Howard Bradford Serigraph "Three Birds"

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A pencil signed serigraph titled Three Birds by Canadian-born artist Howard Bradford (1919-2008), created in 1950. The artist’s use of positive and negative space is used to great effect in depicting three birds, two represented primarily through a muddied palette of orange, yellow and green, the third a darker shade of brown. This print is pencil signed in plate as well as in pencil to the lower right margin with date ‘’50’,’ titled in pencil to the lower center, and indistinctly marked “50” in pencil to the lower left, along with an additional small illegible mark. Presented behind glass in a wooden frame with double matting of ivory and mint green; reverse side wired for hanging, bearing the remnants of a Milton Okrent Company tag, a Cincinnati furniture location where the artwork was originally framed. Please see item 17CIN604-099 for a serigraph by Bradford in which this master printmaker used the same screen to produce a different image.

Born in Toronto, Bradford was raised in Los Angeles. He used the G.I. Bill to study at the Chouinard and Jepson Art Institutes in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Art Institute. In the 1950s he was a founding member of the Western Serigraph Institute, and his work has been shown in group and solo exhibition nationally. Please see link below for additional information.

Condition

- some wear to finish on frame along edges and to corners.

Dimensions

- framed, visible image size: 17.25″ × 13.75″.

Item #

17CIN604-100