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You are bidding on a beautiful monotype assemblage by Joseph Zirker(American 1924-) Assemblage material consists of handmade paper from blue jeans. (Farmer jeans ca. 1980.) Signed lower center edge of assemblage: Zirker. Assemblage size; 18 inches high by 18 inches wide approximate. Framed under glass 22.75 inches high by 22.75 inches wide. Provenance: Farmer collection Washington, DC.
Condition: Excellent original condition. No defects. Clean, bright, beautiful vibrant colors.
Biography
Joseph Zirker, NA is the recipient of a 2004 Pollock-Krasner award and an elected member of the National Academy of Design. He is known worldwide as an innovator in monotype and printmaking. His works are represented in private and public collections, both in the USA and abroad.
He holds the degree of MFA from the University of Southern California, where he taught printmaking. He has lectured at Stanford University, San Jose City College and Portland State University. His workshops have been held at Drake University, Rice University, Cooper Union School of the Arts and in several art academies in Belgium and the Netherlands. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art.
Joseph Zirker, NA
Education
University of California at Los Angeles 1943-44, 1946-47
University of Denver 1948-49, B.F.A.
University of Southern California 1949-51, M.F.A.
Tamarind Lithography Workshop - printer fellowship 1962, 63, 64
Tamarind Lithography Workshop - research fellowship Fall, 1964
Teaching Experience
University of Southern California 1951, 63
Hollywood Art Center, Los Angeles, California 1951
Chouinard Art Center, Los Angeles, California Summer, 1963
Los Angeles County Art Institute (Otis) Evenings, 1963-64
San Jose City College, San Jose, California 1966-80
Fall semesters only, 1980-84
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Summer Sessions, 1984, 85
Stanford University, Stanford, California Spring quarter, 1981
Summer quarters, 1982, 83, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
Web Site
http://www.smithandersen.com
Selected Solo Exhibitions
San Jose State College, 1968
Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California, 1972, 74, 78, 81, 87*, 91*, 93*, 95, 97, 99*, 01*, 04*, 05*
California Palace of the Legion of Honor (Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts),
San Francisco, California, 1974
De Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, 1975
Merz Gallery, San Jose, California, 1976
Rubicon Gallery, Los Altos, California, 1981
Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, Oakland, California, 1984
Espace Latino Americain, Paris, France, 1987*
Centrum Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium, 1989
Kunstgalerie de Greene Weiden, Lampernisse, Belgium, 1990
Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1990
Quincy College, Quincy, Illinois, 1990
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1993
De Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California,, 2005*
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, Nov. 2005 – Feb. 2006
Twenty Year Survey Exhibition: 1962-1982*
Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California, 1982*
Klein Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1982
Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1983
University Art Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1983
Sierra Nevada Museum, Reno, Nevada, 1983
College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho, 1984
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 1984
Rogue Gallery, Medford, Oregon, 1986
Two-Person Exhibitions
Misch Kohn and Joseph Zirker, Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California, 1976
Michael Mazur and Joseph Zirker, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington D.C., 1979
William Weege and Joseph Zirker, Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1982
Bob Nugent and Joseph Zirker, Fiberworks, Berkeley, California, 1983
Helen Frederick and Joseph Zirker, G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, 1984
John Anderson and Joseph Zirker, Art Attack Gallery, Boise, Idaho, 1985
Three-Person Exhibitions
“Vacuum Formed Paper” with Charles Hilger and Charles Strong at Sacred Heart,
Menlo Park, California, 1978, 88
“Vacuum Formed Paper” with Charles Hilger and Charles Strong at Sonoma State,
Sonoma, California, 1979
Joseph Zirker, Hunt Stonem and Maria Neefjes, Artemis International Gallery, Hong Kong, 1992
Selected Invitational Group Exhibitions
“New Dimensions of Lithography” (Tamarind Lithographs), University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, California, 1964*
Southern California Printmakers, Los Angeles, California, 1964
Capper Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1968
“California Printmakers,” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, 1971
“Monotypes in California,” Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, California, 1972*
“San Francisco Bay Area Printmakers,” Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1973
“Bay Area Monotypes,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California, 1974
“California Printmakers,” Van Stratten Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1974
“Artist s Proof - The Multiple Image,” Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,
Downtown Center, San Francisco, California, 1976
“Contemporary Monotypes,” Contemporary Graphic Center, Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Santa Barbara, California, 1976
“Recent Acquisitions,” Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 1977, 84
“Silver and Ink: Recent Acquisitions for the Prints and Photography Collection,” Oakland Art Museum,
Oakland, California, 1978
“New Ways with Paper,” National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington D.C., 1977-78*
“West Coast Print Show,” Impressions Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1978
“Contemporary American Monotypes,” Impressions Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, and
Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California, 1979
“American Monotypes: 100 Years,” Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, New York, 1979*
“Prints: New Points of View,” Traveling Exhibition by WAAM, 1979-80*
First Print Invitational, Hayward State, Hayward, California, 1979
Handmade Paper Invitational, Jewish Community Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1979
“Handmade Paperworks of the Seventies,” Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1979
