The Prints of Warrington Colescott

by Chapin, Mary Weaver

• ISBN13: 9780299233006
• ISBN10: 0299233006
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-23
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Since the 1940s, printmaker Warrington Colescott has trained his brilliant artistic eye on the fashions and foibles of human behavior. A satirist in the tradition of William Hogarth, Francisco Goya, Honoreacute; Daumier, and George Grosz, Colescott utilizes his sharp wit and vivid imagination to interpret contemporary and historical events, from the personal to the public, the local to the international. He is especially noted for his exceptional command of complex printmaking techniques and for his innovative approach to intaglio printing. The Prints of Warrington Colescott: A Catalogue Raisonneacute;, 19482008is the first fully illustrated catalogue to document Colescottrs"s extensive and varied graphic career. Author and curator Mary Weaver Chapin has worked closely with Colescott, interviewed him at length, and had unique access to his private papers and archives. She documents his personal and artistic life in a detailed biographic sketch, and her extensive essay "A Research Printmaker and Mad-Dog Attack Artist" examines the evolution of his printmaking career, focusing on his technique, iconography, and his place in American printmaking. The catalogue documents and depicts all three hundred fifty four of Colescottrs"s prints, providing title, date, media, dimensions, and selected exhibition history and collections for each print, along with comments and anecdotes by Chapin and Colescott. The volume also includes a list of selected exhibitions of Colescottrs"s prints, a selected bibliography, concordance, and index.

Author Biography

Warrington Colescott (b. 1921) was born and educated in California. He served in the Coast Artillery during World War II and was professor of art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1949 to 1986. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Modern, and BibliothFque Nationale de France, and many other museums. Colescott is still actively making art in his home studio in Hollandale, Wisconsin. He is the co-author, with Art Hove, of the book Progressive Printmakers: Wisconsin Artists and the Print Renaissance, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Mary Weaver Chapin is associate curator of prints and drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum and has also worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the coauthor of the exhibition catalogue Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, National Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.