Liz Maxwell

'Commedia Dell'arte Dancers', Bay Area Modernist Figural, SFMOMA, Oakland Museum

1987

Signed lower left, 'R. Carruthers' for Roy Carruthers (American, 1938-2013), inscribed lower right, 'Presentation Proof' and created circa 1983. This is a proof apart from the edition of 60. Printed and published by Editions Press, San Francisco and with their blindstamp. Four prints by this artist, including this one. Painter, printmaker, illustrator, graphic designer and art director, Roy Carruthers was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and first studied at the Port Elizabeth Technical College Art School. From 1956, he worked as an art director and graphic designer in South Africa and, after 1960, in London. In 1968, he immigrated to the United States and worked in the advertising industry in New York. In 1974, Carruthers started his own graphic design firm while pursuing his career as a fine artist producing original paintings, drawings and etchings. His collaboration with Editions Press in San Francisco produced both sculpture and color lithographs, of which this work is a pristine example. He also maintained an academic career, teaching graphic techniques at Manhattan's School for the Visual Arts. Over the course of a distinguished career, Roy Carruthers exhibited widely and with success and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators (1973). His work continued to be exhibited in South Africa and the United States and throughout Europe. In 1982, he returned to South Africa as a guest of the South African Government and was honored with a touring museum exhibition of his work. Roy Carruthers is represented in private and public collections worldwide including the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts...

Signed lower right 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950) and created circa 1935; additionally titled lower left, 'Peggy and Dot' with numb...

The Absolute Real is a lithograph realized by Man Ray in 1964. Hand-singed in pencil by the Artist. Lithograph in Red Ink, 1964. Published by Schwarz, the lithograph is part of th...

One of 7 copies. Justyna DORZAK (b. 1992), In 2011 she graduated from the State Secondary School of Fine Arts. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Diploma in the lithog...