Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
American, 1939-1995
A sculptor of animals and American Indian shamanistic objects, filmmaker, and painter, Nancy Graves had a highly successful and varied career, primarily in New York City. In her abstract work, she united her interest in anthropology, totemic objects, cartography, and biomorphic shapes. She was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and became a graduate of Vassar College in 1961 and then Yale University's School of Art and Architecture. Graves won a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship for painting, allowing her to spend a year in Paris in 1964-65. In the next few years, she traveled in North Africa and the Near East and lived and worked in Florence, Italy where she did her first signature work, which was sculptures of life-size Bactrian camels.
In 1966, she moved to New York City and further experimented with ways to produced these sculptures by building wood and steel armatures, covering them with skins of animal embryos, stuffing the skins with polyurethane to form humps, and tinting the skins with oil paints.
In 1968, she had her first New York one-woman show at the Graham Gallery followed by her second one-woman show at the Whitney Museum in 1969. Both exhibitions featured her camels.
In 1972 at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, she made sculpture suggestive of Indian objects such as bones, skins, and feathers and added also steel rods to this motif for other exhibitions.
As a filmmaker, she has had showings in film festivals in London, New York, and Boston.
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Artist: Nancy Graves
Calibrate, 16 color Etching/Aquatint/Engraving/Lithograph, Signed 12/30, Framed
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Graves
Calibrate, 1981
16 color etching, aquatint, engraving and lithograph. Printed from 5 copper plates, 1 zinc plate and 1 stone
Hand signed, numbered 12/30 dated on the fro...
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1980s Abstract Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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5745 Jewish Museum Hanukkah original Signed/n abstract expressionist screenprint
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Graves
5745, for the Jewish Museum, 1984
Silkscreen on paper
Signed, numbered 5/90 and dated in graphite pencil on the front; bears publishers' blind stamp front left corner
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Original Graham Gallery poster, hand signed by sculptor Nancy Graves, Framed
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
Here's something nobody you know has - and good luck finding another hand signed by the artist anywhere else in the world
Nancy Graves
Original Graham Gallery poster (hand signed by ...
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1960s Abstract Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Pencil, Lithograph, Offset
Untitled by Nancy Graves (colorful, abstract print)
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
This edition was commissioned in 1980 by Lincoln Center to commemorate its 10th Annual Community Festival. The signed and numbered edition is 144 was printed at Fine Creations.
Born in 1940 (Pittsfield, MA), Nancy Graves explored the interplay between the replication of nature and the formal values of abstract art in her wide variety of works throughout her life. Thought she first gained attention with her realistic, life-sized camel sculptures, she was later inspired to draw, paint and print by visual representations of natural phenomena, like weather and moon maps...
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To Be Little Consciousness - Original Aquatint by Nancy Graves - 1991
By Nancy Graves
Located in Roma, IT
To Be Little Consciousness is an original contemporary artwork realied by Nancy Graves in 1991.
Mixed colored aquatint and soft varnish.
Hand signed an...
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1980s Abstract Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Aquatint
Large Nancy Graves Color Aquatint Drypoint Etching Screenprint Metallic Gold
By Nancy Graves
Located in Surfside, FL
Nancy Graves, American (1939-1995)
Borborygmi (1988)
aquatint, drypoint, gold leaf and screenprint on Fabriano Artistico paper
pencil hand signed by artist lower right, numbered 4/50 (there were also 6 Artist Proofs of this edition)
plate: 49.5 x 49.5 inches
Publisher: 2RC Edizioni d'Arte, Rome
Nancy Graves (December 23, 1939 – October 21, 1995) was an American woman sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon. Her works are included in many public collections, including those of the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Museum of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg). When Graves was just 29, she was given a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At the time she was the youngest artist, and fifth woman to achieve this honor.
Graves was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Her interest in art, nature, and anthropology was fostered by her father, an accountant at a local museum. After graduating from Vassar College in English Literature, Graves attended Yale University, where she received her bachelor's and master's degrees. Fellow Yale Art and Architecture alumni of the 1960s include the painters, photographers, and sculptors Brice Marden, Richard Serra, Chuck Close, Janet Fish, Gary Hudson...
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1980s Contemporary Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Vertigo
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
Signed and numbered in pencil with studio blindstamp
Color screenprint on Arches Cover paper
29.75 x 35.5 inches
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1980s Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Borborygmi
By Nancy Graves
Located in New York, NY
Borborygmi, 1988
Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil in lower margin
Aquatint with colors
49 x 49 inches
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1980s Nancy Graves Abstract Prints
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Aquatint
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