Bruce Conner (American, 1933-2008), Landscape, 1965 Lithograph
Bruce Conner (American, 1933–2008) was a Kansas-born artist associated with the San Francisco Beat scene and later recognized as a major figure in postwar American assemblage, film, drawing, printmaking, and conceptual art. Known for dark, densely layered imagery and for challenging conventional ideas of authorship, signature, and reproduction, Conner worked across media in ways that blurred the boundaries between image, object, and mark-making. His work is held in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Landscape, 1965, is a lithograph from an aluminum plate in black ink on white Arches paper, printed by Bernard Bleha and published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. CConner packs the center of the sheet with a tangled form that rises above a narrow band of water. Its unstable contours shift between vegetation and a looming creature, with the small eye-like circle at right making the scene feel watchful rather than pastoral. Inscribed in graphite “Tam Imp” and “1289” on the verso, with Conner’s inked thumbprint and the Tamarind and Bernard Bleha printer blindstamps. The inscription identifies this as one of nine Tamarind impressions, separate from the numbered edition of 20. Sheet measures approximately 16 x 16 inches. Condition shows light overall toning with a faint prior mat line, minor handling marks, and old mounting-tape remnants at the upper verso corners; lower edge is deckled and the image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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Bruce Conner (American, 1933–2008) was a Kansas-born artist associated with the San Francisco Beat scene and later recognized as a major figure in postwar American assemblage, film, drawing, printmaking, and conceptual art. Known for dark, densely layered imagery and for challenging conventional ideas of authorship, signature, and reproduction, Conner worked across media in ways that blurred the boundaries between image, object, and mark-making. His work is held in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Landscape, 1965, is a lithograph from an aluminum plate in black ink on white Arches paper, printed by Bernard Bleha and published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. CConner packs the center of the sheet with a tangled form that rises above a narrow band of water. Its unstable contours shift between vegetation and a looming creature, with the small eye-like circle at right making the scene feel watchful rather than pastoral. Inscribed in graphite “Tam Imp” and “1289” on the verso, with Conner’s inked thumbprint and the Tamarind and Bernard Bleha printer blindstamps. The inscription identifies this as one of nine Tamarind impressions, separate from the numbered edition of 20. Sheet measures approximately 16 x 16 inches. Condition shows light overall toning with a faint prior mat line, minor handling marks, and old mounting-tape remnants at the upper verso corners; lower edge is deckled and the image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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16 x 16 in
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