CHARLES TURZAK "Love Birds" Mid-century Modern Woodcut Signed Numbered

Description: LovebirdsWoodcut by Charles Turzak Titled, signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Edition of 100. Printed on fine japan paper with pinholes and two vertical cuts in upper margin from original printing and drying. Never framed. I have several of these prints, so the numbering may be different from that shown in the photo. Sheet: 5.75 x 4.75 inchesImage: 2 x 1.75 inches Charles Turzak (1899-1986) was born in a coal town not too far from Chicago, in Illinois. His father, an immigrant miner from Czechoslovakia, had envisioned a professional career for his son. When young Charles won a cartoon contest sponsored by The Purina Company, upon his graduation from high school in 1920, it led him to the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Turzak paid his way through art education, and his early talent for drawing and wood carving turned his attention to the creation of woodcuts. Immediately upon graduating, Charles Turzak started to make a living as a printmaker. He created woodcuts both of illustrational purposes and as fine arts objects. The rapidly developing city of Chicago was overwhelming his artistic muse in these early years. While landmarks of the city define his oeuvre in large part, history, social commentary, figures, and landscapes also increasingly became a part of it. Today mostly remembered for his strong modernist line of the 1920s and 1930s, his abstract compositions, created from the 1950s onward, also deserve attention. Turzak managed to make a living for himself and his family as an artist, through the depression era, World War II and beyond. He is today regarded as one of the great independent early modernist printmakers in the Unites States.

Price: 95 USD

Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts

End Time: 2023-11-28T16:25:44.000Z

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