Carol Wax Portrait Prints
American, b. 1953
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting.
Recognition of Carol's art includes an Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc., two Artist Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Concordia Career Advancement Award from NYFA, The Louise Nevelson Award for Excellence in Printmaking from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and residences at The MacDowell Colony and Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation's Space Program. A selection of the many collections that own her prints are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York and Boston Public Libraries, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Library of Congress, and The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.to
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Artist: Carol Wax
Singer I (Distorted perspective with shadows of an old Singer typewriter)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Singer I", shows a distorted view of an old Singer sewing machine. The artist created a convincing illusion of real mass, space and depth. Issued in an edit...
Category
1980s Contemporary Carol Wax Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Singer II (Woodgrain, incised metal plate of a Singer typewriter casts shadows)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, Singer II looking at the end of the typewriter portrays the incised metal and the wood grain of the machine. It was issued as an edition of 75. This image is i...
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1980s Contemporary Carol Wax Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Singer IV (part of a typewriter that is iconic)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, Singer IV looking at the botton of the typewriter portrays the incised metal of the machine. It was issued as an edition of 75 and this impression is #22. FIR...
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1990s Contemporary Carol Wax Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Singer Needle
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's "Singer Needle" is a mezzotint issued in an edition of 100. It was originally designed to illustrate the step by step mezzotint process in the Abrams publication: "The Mezzotint: History and Technique" authored by Carol Wax. It is FIROS #44 in the catalogue raisonne.
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting.
In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
Category
1980s American Modern Carol Wax Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
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Missing Link
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #12 from an edition of only 75,
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after...
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Made in China (A lantern with Chinese characters etched on the base)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Made in China", explores the irony that glass, a transparent material alters perceptions of reality. This is the first instance in which Wax explores that iro...
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1980s Contemporary Carol Wax Portrait Prints
Materials
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Architextures
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Architextures is a suite of 8 mezzotints in an edition of 50 created in 1984:
Mosque and Mosque Interior (5.1 cm x 5.1 cm)
Dome and Dome Interior (5.7cm x 3.8 cm)
Castle and Castle ...
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1980s American Modern Carol Wax Portrait Prints
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Apple Peeler II (a kitchen tool interpreted by paintings of Yves Tanguy)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Apple Peeler II", shows the simple tool influenced in part by Yves Tanguy. It was created in 1992 an edition of 50. This image is...
Category
1980s Contemporary Carol Wax Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
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By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
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Boots (the beauty of the everyday, the mundane)
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Are these "Boots" made for walking? Are they primed to give someone a swift kick? Or have they come back from a night of zydeco dancing? There is beauty that we don't often notice i...
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Carol Wax portrait prints for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Carol Wax portrait prints available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Carol Wax in engraving, mezzotint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Carol Wax portrait prints, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Lilya Vorobey, George Grosz, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Carol Wax portrait prints prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $200 and tops out at $1,500, while the average work can sell for $450.