Artist Bird, James (Jim) (English 1937-2010)
Title Untitled Abstract
Date 1990's
Medium lithograph printed in colors
Dimensions 22 x 30 inches
Edition A.P. IX/X
Description Jim Bird left a successful design studio in England to live as an artist in Spain. He soon became affiliated with Galeria Joan Prats, one of the most prestigious galleries in Spain. After coming to the U.S. in 1980, one of the first people Bird looked up was Robert Motherwell. He and Motherwell became friends and exhibited their work together both in Spain and the U. S. After Motherwell?s death, Bird served as the only artist on the six-person board of the Daedalus Foundation, established by Motherwell to distribute his art to public institutions in the U.S. Bird's works frequently illustrate Motherwell's insistence that sometimes the artist is privileged to be ?an expresser of adoration for the miracle of a world that has colors, meaningful shapes, as spaces that may exhibit the real expansion of the human spirit as it moves and has its being.?
Signature pencil signed lower right
Provenance Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa.; The Soffer Family Collection
Frame Type brown metal
Frame Size 28 x 35.5 inches

in good condition