COLOR WOODCUT Signed ~ MID CENTURY ABSTRACT ~ 1958 American LISTED ARTIST

Description: A fine Mid-Century modern hand signed color woodcut by American artist Ray Prohaska (1901-1981). This 1958 print is titled, "Breakwater" and depicts an abstracted view of an East Hampton sea wall and surf, it is printed on fine Japanese washi paper. The image measures 11 × 19 inches, sheet size is approx. 17 x 23 inches. The lower margin is signed, dated, inscribed and numbered in pencil by the artist. The paper shows a couple spots in the margins and a pencil line around to image to denote mat dimensions, otherwise in excellent condition and will frame up beautifully. Ray Prohaska (1901-1981) was an American painter, illustrator and printmaker. He was born in Muo, Yugoslavia (now Montenegro) in 1901; in 1909 at the age of eight, he moved with his family to San Francisco and attended San Francisco School of Fine Arts through his teens, during summers, he worked in logging camps in the Sierras. In 1930 he settled in New York City and began his long, successful career painting illustrations for magazine fiction in major publications including The Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, and McCalls. It was also there, in the 30's, that he became a member of the Society of Illustrators, and the clubs, Artists and Writers, and the Dutch Treat Club. It was around this time that, with his second wife, Carolyn Pierson, he began summering in East Hampton. During the thirties and continuing into the forties he had maintained studio space at the 10th Street Studios, where he met and became friends with artists such as Julian Levi, Alexander Brook, Raphael and Moses Soyer, and Phillip Guston. Prohaska was one of the few illustrators who crossed that difficult line and became accepted as a fine artist. Moving to Amagansett, on the East End of Long Island, in 1943, he began to give his time to the fine arts. At first his paintings were realistic, rock pools and the driftwood and skate eggs that line the shore, but as time passed, they became more rhythmic and far more abstracted.

Price: 285 USD

Location: Spring Hill, Florida

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