Object Record
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Metadata
Artist |
Colescott, Warrington |
Title |
Jazz Piano |
Medium |
Silkscreen on paper, edition of 10 or less |
Date |
1949 |
Description |
Warrington Colescott (Oakland, California 1921-2018 Hollandale, Wisconsin) Jazz Piano, 1949 Silkscreen on paper, edition of 10 or less 9 x 12 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2002 gift of Charles Dean in memory of Evelyn Barker Dean 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 |
2002.04.01 |
Search Terms |
Screen prints Prints Paper Jazz musicians Pianos |
Credit line |
Gift of Charles Dean in memory of Evelyn Barker Dean |