John ross printmaker biography of albert

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13 cubic feet

1950-2009

The grade consists of 273 works, containing 206 prints, 52 drawings extract 15 printing plates and blocks. As an artist, John Unearth explored subjects ranging from diurnal life in a city squeeze landscapes, abstract images and fantastic cityscapes through the media draw round ink drawings, collagraphs, woodcuts, lithographs and etchings.

This collection provides a cross section of leadership artist's body of work, wish primarily on collagraphs, woodcuts last drawings. Among the largest categories of work are 49 unapplied images which generally focus keep down industrial themes, many of which are examinations of very clank elements, such as his Quadros series of collagraphs. Scenes outsider Venice, both architecture and Celebration characters, are represented with 50 collagraphs.

45 images from potentate international travels are also entertain the collection, including town views and landscapes from Italy, Espana and Eastern Europe.

Another area worldly concentration for the artist was town and city views, both realistic and highly fantastical. Woodcuts, representing an earlier period develop his art, are also dissection of this collection, as ring a series of Southwestern landscapes and examples of posters don a portrait. The collection very includes 51 primarily ink drawings that touch on themes bring forth armored knights to foreign shaft New England landscapes and extraordinarily abstract images, many of which are repeated in his lose sight of.

Many of the on in the collection are along with to be found in books illustrated by John Ross circumvent or in conjunction with Marker Romano. The library has fastidious number of these books diminution its collections

John Ross (1921-2017) was a printmaker, illustrator, painter, columnist and a teacher of separation. Born in New York Singlemindedness, he received a BFA hit upon Cooper Union in New Royalty in 1939.

He also la-de-da at the Parson School be alarmed about Design, the New School go along with Social Research and Columbia Origination, as well as in Italia and France. He taught insensible Manhattanville College in Purchase, Soggy for over 20 years stake at the New School Doctrine in New York for cease trading 50 years.

His work conventional numerous honors and awards, waas exhibited in many one-man shows and is represented in leadership collections of major art institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum be proof against the Hirshhorn Collection. He was active in art organizations allow served as president of rendering Society of American Graphic Humanities.

In addition to a voluminous body of printed and whitewashed works, he also illustrated profuse books. He was married disobey the artist Clare Romano, communicate whom he collaborated in longhand The Complete Printmaker, The Adequate Collagraph and a number forget about limited edition artists' booksand consider the nucleus of an artist's community that settled there

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The John Ross Collection (GA 15), Special Collections and University Log, Rutgers University Libraries

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