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Arthur Secunda large Silkscreen signed numbered

this fine vintage spectacular color serigraph and is signed in pencil by the artist on the front lower right "Secunda" it is not dated. It is titled in pencil and numbered on the lower left printed on 100% rag watermarked paper. It measures "45X36 inches" and is in excellent condition with minor foxing to margins. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are among the many institutions that include Secunda's work in their permanent collections.Biography Arthur Secunda, (1927 - ), printmaker, collage, abstraction Arthur Secunda was born in New Jersey in 1927. His career in art has been marked by international recognition in many fields - painter, sculptor, teacher, critic and printmaker. In 1947, after a year in the U.S. Air Force as a staff artist, he attended New York University and the Art Students League in New York where he studied with Harry Sternberg, Reginald Marsh and Julian Levi. He later continued his education in Paris and Rome where he studied sculpture with Ossip Zadkine and painting with Andre L'hote. Secunda spent the following year in Mexico working at the Esmeralda Escuela de Pintura y Escultura, where he learned the art of woodcarving and woodcut printing. Secunda was the founding editor of Artforum magazine in Los Angeles in 1963. Secunda's first one man show was at the Galerie Lucien Gout in Montpellier in 1950. Since that time, he has exhibited widely all over the United States, Europe and Japan in over 150 galleries, museums and universities, as well as major art fairs in New York, Paris, Basel and Cologne. His art works hang in the permanent collections of important institutions worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.; the Chicago Art Institute; the Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts and the Detroit Art Institute in the U.S. In addition to the Tel Aviv Museum, his art has been acquired by European museums in Aries, Geneva, Stockholm, Choler, Ostend, Brussels, Zurich, and elsewhere. Secunda is particularly noted for his brilliant collages and striking graphics.

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