“DOUBLE IMAGE”- SHELDON C SCHONENBERG -Lithograph 1970's - Signed & Numbered - 10/375

“DOUBLE IMAGE”-

SHELDON C SCHONENBERG - Lithograph - Signed & Numbered - 10/375

16 x 26 inches.    

LIMITED EDITION HAND PULLED & DRAWN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH, NUMBERED & HAND SIGNED BY ARTIST. From the retired Mitch Moore Gallery Inc, NYC. Unmatted, never framed or displayed. Image area is in very good frameable vintage condition. 

ARTISTS BIO: SHELDON C. SCHONEBERG

AMERICAN, 1926-2012

S.C. (Shelley) Schoneberg is a nationally and internationally recognized artist, having worked and studied the world over. Pastel drawings and oil painting are his major works which are collected and commissioned. He is a creator of monumental murals (including frescos, as Genesis i the National Museum of Mexico, D.F.), formal and informal portraits, character and ethnic studies, landscapes, maritime studies, tapestry, bronze sculpture, original lithographs, etchings, giclees, and posters. He has exhibited in more than 220 exhibitions, including 82 one-man exhibitions. Schoneberg is a full Professor of Art awarded at University of New York, New Paltz, and University of Southern Maine, where he founded the Art Gallery in Gorham. Moving permanently to their summer home in Maine in 1991, he taught drawing and painting at The University of New England for 10 years. 

Further Biographical Context

Born in 1926, Sheldon Schoneberg was largely inspired by the 1950's. In the Post-War period the lens of modernism was focused, in terms of international attention, on developments in New York City. The Second World War had brought many prominent creatives to the city in exile from Europe, leading to a significant pooling of talent and ideas. Important Europeans that came to New York and provided inspiration for American artists included Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers and Hans Hoffmann, who between them set the grounds for much of the United States' significant cultural growth in the decades thereafter. The 1950s can be said to have been dominated by Abstract Expressionism, A for of painting that prioritized dramatic brushstrokes and explored ideas about organic nature, spirituality and the sublime. Much of the focus was on the formal properties of painting, and ideas of action painting were unified with the political freedom of the United States society as opposed to the strict nature of the Soviet bloc. Influential artists of the Abstract Expressionist Generation included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Frank Kline, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still and Adolph Gottlieb. It was a male dominated environment, though necessary reassessment of this period has underlined the contributions of female artists such as Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Louise Bourgeois, amongst others.

CHRONOLOGY

Born in Oak Park, Illinois, 1926; Family  moves to Beverly Hills; Attended El Rodeo De Las Aguas, Beverly Hills High; Choinard Art Institute, Los Angeles; University of Southern California, B.G.A. cum laude, M.F.A., 1951; Academia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy; 3rd Yr. Certificate, Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, Mexico, 1952, Graduate Studies.

Instructor at Santa Monica College, 1947; Hollywood Art Center School, 1950; Academic Rank of Full Professor of Art, University of New York New Paltz, 1964, and the University of Southern Maine, Gorham, 1967.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland

Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Long Hospital, University of California, San Francisco

Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California

Public Library of Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico

Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva

Kui Lee Foundation, Honolulu, Hawaii

University of Southern Maine, Gorham, Maine

Riveredge Foundation, Calgary, Canada

Hellenic-American Union, Athens Greece

Betzalel National Museum Jerusalem, Israel

Fisk University Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee

Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles, California

Anne Frank House Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland

Santa Sophia Cathedral, Los Angeles, California

Y.M.C.A. Gothenburg, Sweden

Fresno Art Center, Fresno, California

The Snooty Fox, Shepherds Market, London

Marshall Hale Memorial Hospital, San Francisco

National Museum of Mexico, Mexico, D.F., etc.

Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1926, he is known throughout the world for his sumptous pastels of female nudes, flowered women, exotic gypsies, costumed musicians, vagabonds, and lovable young women and children in all their youthful glory. Formal art training began at the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, and continued at University of Southern California (B.F.A. Cum Laude, M.F.A. 1951), U.C.L.A., Academia di Bell Arti, Rome, Italy, and Universidad Michocana, Morelia, Mexico. He holds the academic rank of Full Professor, University of New York, New Paltz, and University of Maine, Gorham. One-man exhibitions include Galerie “Seine38,” Paris, France, Harrison Galleries, Vancouver, B.C.Canada, Galerie Du Carlton, Cannes, France, Universita Popolare Di Padova, Italy, Kunsthandle Monet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Gallery Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, Ca., Intercontinental Artist Guild. Freeport, Grand Bahamas Island, Galerie Del Cisne, Madrid, Spain, Fisk University Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, Anne Frank House Gallery Amsterdam, Brooks Memorial Art Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, Galerie Modern Nordisk Kunst, Gothenburg, Sweden and others throughout the United States.