Bob Cato

Still Life from the Nantucket Series (Silver), Modern Screenprint by Bob Cato

circa 1970

Peter Kalen - West Hill, Year: 1968, Medium: Screenprint on thin wove paper, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 2/15, Image Size: 15 x 11 inches, Size: 16.75 x 12 in. (...

Bob Cato, American (1923 - 1999) - White Fish From the Nantucket Series (Yellow), Year: circa 1970, Medium: Screenprint on Somerset, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 5/75, I...

Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for 'Marion Cunningham' (American, 1908-1948) and created in 1948. Paper dimensions: 17.75 x 16 inches A substantial and rare, mid-century silkscreen showing a Samoan family seated beneath a traditional tent of tapa cloth and being served by a young woman. To realize this complex work, Cunningham used as many as one dozen hand-drawn screens, each of which varied in pigment, hue and opacity. Created during the extraordinary creative ferment that characterized the last year of the artist's life, this work represents a remarkable achievement for both artist and medium. Born in Indiana, Marion Osborn Cunningham moved to California in 1911. She first studied art with the American Impressionist, Ruth Heil Emerson, before continuing her education at Santa Barbara City College and receiving her Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University. She subsequently furthered her studies at the California School of the Fine Arts and at the Art Students League in New York City, where she met and married the American abstract artist Ben Cunningham. Returning to San Francisco...

"Nativity" Modernist Landscape Screenprint in Ink on Paper Whimsical modern landscape silkscreen print of the nativity scene by San Francisco, C...