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Ed MellSonoran Kings by Ed Mell2022
2022
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About the Item
"Sonoran Kings"
Ed Mell 1942-2024
Stone lithograph
32" x 24"
**PRINTS ARE ESTATE SIGNED WITH WITH EMBOSSED LOGO AND SIGNATURE STAMP***
Edition. 200, 2020
Print is unframed.
Biography
Ed (Edmund) Paul, Jr. Mell
Born in 1942, Ed Mell spent an idyllic childhood in what was then the small western city of Phoenix, Arizona. He began drawing at a very early age, inspired by the automobiles and futuristic design of the late ‘40s and ‘50s. After attending Phoenix Junior College, a burgeoning interest in advertising and illustration led him to attend Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Although an advertising major, he was still able to vicarously experience the school’s world renowned automotive design department through several of his friends.
After Los Angeles, Ed went on to work at Young and Rubicam, one of the top advertising agencies in New York, and Kenyon and Eckhardt where he worked on such major accounts as Helena Rubenstein and Air France. Finding art directing creatively stiffling, he moved onto illustration, becoming one of the first airbrush artists to emerge in the 60’s. His skill in this newly rediscovered medium attracted clients such as Tang and National Lampoon, the latter of whom he did two covers for.
It was after two summers teaching art on the Hopi reservation that Ed decided to return home to Arizona’s Sonoran desert. “Spending months in that beauty right after being in the city was the catalyst that changed my artistic direction.”
Ed’s first works in oil were very minimal and angular, while later he moved onto more naturalistic expressions of the Western landscape. Ed still paints in both styles today, and began making bronze sculptures in the ‘80s. His work is in many corporate and private collections, nationally and internationally, including China and Mexico. Some of the collectors include, Diane Keaton, The Forbes Collection and the Anschutz Collection. The Phoenix Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art and the Denver Art Museum, all permanently own his work.
Several large scale works have also been commissioned by public works, including an eight and half foot tall bucking bronco, a mural-esque painting for the visitor’s center of Kartchner Caverns, and most recently a bronze of a rising phoenix for Phoenix City Hall. In 1996 his life as an artist was chronicled in the Northland Press book “Beyond the Visible Terrain: The Art of Ed Mell.” Regardless of style or medium, Ed is most renowned for his uncanny ability to capture the power of his awesome subjects, whether a brewing desert storm that dwarfs the tallest of mountains, or an animal frozen in violent action.
Corporate Collections
Collier Gallery
Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Los Angeles, California
Tri-Star Pictures, Hollywood, California
Chase Bank, Phoenix, Arizona
Mountain Bell, Denver, Colorado
Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Arizona
Mary Kay Cosmetics, Dallas, Texas
Northern Trust, Phoenix, Arizona
Museum Collections
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia
Leanin’ Tree Museum of Western Art
Public Collections
City of Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona
City of Glendale, Glendale, Arizona
City of Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona
Kartchner Cavern State Park, Benson, Arizona
Private Collections
Diane Keaton, Beverly Hills, California
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles, California
Stephane Janssen, Scottsdale, Arizona
Joseph Coors, Denver, Colorado
Phil Anschutz, Denver, Colorado
Bruce Babbitt, Phoenix, Arizona
Kip Forbes, New York, New York
Craig and Barbara Barrett, Paradise Valley, Arizona
Commemorative Centennial Stamp USPS for the State of Arizona 2012
Partial listing of Exhibits
Printed Publications:
Exhibitions
Shows
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Center of Modern Art, Guadalajara, Mexico
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona
Kolb Studio at Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Phippen Museum, Prescott, Arizona
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
The Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona
Booth Museum of Western Art, Cartersville, Georgia
Forbes Galleries, New York, New York
Book Publications
Beyond the Visible Terrain in the Art of Ed Mell
The Majesty of the Grand Canyon: 150 Years in Art
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
Painters of Utah's Canyons
Deserts
Magazine Publications
Leading the West
Southwest Art
American Artist
Arizona Highways
Western Art Collector
True West
Western Interiors
Design
Phoenix Magazine
- Creator:Ed Mell (1942, American)
- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Phoenix, AZ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2623217087312
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