“The Colored Print,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 1980
“True Paper,” Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California, 1980*
“Paper/Art,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 1981*
“California Collage,” College of the Siskiyous, Weed, California, 1981*
“Paperworks,” A National Invitational at the University of Idaho, Moscow and Caldwell, Idaho, 1982
“Works on Paper,” Philadelphia Print Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1982
“Sculptural Paper,” Brookfield, Connecticut, 1983
“Monoprints,” Bluxume Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1983
“Fine Graphics - 3EP Press,” Gumps, San Francisco, California, 1983
“Paper,” Fine Arts Center of Tempe, Tempe, Arizona, 1984
“Monotypes,” Weintraub Gallery, New York, New York, 1984
“Paperworks: A National Invitational,” Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum,
Spokane, Washington, 1984*
“Paper, Canvas and Glass,” Gallery Mack, Seattle, Washington, 1984*
“Eighth British International Print Biennial,” Bradford, England, 1984*
“Connoisseurship of Fine Prints,” De Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara,
Santa Clara, California, 1984
Group Exhibition, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1984
“3EP, Ltd., Selected Prints,” Helen Lundhurst Gallery, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, California, 1984
“New Acquisitions,” The Achenback Foundation for the Graphic Arts,
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, 1985
“Twelve Contemporary Printmakers,” Miller/Brown Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1985
“Tenth Anniversary Exhibition,” Nimbus Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 1985
“Monotypes,” Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington D.C. 1985
“Contemporary American Monotypes,” Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, 1985*
“Contemporary Monotypes: Six Masters,” De Saissset Gallery and Museum,
University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, 1985*
“Western States Print Invitational,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 1985
“Selected Monotypes,” Galleri Kulturtorvet, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1986
“Process/Prints,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California, 1986-87
“Selected from the Bay Area,” Lever/Meyerson Galleries, New York, New York, 1986
“Christmas Exhibition,” Lever/Meyerson Galleries, New York, New York, 1986
“Paper Works,” The Art Corridor, Sacred Heart Schools, Menlo Park, California, 1987
“Twenty Times Two: Prints Today,” A.N. Bush Gallery, Salem, Oregon, 1987
“California Paper Works,” Redding Museum and Shasta College, Redding, California, 1987
“Eleven Northern California Printmakers,” Centrum Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium, 1987
“Abstraction: Works on Paper,” Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, California, 1987
“The Anderson Collection: Two Decades of Graphics 1967-87,” The Stanford Museum of Art,
Stanford, California, 1987*
“Unique Impressions,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, 1988
“50 Years of Art,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, 1988
“Serious Play: Experiments in Contemporary Printmaking,” San Jose University,
San Jose, California, 1988
“Paper and Image,” California State University, Hayward, California, 1988
“Grafiek 1989 vit het Frans Masereel Centrum,” Kasterlee, Belgium 1989
Opening Exhibition, University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1989
Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, Oregon, 1989 (Northwest Print Council)
“California Monotypes,” Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1991
“Made in California,” Marvin Seline Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1991
Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, Alaska, 1991 (Northwest Print Council)
“International Graphics,” Alden Biesen, Belgium, 1991
“One over One,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California, 1991
“A Decade of Paper,” Sylvia Cordish Fine Art, Baltimore, Maryland, 1991 (Pyramid Atlantic)
“A Decade of Paper,” Montpelier Cultural Center, Laurel, Maryland, 1991 (Pyramid Atlantic)
“Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: 3 Decades,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California, 1992
“Bay Area Greats,” Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, California, 1992
“16th Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition,” Emporia State University, Kansas, 1992*
“Jonge Amerikaanse Grafiek vit het Frans Masereel Centrum,” Royal Museum of Fine Arts,
Antwerp, Belgium 1992
The National Academy of Design, New York, 1992, 1993*, 1995*, 1997*, 1999*, 2001*, 2003*, 2005*
“Creativity at the Press,” Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California, 1994
“Abstract Contemporary Prints” (from the Keating Collection), Watkins Gallery,
The American University, Washington, D.C., 1994*
“Smith Andersen Gallery 25th Year Celebration,” Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California, 1994
“The Continuous Line: Circles in Contemporary Artwork,” Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, California, 1994
“Alternative Prints, ’94,” University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1994
“A Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection,” Triton Museum of Art,
Santa Clara, California, 1995*
“Monotypes Enre Nous,” Gallery 40, Temse, Belgium, 1995
“Abstraction: Monotype/Monoprint,” University Museum, Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Pennsylvania, 1996*
Centrum Frans Masereel exhibition at Centre “SaNostra” in Palma, Spain, 1996
“Homenaje a Mendéz,” a virtual portfolio, University Art Museum, Arizona State University,
Tempe, Arizona, 1998
“The Print is Cast,” Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California, 1999
Monotype Invitational, Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois, 1999
Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, California, 2000
Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, California, 2000
Flanders Graphics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2000
“An American Focus,” The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection at the California Palace of the
Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, 2000
Marquette University, Haggarty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2000
“Veerle Rooms in Dialogue,” KBC Tower, Antwerp, Belgium, 2002
Prints from Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, California, 2003
