
280.00 USD
A pencil signed serigraph titled Gulls & Pier by Canadian artist Howard Bradford (1919-2008), created in 1959. The print depicts sails boats in front of a pier with three seagulls layered over them. Bradford uses a variety of muddied blues and greens with elements of orange and yellow shining through. This print is signed in plate as well as in pencil in the lower right, titled in pencil to the lower center, and marked “E65” in pencil. approx. size 34" x 21" UNFRAMED, if interested in the frame please contact me.
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Howard Bradford: A California painter and printmaker, Howard Bradford moved to Los Angeles at an early age. In his early twenties he took his first art lessons from Elwood Decker and then enlisted in the army during World War Two. At the end of the war Howard Bradford enrolled at the Chouinard Art Institute and then completed his artistic education at the California School of Fine Art and at the Jepson Art Institute, San Francisco. His first serigraphs were published in the early 1950's. During the following years such associations as ADI Graphics, San Francisco, and the Associated American Artists, New York, published editions of Howard Bradford's silkscreens.
Howard Bradford was a full member of the Carmel Art Association. In 1960 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative printmaking. Today such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco include the art of Howard Bradford in their permanent collections. His art will also be found in such international collections as the Bibliotheque National de France, Paris, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Born in Toronto, Bradford was raised in Los Angeles. He used the G.I. Bill to study at the Chouinard and Jepson Art Institutes in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibition nationally.
The landscapes and seascapes of Howard Bradford concentrate upon areas within the state of California. Howard Bradford lived in both Los Angeles and Monterey and much of his career was dedicated to the creation of original silkscreens (serigraph).
approx. size 34" x 21" UNFRAMED, if interested in the frame please contact me, we can adjust the price and adjust shipping charges.
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