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  Jack Richard Smith “10003” Blackoil, wax, lead salts on copper 2006

  JACK SMITH (1950-) Taos, NM

  “10003” 2006

  Blackoil, wax, lead salts on copper, ebonized wood frame

  For more information on Jack Smith see: “Taos Portraits” by Jack Smith, May 14^th – August 15^th, 2004, exhibition catalogue (Taos, NM: Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico)

  Canvas: H: 18” x W: 13 3/16”

  Framed: H: 25 1/4” x W: 20 7/16”

  Jack Smith was born in 1950. At age 16, he began his training at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan before moving to Ohio to attend Columbus College of Art and Design. He also studied for a brief time at the Instituto de Allende, at San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico. He now resides in New Mexico. Reflecting a profound knowledge of art history and and an alchemist’s sense of the painting craft, contemporary painter Jack Smith has forged his own place amongst the most powerful of contemporary portraitists working in America. Incorporating blackoil, wax, lead salts, and copper Smith’s small format portraits and paintings are detailed and intimate depictions of creative individuals and charged tableaux. Smith’s singular style of portraits glow with a warm inner light and present honest, straightforward images that speak of personal narratives.Jack Smith recently received a prestigious Past Achievement Award from the Peter and Madeleine Martin Foundation for the Creative Arts, following an important solo exhibition titled, Jack Smith: The Taos Portraits at the Harwood Museum of Art at the University of New Mexico in 2004. The exhibition featured fifty portraits of Taos, New Mexico residents, executed between 2000 and 2003. The series was intended as a visual biography of this unique artistic community at the turn of the century. Smith’s subjects range from the famous to the infamous – including artists, writers, art patrons, Native peoples, and street peoples.

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  Robert Indiana / Robert Creeley, “Numbers” 1968

  ROBERT INDIANA (1928-) USA
  ROBERT CREELEY (1926-2005) USA
  “Numbers” 1968
  Folio, illustrated with 10 original silkscreen prints, stiff boards, printed dust jacket
  Published by Domberger Stuttgart-Schmela Düsseldorf

  Dimensions:
  Book: 9 15/16” x W: 8 3/8”
  Custom leather box: H: 11 3/8” x W: 9 1/16” x D: 1 3/8”
  Custom silk slipcase: H: 12 3/8” x W: 9 ¾” x D: 2 1/16”