Description: Mervin Jules, Signed Original Stile Life Color Woodcut 1961Painting very good condition no damages no scratchers and nice very good colorspainting framed size is 26.5" x 13.5" Print size is 21.5 x 8.5"print is ander glass Mervin JulesAlso Known asMervin M. JulesBornBaltimore, MarylandDiedProvincetown, Massachusettsborn Baltimore, MD 1912-died Provincetown, MA 1994Active inNew York, New YorkNationalitiesAmericanMervin Jules attended Baltimore City College in 1930 and received a degree from the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts in 1934. The following year he went to New York City and studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Jules’s work was first exhibited in 1935. He was artist-in-residence at Smith College from 1945 to 1946 and a professor from 1946 to 1969. In 1969 he became chairman of the art department at the City College of New York. In addition to teaching and exhibiting his work, Jules published articles about art. He had a studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Joann Moser Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America (Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1997)Mervin Jules saw his paintings and prints as social commentary, and was genuinely excited by “people and what they do.” A 1945 critic described him as an “artist with genuine social conscience … an effective spokesman for liberal ideas.” (Watson, “Artist’s Show Gives Evidence of Greater Freedom as Painter,” Washington Post, April 22, 1945) At the Art Students League in New York, he studied the European masters Honoré Daumier and Francisco Goya, to learn how they used caricature to confront unjust social conditions. Some found his early work hard to take, and one critic even referred to it as “brash expressionism and over-charged emotional reactions.” (Devree, “Time Mellows Mervin Jules’ Work, Seen in One-Man Show at ACA Gallery,” New York Times, September 30, 1954) Nevertheless, Jules published his prints, exhibited his paintings widely, and held prestigious teaching positions at Smith College and at the City College of New York.
Price: 295 USD
Location: Beverly Hills, California
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: Mervin Jules
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Color: Multi-Color
Date of Creation: 1950-1969
Material: Woodcut & Block
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: flower
Print Surface: Paper
Type: Print
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Year of Production: 1960s
Width (Inches): 8.5"
Height (Inches): 21.5"
Style: Realism
Features: Framed, Signed, Framed signed and numbered
Production Technique: Woodblock Printing
