single masonite block to cut this Modernist image, printing the colors a la poupeƩ in a single campaign, the colors varying slightly from impression to impression. The theme has a surrealist, mythic quality; a central goddess-like figure stands, with the seas beneath, the night sky to the left and day sky to the right, with a grey-green twilight above. She releases a star into the night sky which will come into view as night falls.

 

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