Jesse Reichek (American, 1916-2005), Untitled, 1966 Lithograph
Jesse Reichek (American, 1916–2005) was a painter, printmaker, and educator associated with the postwar Bay Area art scene. Born in Brooklyn, he studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago and later at the Académie Julian in Paris before joining the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. Reichek exhibited with Betty Parsons Gallery in New York during the 1950s and 1960s and developed a distinctive abstract language of compact, glyph-like forms, often repeating and recombining the same shapes within grids and sequential arrangements. In 1966 he worked at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, where lithography allowed him to explore these changing relationships between positive and negative space across related images. He continued painting after stepping away from the commercial gallery world in the early 1970s, and his work is held in major museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Untitled, 1966, lithograph in black on off-white wove paper by Jesse Reichek. The composition arranges twenty-four compact abstract emblems in a four-by-six grid, each constructed from variations of solid black masses, white reserve, open contours, nested forms, and parallel lines. The work was produced during Reichek’s 1966 activity at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, when he was developing several serial projects built around sets of twenty-four related lithographic images; Tamarind editions from these projects were generally issued in editions of 20 with nine additional Tamarind impressions. This impression is inscribed in graphite “Tam Imp Reichek 66” along the lower margin and bears Tamarind and printer blindstamps; “Tam Imp” identifies an impression retained by the workshop outside the numbered edition. Sheet measures approximately 41.75 x 29.5 inches. The sheet shows light toning and minor handling with old tape remnants along the upper verso and slight edge wear; image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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Jesse Reichek (American, 1916–2005) was a painter, printmaker, and educator associated with the postwar Bay Area art scene. Born in Brooklyn, he studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago and later at the Académie Julian in Paris before joining the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. Reichek exhibited with Betty Parsons Gallery in New York during the 1950s and 1960s and developed a distinctive abstract language of compact, glyph-like forms, often repeating and recombining the same shapes within grids and sequential arrangements. In 1966 he worked at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, where lithography allowed him to explore these changing relationships between positive and negative space across related images. He continued painting after stepping away from the commercial gallery world in the early 1970s, and his work is held in major museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Untitled, 1966, lithograph in black on off-white wove paper by Jesse Reichek. The composition arranges twenty-four compact abstract emblems in a four-by-six grid, each constructed from variations of solid black masses, white reserve, open contours, nested forms, and parallel lines. The work was produced during Reichek’s 1966 activity at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, when he was developing several serial projects built around sets of twenty-four related lithographic images; Tamarind editions from these projects were generally issued in editions of 20 with nine additional Tamarind impressions. This impression is inscribed in graphite “Tam Imp Reichek 66” along the lower margin and bears Tamarind and printer blindstamps; “Tam Imp” identifies an impression retained by the workshop outside the numbered edition. Sheet measures approximately 41.75 x 29.5 inches. The sheet shows light toning and minor handling with old tape remnants along the upper verso and slight edge wear; image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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41.75 x 29.5 in
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