Aerial Target 1962 28x22

Year1962

Hand SignedHand Signed 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with GlassFramed With Glass With Wood Silver Frame 

Purchased fromPrivate Collector 

Story / Additional InfoDuring the war the artist served in the Air Force in the Pacific, where his duties involved close study of aerial maps, an activity that lastingly influenced his work. His densely worked canvases often had an overhead perspective, whether they suggested an aerial view of a fantasy terrain or a bomb target, some molecular life-form under a microscope or a mass of hieroglyphs on a stretched animal skin. Toward the end of his life, many of his seemingly abstract paintings were based directly, and in detail, on maps. 

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Burt Hasen - United States

Art Brokerage: Burt Hasen American Artist: b. 1921-2007. Burt Hasen was born in New York and trained in Paris. When he returned to New York, Hasen was an active member of the 10th Street Scene, which played a significant part in the growth of American art and in the diversification of styles that are evident in the art world of today. Hasen, a founding member of the March Gallery, like many of his contemporaries, is still under known. A long time professor at the School of Visual Arts, his work is also included in many major collections among them the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Academy of Design and the British Museum. Burt Hasen's work teeters between magical realism and surrealism. Thematically there is a fantastical element throughout his work. This is more mysterious and alluring than dark and menacing. His etchings are populated by figures in varying states of metamorphosis; transitioning from human to animal, singularities to pluralities, background to foreground, inanimate to animate. Listings wanted.