John Grillo (American, 1917-2014), Untitled, 1964 Color Lithograph
John Grillo (American, 1917–2014) was a painter, printmaker, and educator associated with the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in California and New York during the years following World War II. After studying at the California School of Fine Arts, where a new generation of artists was developing an improvisational approach to abstraction, he moved to New York and continued his training with Hans Hofmann. In 1964, Grillo received a Ford Foundation grant to work at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, where he produced the ten-part portfolio Illuminations of Time and Space within the workshop’s collaborative artist-printer program. He later taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for more than two decades. His work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Untitled, 1964, color lithograph from zinc in red, orange, blue-green, and dark blue on white Arches paper. A large, roughly worked red form dominates the lower left, balanced by a compact dark-blue mass at upper right and a smaller group of concentric circles beside it. Orange and brown passages spread across the ground within a blue-green border, interrupted by splattered ink, scraped marks, white reserves, and small floating shapes. Printed by Thom O’Connor and published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in an edition of 20, with nine additional Tamarind impressions. Inscribed in graphite at lower right “Tam imp,” signed “Grillo,” and dated “64,” with the Tamarind and O’Connor blindstamps. “Tam imp” identifies an impression retained by the workshop outside the numbered edition. Sheet measures approximately 26 x 19 inches. The sheet shows light toning with minor handling and a small brown stain at the lower-left verso. Image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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John Grillo (American, 1917–2014) was a painter, printmaker, and educator associated with the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in California and New York during the years following World War II. After studying at the California School of Fine Arts, where a new generation of artists was developing an improvisational approach to abstraction, he moved to New York and continued his training with Hans Hofmann. In 1964, Grillo received a Ford Foundation grant to work at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, where he produced the ten-part portfolio Illuminations of Time and Space within the workshop’s collaborative artist-printer program. He later taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for more than two decades. His work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Untitled, 1964, color lithograph from zinc in red, orange, blue-green, and dark blue on white Arches paper. A large, roughly worked red form dominates the lower left, balanced by a compact dark-blue mass at upper right and a smaller group of concentric circles beside it. Orange and brown passages spread across the ground within a blue-green border, interrupted by splattered ink, scraped marks, white reserves, and small floating shapes. Printed by Thom O’Connor and published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in an edition of 20, with nine additional Tamarind impressions. Inscribed in graphite at lower right “Tam imp,” signed “Grillo,” and dated “64,” with the Tamarind and O’Connor blindstamps. “Tam imp” identifies an impression retained by the workshop outside the numbered edition. Sheet measures approximately 26 x 19 inches. The sheet shows light toning with minor handling and a small brown stain at the lower-left verso. Image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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26 x 19 in
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