1471756

Rex Clawson, Serigraph, Piano Player #1471756

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Rex Clawson, Serigraph, Piano Player #1471756
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Artist: Clawson, Rex

Title: Untitled

Year: 1978

Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil

Edition: 150

Paper Size: 22" x 30"



Rex Clawson (1929 - )




Rex Clawson was born in 1929 in Dallas Texas. As a child his favorite artist was Jon Witcomb, an illustrator for the womens' magazines his mother subscribed to. In his teens he read "Lust for Life" and discovered Van Gogh, Gauguin and the Impressionists. All of his early paintings reflect these artists.



In the late 1940's, Clawson won the "Texas Fellowship to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center." There he became acquainted with modern art. Picasso and Braque were his greatest influences, along with Walt Kuhn, whose paintings were displayed at the art center. From there he traveled to Mexico to study and paint for a year at Morallia, and the art and culture of Mexico were a great influence on him. Rufino Tamayo was his favorite artist.



He returned to Texas and in 1951 won first prize at the annual exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. In 1952 he was exhibited at the Knoedler Gallery NYC, in a show of Texas Artists. Thus encouraged, he moved to New York where he began to show regularly at the galleries. He had his first one man show at the Edwin Hewitt Gallery in 1955. In 1956 "Vogue" magazine reproduced a Clawson painting of a cat. Lincoln Kristen saw it and commissioned the artist to paint a cat for him.



In 1963 the Royal Athena Gallery ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1978</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:22</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:30</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Rex Clawson, Serigraph, Piano Player</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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