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  Tim Liddy Who Can Beat Nixon (1970) Presidential Sweepstakes 2006 Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back

  TIM LIDDY

  “Who Can Beat Nixon” (1970) Presidential Sweepstakes 2006

  Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back

  Signed in script: Tim Liddy “circa 1970” 2006, red circular ring

  Provenance: William Shearburn Gallery (St. Louis, MO)

  H: 11 ¾” x W: 9” x D: 2”

  With his recent paintings, Liddy has both reasserted the construct of hyperrealist painting and developed a thoroughly unique advancement of that mode by extending the cultural reality of the indexed original. Based on the illustrated box lids of vintage board games, Liddy has recontextualized a subject, which evokes the underlying rules of life. Painted on copper or steel in the precise dimensions of the original, the metal is then manipulated to demonstrate the exact rips and tears from years of usage and includes trompe-l’oeil renditions of the scotch tape that might be holding the cardboard box together, the assorted stains, or the various graffiti of time. Liddy leaves no possibility of ambivalence, these works speak to a concurrent understanding of their original object identity and to themselves as works of art engaged in historical and psychological dialogue.

   

   

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  Edmund F. Ward “The Swimming Hole” Oil on canvas c. 1930

  EDMUND F. WARD (b. 1892 – 1991) USA

  “The Swimming Hole”   c. 1930

  Oil on canvas

  Marks: signed Edm. F. Ward (lower right); partial labels verso:Westchester Arts and Crafts Guild; 4 Edmund F. Ward

  For more information on the artist see: Who Was Who in American Art,Peter Hastings Falk, ed. (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 658.

  Canvas H: 18” x W: 24”

  Framed H: 27 9/16” x W: 33 9/16”

  Price: $14,000

  Ward studied at the Arts Student’s League with Edward Dufner, George Bridgeman, and Thomas Fogarty. He was an illustrator for several national magazines and books. In 1925, Ward exhibited an award winning work at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is perhaps best known for his WPA mural in the Federal Building, White Plains, New York.

   

   

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  György Kepes, Abstraction, Gelatin silver print, 1942

  GYÖRGY KEPES (1906-2001) Hungary/USA

  Abstraction 1942

  Silver gelatin print

  Signed: 9 (in a circle, on back); Gyorgy Kepes 1942 (in ink on back)

  György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1947 He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974.

  Framed size: H: 29 3/16” x W: 25 ¼”