Sidney Gordin Art

Artist: Sidney Gordin – American (1918 - 1996) Title: “Untitled” from the suite: 10 West Coast Artists, Collector’s Press, 1967 Year: 1967 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Size: 22.5 x 30 inches. Publisher: Collector’s Press, San Francisco Printed by: Ernest de Soto, Michael Knigin, and Gordon Kluge Edition: 75. Signature: Signed lower left in pencil Embossed publisher’s chop lower left of the Collector’s Press, San Francisco; Numbered : 39/75 lower left in pencil Condition: Excellent This lithograph is from the notable portfolio “10 West Coast Artists” containing ten prints, title page and colophon page, published by Collector’s Press in San Francisco in 1967. Prints by Keith Boyle, Bruce Conner, Richard Diebenkorn, Roy de Forest, Sidney Gordin, Frank Lobdell, James Melchert...

Sidney Gordin Untitled, 1958 Incised with initials Welded Steel 15 x 10 1/2 x 6 inches Provenance: Eric Firestone Gallery, New York On October 24, 1918, Sidney Gordin was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia. He spent his early years in Shanghai, China. At the age of four, he moved with his family to New York. Gordin’s nephew, Eliot Nemzer recalls that when Gordin was a child he attended “a dinner party with his parents. Someone showed him a book of pictures that when thumbed through quickly made the image appear to move. This person then gave him a wad of blank papers and something to write with. Sid created a similar type of moving image with his materials. All the adults at the party became quite excited [and] praised his efforts. Sid told me he thought this was a pivotal experience in guiding him towards his vocation.” During his formative years at Brooklyn Technical High School, he briefly contemplated the idea of becoming an architect; yet, by the time he enrolled at Cooper Union, he was determined to become a professional artist. There, he studied under Morris Kantor (1896-1974) and Leo Katz...