Sappho 2010 60x54 - Huge Mural Size

Year2010

Hand SignedUpper Right on Verso 

Condition Excellent 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromArtist 

Provenance / HistoryThis work is one of the last wholly abstract expressionist based paintings. Sappho was many things which included being a lyrical poet. She inspired many young musicians and artists to include the melodic, enthusiastic embrace of nature , especially in the spring when all of life is new and tenuous....painters painted outside for inspiration and where all the senses could experience the moment....similarly, poets revealed their deepest inner worlds even in formally constructed verse. The painting is a metaphorical equivalency for youthful hope. 

Story / Additional InfoThis work has been included in several exhibits in New York, the Grossman Gallery at Lafayette College, the Seraphin Gallery in Philadelphia and the Havu Gallery in Denver. Critics have noted its lyricism as being connected to the first works shown by this artist in NYC, referred to by Gerrit Henry (Art International Magazine) as "Lyrical Abstraction. 

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LID159587

Ed Kerns - United States

Art Brokerage: Ed Kerns American Abstract Expressionist Artist: b. 1945. Ed Kerns (February 22, 1945) is an American abstract artist and educator. Kerns studied with the noted Abstract-Expressionist painter, Grace Hartigan and through the elder artist came to know and work with many artists of that generation including, Phillip Guston, Willem de Kooning, James Brooks, Ernest Briggs, Richard Diebenkorn and Sam Francis. Born in 1945 in Richmond, Virginia, Kerns started painting at a young age. He attended the Richmond Professional Institute, receiving his BFA in 1967. He went on to the Maryland Institute, where he studied with painter Grace Hartigan. Here, Kerns received the Hoffberger Fellowship and graduated with an MFA in 1969. Kerns first gained exposure in 1972, when he was commissioned by art collector Larry Aldrich to paint 100 paintings over the course of the year as gifts.That same year, Kerns had his first solo art show at the AM Sachs Gallery in New York. Over the course of the 1970s and 80s, Kerns formed a close partnership with the Rosa Esman Gallery and exhibited ten solo shows there. Of his work in the late 1970s and early 80s, gallery coordinator Judith Stein says, "He works slowly, creating no more than ten large paintings a year. His media are acrylic, sand, and thread, the last used to stitch together sections of canvas. Often plywood or upsom board is used as support." Listings wanted.