The Pedestrian

 

Dennis Ray Beall

  1929 - 2024 (biography)

1957  

color lithograph 

17 7/8 x 13 3/4" image 

pencil, lower right 

3 of 6  

pencil titled in lower center and dated after the signature 

 

Warren's Oldestyle wove 

published 

artist 

DENB135 

SOLD

The Pedestrianis one from a group of Abstract Expressionist color lithographs Beall created while he was a graduate student at San Francisco State College between 1956 and 1958. He had learned the basics of lithography from Duayne Hatchett while a student at Oklahoma City University and, later as a graduate student at SFSC, Beall assisted his mentor, John Ihle, in developing the study of lithography in the art department. Beall wrote about his process of creating a color lithograph from a single counter-etched stone: By using a strong solution of acetic acid between drawings, the stone may be resensitized without regrinding. Areas of the preceding drawing may be retained, other areas scraped, new design elements introduced, old ones reinforced and, in general, the reconciliation of design and color development more cohesively obtained and controlled….The enormous freedom implied by this system lies in its directness. The communication between the artist and his materials, the successive acts of printing, drawing, scrubbing, and correcting create a continuum which cannot be duplicated in the traditional workshop.