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Later, Stango began to create silk screen T-shirts. Eventually he turned his attention and energy to painting full-time. [2] [3] Currently he works out of a historic warehouse outside of Philadelphia. Stango paints in the vein of such artists as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, LeRoy Neiman, and Peter ...
In 1939, Velonis, Warsager and other artists co-founded the Creative Printmakers Group in New York City. [20] [21] About this group, Sylvie Covey wrote in Modern Printmaking: A Guide to Traditional and Digital Techniques: "The group's shared screen-printing studio introduced the silkscreen process to many serious artists who went there to have editions printed.
Zigrosser continued: "Late in 1938, in spite of some opposition and through the missionary work of the Public Use of Arts Committee and the United American Artists, a separate Silk Screen Unit, with Anthony Velonis at its head, was established as a branch of the Graphic Section of the New York City W.P.A. Art Project.
[1] [2] [3] The creation of the society coincided with the rise of serigraphs being used as a medium for fine art. [4] Originally called the Silk Screen Group, the name was soon changed to the National Serigraph Society. [5] The National Serigraph Society had its own gallery, the Serigraph Gallery at 38 West 57th Street in New York City. [6]
The Association for Public Art estimates the city has hundreds of public artworks; [1] the Smithsonian lists more than 700. [2] Since 1959 nearly 400 works of public art have been created as part of the city's Percent for Art program, the first such program in the U.S. [ 3 ]
Carl Zigrosser, who was curator of prints and drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1940 through 1963, wrote from the vantage point of 1941 that: "The first serigraph actually made on the newly organized (WPA) New York Silk Screen Project was The Concert by Olds. . . .She is an accomplished graphic artist and has made a considerable ...
1938 – First one-person show of silkscreen prints, Guy Maccoy – artist, sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York [29] 1938 – Anthony Velonis, an experimental silkscreen pioneer and Federal Art Project team leader, encouraged the FAP to start a silkscreen project, which increased recognition of silkscreen as an art form. [30]
Walter Edmonds (April 21, 1938 – June 11, 2011) was an American artist best known for the 14 murals he painted with Richard J. Watson for the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.