Robin Shepherd

St. Tropez /// Contemporary Pop Art Beach Ocean Shore Figurative Swimming Modern

1991

Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Sun Therapy" *Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left Year: 1982 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded white wove paper Limited edition: 1/150 Printer: the artist May himself, Oakland, CA Publisher: the artist May himself, Oakland, CA Sheet size: 30.88" x 29.13" Image size: 23.13" x 23.13" Condition: Minor wear to lower right corner. In excellent condition Notes: Titled and dated by May in pencil lower right. The paper is white wove, however the entire recto sheet is screenprinted with color. The margins are screenprinted in red which connect throughout the central image. Biography: Dan May is an American painter and printmaker born on March 11, 1955 in San Francisco, CA. Raised in aesthetic surroundings heavily influenced by his architect father, May grew up learning to view all things with an eye for design, color, and shape. At age 5, he remembers his father cutting up a book of drawings by Henri Matisse and hanging them on the walls of their home. The French master Matisse as well as Richard Diebenkorn and David Hockney are his favorite art influences. He began his first attempts at painting at age 15, and later began to experiment with printmaking, teaching himself various techniques such as woodblock printing, etching, silkscreen printing, and monoprinting. Monoprinting soon became May's medium of choice due to its wide range of expression and spontaneity that he felt other techniques lacked. May - "With monoprinting, you can only work a piece for as a long as the paint stays wet, so the resulting print has a feeling of movement and immediacy. I also like how monoprinting allows the brush strokes to transfer a transparent light quality to the print. For me, this is a technique that bridges drawing...

Artist: Thomas McKnight (American, 1941-) Title: "Sagaponack" Portfolio: The Hamptons *Signed by McKnight in pencil lower right Year: 1987 Medium: Original Screenprint on soft-white ...

Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Paper, Framed 63.5 x 75.5 x 4 cm Edition of 10 Maxwell Stevens is an American artist born in 1971 who lives and works in New York, USA. He received an M...

Oil on canvas Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...