Hunt Slonem - 2021 Exhibition

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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 Foun‐ dation, New York A very good impression of this scarce print.

HUNT SLONEM Exhibition of new works

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 Koon‐ ing then added the word Rainbow to the image and signed and numbered 125 pieces which is this edition.

Summer 2021 Nantucket gallery



HUNT SLONEM American, b. 1951 Hunt Slonem was born in Maine in 1951. He studied at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine; Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN; and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University in Louisiana. In 1973 he moved to New York City, and since 2011 has been living and working in a 25,000 square foot studio in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. His studio, filled with mid-19th century antiques acquired at antique fairs and flea markets, is a veritable museum. These objects both satisfy his hunger for collecting and serve as a source of inspiration for his own work. Slonem’s work has long been influenced by his travels to such exotic locales as Hawaii, Nicaragua, Mexico and India. He is best known for his Neo-Expressionistic paintings of animals, butterflies, and birds in particular, all of which act as a sort of leitmotif. Canvases are filled with these objects, which are reproduced over and over in an act of repetition that has been prominent in his work for over 30 years now. His paintings are layered with thick brushstrokes of vivid color, often cut into in a crosshatched pattern that adds texture to the overall surface of the painting. Slonem has had a long, illustrious and varied career. He has been commissioned to paint large-scale murals and has collaborated on product design with major retailers, including a stoneware collection for Tiffany & Co. and a

custom–painted A5 sedan for Audi. Since 1977, the artist has had more than 350 exhibitions at prestigious galleries and museums internationally. Globally, more than 100 museums include his work in their collections, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Slonem is the subject of a number of monographs, including “Hunt Slonem, An Art Rich & Strange,” which features text by Donald Kuspit, and his work has been featured in countless prestigious publications. Hunt Slonem divides his time between New York City and Louisiana, where he owns two plantation homes on the historic register.


Double Bunny

oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches


Totem Hurry

oil on canvas 50 x 70 inches


New Line

Oil and acrylic and diamond dust on canvas 48 x 48 inches


Untitled

oil on canvas 48 x 48 inches


Green Gathering

paint on an LED panel 54 x 46 inches


Hare Hare Hare

oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches


Green Pastures

oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches


Summer Rain (Ascension Silver)

oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches


Naranja

oil and acrylic and diamond dust on canvas 48 x 48 inches


Eight and One Half

oil on panel 39.5 x 31.5 inches


Blue Knot I

oil and acrylic and diamond dust on canvas 30 x 36 inches


Hutch

oil on panel 32 x 25.5 inches


Orange Abe

oil on panel 18 x 14 inches


Cockatoo Whisper

oil on canvas 62 x 54 inches


Siblings

oil on canvas with diamond dust 24 x 24 inches


Pink Hutch

Oil, resin, acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 inches


Constellation

oil on canvas 48 x 48 inches


Felipe

oil on panel 14 x 11 inches


Mystic Jays

oil on canvas 48 x 72 inches


Nantucket

oil on canvas 40 x 60 inches


Mario

Maya

Lavander Bunny

blown glass sculpture 15.5 x 7 inches

blown glass sculpture 20 x 8.5 inches

blown glass sculpture 11.5 x 7 inches


Ackly

Freya

Nixie

blown glass sculpture 20 x 8.5 inches

blown glass sculpture 20 x 8.5 inches

blown glass sculpture 11.5 x 7 inches



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