Robert Qualters 2001 Hand-Colored Etching with Poem "While in the Phipps'..."
Item Details
Robert Qualters (American, born 1934)
While in the Phipps’ Butterfly Exhibit, 2001
Hand-colored etching on paper
Signed “Qualters” to the lower right
Numbered 13/20
Includes the poem While in the Phipps’ Butterfly Exhibit by Gail Ghai
Poet’s name is inscribed to the lower left
A hand-colored etching titled While in the Phipps’ Butterfly Exhibit by Pittsburgh artist Robert Qualters (born 1934), juxtaposed with a poem of the same title by Pittsburgh poet Gail Ghai. Qualters met Ghai while taking a poetry writing class, and soon thereafter began illustrating her poems, marking the beginning of their long-term professional relationship. Other print and poem collaborations between Qualters and Ghai include Apple Elegy and On the Corner of Craig and Forbes, which is named after two streets located in Oakland, Pittsburgh and housed in the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Robert Qualters is a painter, printmaker, and installation artist. He studied at Carnegie Tech, then obtained his B.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts and his M.F.A. from Syracuse University. In 1985, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts awarded him Artist of the Year, and in 2014, was the recipient of the Governor’s Award for Artist of the Year in Pennsylvania. Qualters is a former President of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and has had more than 30 solo exhibitions throughout his lifetime. In addition, he has completed over two-dozen public murals and site-specific installations. His work has been exhibited and collected by numerous institutions including the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Oakland California Museum of Art, the Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Concept Art Gallery, Carson Street Gallery, and Borelli Edwards, among others. Recently in 2014, a monograph by Vicky Clark titled Robert Qualters: Autobiographical Mythologies was published, chronicling the artist’s work and life up to his 80th birthday. To view the artist’s website, please see the link below.
Condition
- negligible wear throughout the edges of paper.
Dimensions
- measures the sheet; plate size 8" W x 7" H.
Item #
ITMG462420
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