Object Record
Metadata
Artist |
Colescott, Warrington |
Title |
Snapshots From Underground |
Medium |
intaglio and silkscreen print on paper |
Date |
1971 |
Description |
Warrington Colescott (Oakland, California 1921-2018 Hollandale, Wisconsin) Snapshots from Underground, 1971 Intaglio and silkscreen on paper 41 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 1971 purchase award from the 7th Dulin National Print and Drawing Competition Born in New Orleans, Warrington Colescott attended high school in Oakland California and studied art at the University of California in Berkeley, where he made his first prints for the editorial page of the student newspaper, "The Pelican". This experience provided fertile ground for Colescott's nascent interest in political satire. After graduation in 1942, Colescott had a four year stint in the U.S army. He returned to Berkeley four years later as a graduate student in painting. He taught himself serigraphy and was exhibiting on the West Coast when he took a teaching position at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, where he met Harvey Littleton and inked the first vitreograph or glass-plate for Harvey, "Trial I". In 1990 Warrington was one of the first printmakers to visit Littleton Studios where he took advantage of glass-plates' ability to produce vibrant colors (glass does not react with the chemicals in ink, so it will produce brilliant colors, especially reds and yellows, which are difficult to produced with conventional printing techniques). |
Catalog Number |
1971.05.01 |
Search Terms |
Prints Intaglio prints Paper Screen prints Mixed media works Dulin Gallery of Art |
Artist 2 |
African American |