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Harry Bertoia, Printmaker: Monotypes and Other Monographics

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June Kompass Nelson, Ellen Sharp, Nemo Warr
2017
Published by: Wayne State University Press
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The seventy-nine monotypes in this catalogue represent the principal styles and themes that emerged not only in Harry Bertoia's printmaking, but in his sculpture as well. June Kompass Nelson, author of Harry Bertoia, Sculptor, analyzes the graphic works and places them in the context of Bertoia's total oeuvre, with particular regard to their relationship with his sculpture. A teacher of metalwork and printmaking at the Cranbrook Academy of Arts in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Bertoia began working in monotype in 1940-nearly a decade before his first attempts at sculpture-and continually returned to the medium until his death in 1978. Nelson's introduction, biographical material, and well-documented chronology contribute to the portrait of a Michigan artist of international repute who maintained his "regionalist sensibility".

Table of Contents

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Cover

Frontispiece

Title Page

Copyright

Epigraph

Patrons

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Biography

3. Tools and Techniques

4. Analysis

5. The Catalog

Chapter 5 Image Plates

The 1940s

Plate 1 (early 1940s)

Plate 2 (early 1940s)

Plate 3 (early 1940s)

Plate 4 (1940s)

Plate 5 (1940–43)

Plate 6 (1942)

Plate 7 (1940s)

Plate 8 (1940s)

Chapter 5 Image Plates 2

Plate 11 (1945–47)

Plate 12 (1940s)

Plate 13 (1940s)

Plate 14 (1940s)

Plate 15 (1943)

Plate 16 (1940s)

Plate 17 (1940s)

Plate 18 (1940s)

Plate 19 (late 1940s?)

Plate 20 (1940s)

Plate 21 (1940s)

Plate 22 (1944)

Plate 23 (1940s)

Plate 24 (1940s)

Plate 25 (late 1940s?)

The 1950s

Plate 26 (1950–54)

Plate 27 (1952–55)

Plate 28 (1950s)

Plate 29 (1950s)

Plate 30 (1957–59)

Plate 31 (1950s)

Plate 32 (1950s)

Plate 33 (1950s)

Plate 34 (1950s)

Plate 36 (1950s)

Plate 37 (1950s)

Plate 38 (late 1950s)

Plate 39 (1950s)

Plate 40 (1953–54)

Plate 41 (1953–54)

Plate 42 (1957–59)

Plate 43 (1957–59)

Plate 44 (1952–56)

Plate 45 (1952–56)

Plate 46 (1950s)

Plate 47 (1957–58)

Plate 48 (1957–58)

Plate 49 (1954–56)

Plate 50 (1954–56)

Plate 51 (late 1950s)

Plate 52 (late 1950s)

Plate 53 (1956–57)

Plate 54 (1956–59)

Plate 56 (late 1950s)

Plate 57 (late 1950s)

Plate 58 (late 1950s)

The 1960s

Plate 59 (1960s)

Plate 60 (1960s)

Plate 61 (1962)

Plate 62 (1964)

Plate 63 (1964)

Plate 64 (late 1960s)

Plate 65 (late 1960s)

The 1970s

Plate 66 (1970s)

Plate 67 (1970s)

Plate 68 (1970s)

Plate 69 (1970s)

Plate 70 (1970s)

Plate 71 (1970s)

Plate 72 (1970s)

Plate 73 (1970s)

Plate 74 (1970s)

Plate 75 (1970s)

Plate 76 (1970s)

Plate 77 (1970s)

Plate 78 (1970s)

Plate 79 (1978)

6. Chronology

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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