Lot 1244: Ruth Gikow, (1913-1982), "Untitled", artist's proof print, Sight image 11"H x 14" W, framed.

Name: Ruth Gikow, (1913-1982), "Untitled", artist's proof print, Sight image 11"H x 14" W, framed.
Brand: Harlowe-Powell Auction Gallery
SKU: b0a947e1de
Price: 70 USD

Est: $150 USD - $200 USDSold:

Harlowe-Powell Auction GalleryCharlottesville, VA, USOctober 15, 2011

Item Overview

Description

Ruth Gikow
(1913-1982)
"Untitled"
artist's proof print
Signed lower right and marked artist's proof lower left. Ruth Gikow was born in the Russian Ukraine and moved to New York City with her parents at age five. Gikow studied art at Cooper Union Art School and with artist Raphael Soyer. She worked for the Works Project Administration for a number of years, where her projects included painting murals in Rockefeller Center, the children's ward of Bronx Hospital, and Riker's Island. Gikow also cofounded the American Serigraph Society. In a 1964 interview with Harlan Phillips of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Gikow explained, "we were very interested in reaching the masses, and I think this was one of the reasons why it seemed so exciting. And the reason why easel painting seemed so stuffy was because, you know, who would see it? -- so let's say, you know. And not only that -- the idea even seemed a little old-fashioned, you know, going back to the original icon, you know, putting it into a frame, and so forth and so on. And one of the reasons why I got interested in the whole serigraph thing was because I felt that it sort of answered the bill in two ways -- one was that you reached the masses, and the masses, in their turn, would buy and pay you back, you see. Because nobody could afford to buy an easel painting, and so they would buy it, and so we put out prints and sell them for $10, $20 apiece, and then in turn they could, you know, buy them and in that way could support us. That was one of the reasons why I got interested in the serigraph business... But again, what happened was that we -- my demands weren't very much, but I think I made a living out of prints for about, I think, almost a year - from six months to a year. And making enough money to be able to sort of pay my little rent and so forth and so on. And then the whole thing kind of, kind of filtered out and disappeared because people who bought from department stores weren't interested in that kind of art. And the audience -- and then I discovered something else, that the same audience that bought my prints had enough money to buy my gouaches, or to buy my oil paintings which I eventually began doing, and it was the same audience. And the business of the masses was just, it was a dream, they weren't ready. "
After a period working in commercial art Gikow resumed her fine art career after her marriage to fellow artist Jack Levine.
Sight image 11"H x 14" W, framed.

Artist or Maker

Ruth Gikow

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Auction Details

October 15, 2011 Modern Auction

Harlowe-Powell Auction Gallery

October 15, 2011, 10:00 AM EST

2109 India Road, Charlottesville, VA, 22901, US

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