Garo Antreasian American (1922-2018) Quartet I, 1995 lithograph Color Trial Proof, pencil signed lower margin. From AskArt: Garo Antreasian, born February 16, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana has been involved with lithography since the age of seventeen. He was first introduced to the medium by discovering a deserted hand press at Arsenal Technical High School in his hometown of Indianapolis. He received his formal art education at the Herron in Indianapolis, receiving his BFA degree in 1948. He also studied printmaking with Will Barnet in New York at the Art Students League, and Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in the late forties. During the 1950s, while working as an instructor at the Herron School of Art, he began to create color lithographs. In 1960, he was invited to be the first technical director of the new Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, which moved to the University of New Mexico in 1970. During this time he worked to promote the art of lithography among American artists. Antreasian's paintings and prints incorporated innovative materials and techniques such as printing on metal foil, using metallic inks, embossing the print surface, and collaging. His work evolved from romantic, semi-abstract imagery of the 1950s and 1960s, through Abstract Expressionism, to an increasingly non-representational and Minimal mode in the 1970s. In the 1980s, he returned to painting after a long break. His works inspired by Constructivist and diagrammatic fundamentals using geometric linear configurations with colored fields and shapes. Awards include a Senior Artists Grant by the National Endowment for the Arts and an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Purdue University. He exhibited at the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and the 14th International Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. Antreasian is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, New York City 14 1/4"H x 14 1/2"W (image), 32"H x 25 3/4"W (frame)