Lithograph in colors on wove paper, 1976 Sheet Size: 35 1/4” x 24 1/2” inches Signed and numbered 9/125 in pencil, lower right Printed by the Rainbow Art Foundation, New York A very good impression of this scarce print.
OVER THE TOP
All-American exhibition
Willem de Kooning donated this image titled “Devil on a Keyboard” to the Rainbow Art Foundation in June 1976. The Rainbow Art Foundation is an organization which helps young and new printmakers. The R.A.F. has informed us that this is indeed a historical piece since de Kooning himself worked on it. The image was made into a nine color lithograph print in an edition of 70 signed and numbered prints. De Kooning then added the word Rainbow to the image and signed and numbered 125 pieces which is this edition.
July 2020 Naples gallery
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FORWARD by CR 2020 has certainly been a time of change, reflection and now new beginnings. Creating “Over The Top” has been the guiding spirit of celebrating the past, the pause to think about what it means to be American, and looking to the future of who we are today and who we will become tomorrow. Walking the gallery hallways of the private collectors was the first moment, over a year ago, since walking the museums of New York or reading art history books with the surveys of seminal American Art, that I began to retrace my own roots in American Art and Decorative Arts from the days of being a Deerfield boy. My first memories of patriotism and what it means to be an American started during my prep school days. Located in the small town of Historic Deerfield, a Rockefeller Foundation community restoration grant, I would walk along middle path and down the streets carrying my books past the museum houses. It wasn’t until I ventured inside that I became fascinated with the American spirit of hard work and ingenuity. I began to understand what it meant to be a part of the early beginnings of the building of America and the determination of the American spirit not only for survival, but the creation of a new civilization.
At 15, writing my American history thesis; “How the American Eagle on Federal Furniture created Nationalism,” I would never have dreamed, at 53, I would be rescuing American Flags and other found objects that are associated with American, blood sweat and tears; giving them new purpose and meaning. Walking the scrapyards of today looking for “Forgotten Beauty Found” versus the rarefied museums is quiet a juxtaposition to my past. However, like the title of my Junior thesis, “A town with a past that speaks to the present,” my thoughts of the past speaking to me through the mountains of perceived rubbish, I see beauty, inspiration and hope for the future. “OVER THE TOP” comes to life through the vision of Chris Quidley in his personal quest to share the creative voices of all his artists and those specifically sharing the their own interpretation of all things intrinsically American. For me, it was from the ruins of an old box buried deep within a warehouse that had not seen the light of day in nearly a quarter century, that the original WWI US Bond poster was recovered that I knew it was time feel this country in a new way. During a time of quarantine, during a time
when a nation was fighting a new war, an unseen war, that in its own way was “Over the Top,” it didn’t take but a second to know that an art rescue would take place. In self quarantine, surrounded by my seemingly endless friends, found objects collected over decades, I began to unite them with the rare tattered vintage poster. Rusted cogs and sprockets made from American steel, perhaps the same steel that served our country, part of a tire tread representing the creation of the American rubber industry and our Gulf Coast roots, a primitive American frame to hold the assemblage together, and yes, even a torn and weathered American Flag to lend its comfort and hope, all united and ready to serve. This one-of-a-kind, never before, never again, exhibition celebrates all our American heroes. From the beginning of this nation until today, we are a country whose ingenuity and inspiration has guided us from darkness into the light. With open eyes and open hearts anything is possible. Come join Quidley & Company as they open their doors to share art from the past and present. Art that represents greatness in all walks of life, the OVER THE TOP exhibition welcomes everyone to come find their own place in American history and what it means to be uniquely American.
Fitz Hugh Lane Baltimore Harbor, c. 1850
oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches
Alfred Stieglitz The Steerage, c. 1908-1915
photogravure 13 x 10 inches
Andrea de Zerega Rock Creek Park, Washington DC, c 1900-1920
oil on board 16 x 23 inches
Reginald Marsh Lower Manhattan, 1929
watercolor 14 x 20 inches
Albert Rosenthal George Washington Bust with Roman Crown, 1899
graphite drawing 14 x 16 inches
Jean-Baptise Dubuc Pair of George Washington Mantel Clocks, 1805-1820
gilt bronze 19 x 14 inches
CR Round One, 2019
mixed media assemblage 38 x 38 inches
CR Star Spangled All American POP ART GOLF BALL, 2020
mixed media assemblage 48 x 48 inches
CR Blood, Sweat & Tears, Muhammad Ali, 2016
mixed media C-Print 48 x 68 inches
CR Bobby Jones - Follow Through
mixed media with charcoal and pencil 40 x 60 inches
Anthony Ravielle Bobby Jones, as commissioned by Bobby Jones at Augusta National, 1966
pencil on paper 5 x 10 inches
CR Over the Top, 2020
mixed media assemblage 34 x 30 inches
CR Industrial America, 2019
mixed media assemblage 32 x 44 inches
Jojo Anavim Flag (Black, Gold, Silver)
Collage, Acrylic and Diamond Dust on Canvas 48 x 72 inches
Jojo Anavim This is America
Vintage Collage with Mixed Media 48 x 60 inches
Kevin Champeny Loaded
mosaic 48 x 72 inches
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