Frederick O’Hara (American, 1904–1980), Antelope Priest, 1961 Color Lithograph
Frederick O’Hara was an American painter, printmaker, and teacher whose experimental approach to printmaking developed during his years in New Mexico. After learning woodcut and monotype methods from Adja Yunkers, he studied lithography with Elmer Schooley and began transferring the mottled surfaces of his monotypes into lithographic form. O’Hara often allowed pooled ink, stencils, and irregular printed textures to guide the image, an approach he carried into the color lithographs he produced at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1961 and 1962. His work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hammer Museum, and the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Antelope Priest, 1961, is a four-color lithograph on white Nacre paper, printed by Garo Antreasian and published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. A tall ceremonial figure rises within a cool blue-gray field, its pale olive mask enclosed by a dark reddish-brown arch; irregular white reserves give the body a weathered, almost mineral surface. Inscribed in pencil “Tamarind Impression” lower left and signed “Frederick O’Hara” lower right, with the Tamarind Impression and printer blindstamps in the lower margin. This impression comes from the nine Tamarind impressions produced in addition to the numbered edition of ten. Sheet measures approximately 24.125 × 14.75 inches; image measures approximately 20 x 10. Condition shows light handling creases and edge undulation, a few small spots, and two pieces of tape on the upper verso; image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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Frederick O’Hara was an American painter, printmaker, and teacher whose experimental approach to printmaking developed during his years in New Mexico. After learning woodcut and monotype methods from Adja Yunkers, he studied lithography with Elmer Schooley and began transferring the mottled surfaces of his monotypes into lithographic form. O’Hara often allowed pooled ink, stencils, and irregular printed textures to guide the image, an approach he carried into the color lithographs he produced at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1961 and 1962. His work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hammer Museum, and the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Antelope Priest, 1961, is a four-color lithograph on white Nacre paper, printed by Garo Antreasian and published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. A tall ceremonial figure rises within a cool blue-gray field, its pale olive mask enclosed by a dark reddish-brown arch; irregular white reserves give the body a weathered, almost mineral surface. Inscribed in pencil “Tamarind Impression” lower left and signed “Frederick O’Hara” lower right, with the Tamarind Impression and printer blindstamps in the lower margin. This impression comes from the nine Tamarind impressions produced in addition to the numbered edition of ten. Sheet measures approximately 24.125 × 14.75 inches; image measures approximately 20 x 10. Condition shows light handling creases and edge undulation, a few small spots, and two pieces of tape on the upper verso; image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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Dimensions
24.125 x 14.75 in
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