Selections from Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, California, 2003
“Expressive Impressions: Three Decades of American Abstract Prints,” Cummer Museum of Art &
Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida, 2003
“California Abstract Expressionists,” International Print Center New York, New York, NY, 2003
“For the Love of It,” Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California, 2003
“Recent Press Projects,” Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, California, 2003
Juried Exhibitions
“21st Bradley National Print & Drawing Exhibition, “ Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, 1987*
“8th International Triennial Exhibition,” Berlin, German Democratic Republic, 1987*
“9th International Triennial Exhibition,” Berlin, German Democratic Republic, 1990*
“23rd Bradley National Print & Drawing Exhibition, “ Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, 1991*
“International Print Exhibition,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 1997
Traveling Exhibitions
International Institute of Experimental Printmaking, 1975-76
Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Cleveland Art Institute, Cleveland, Ohio
Sacred Heart School, Menlo Park, California
California State University at Hayward, Hayward, California
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Lester Gallery, Inverness, California
“New American Monotypes,” Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition, 1978-80*
Towson State University, Baltimore, Maryland
University of Northern Colorado, Greely, Colorado
Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, Alaska
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, Florida
Frederick S. Wright Gallery, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, California
“Paper as Medium,” Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition, 1978-81*
Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Concord College, Athens, West Virginia
Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, Florida
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Davidson Art Center, Middletown, Connecticut
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Fresge Art Center, East Lansing, Michigan
Sordoni Art Center, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
Trisolini Gallery, Athens, Ohio
“New American Paperworks,” 1982-85*
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
The Shukosa Art Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
The Fine Arts Center of Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
Exhibition Hall, Central Library, Kiemyung University, Taegu, The Republic of Korea
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
The Metropolitan Museum, Manila, The Philippines
National Museum, Republic of Singapore
Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana
Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Lee Hall, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
The Stamford Museum, Stamford, Connecticut
University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Maryland
“The New Explosion/Paper Art,” 1982-83*
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York
CDS Gallery, New York, New York
Byers Museum, Evanston, Illinois
“Selected Monotypes,” 1984-86*
Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Santa Cruz Museum, Santa Cruz, California
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Art Collections, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
“Modern American Printmaking,” 1985-86*
Amerika-Haus in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hannover, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Köln, Munchen
“One-of-a-Kind,” 1984-85*
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
A.I.R. Gallery, London, England
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
Crawford Gallery, St. Andrews, Scotland
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Midland Group, Nottingham, England
“The Art of Collaborative Printmaking,” Smith Andersen Editions
The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, 1998
De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, 1999
Patrick R. Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art*, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2000
Artist in Residencies
Centrum Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium, 1985, 87, 89, 90
University of Nebraska, College of Fine Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, 1988
Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, 1993
Works in the Following Collections (Selected List)
Grunwald Collection, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, California, 1953
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 1955
Free Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1955
June Wayne, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, California, 1963
Tamarind Archives, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, California, 1963
Charles White, Los Angeles, California, 1967
Stanley Freeman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California, 1963
Ben Smith Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1963
Martin Gluck Collection, San Diego Museum & La Jolla Art Center, San Diego, California, 1963
Jerry & Carol Goldsmith, Los Angeles, California, 1963, 73
Michael Blankfort Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1963
Ann and Frank Lobdell, Palo Alto, California, 1969, 73
De Saisset Art Gallery & Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, 1975, 86, 90
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco,
California, 1975, 85
Young Gallery, San Jose, California, 1976
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, California, 1976
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 1977, 83, 85
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Klein, Chicago, Illinois, 1978
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson, Atherton, California, 1978, 81
Graham Gund Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1979
College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho
Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, California, 1982, 89
International Paper Corporation, New York, New York, 1982
University Art Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1983, 89
Nisson Motors, Executive Offices, Tennessee, 1983
Glen Alps, Seattle, Washington, 1984
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 1984, 85
Evelyn Georges, Portland, Oregon, 1983
Centrum Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium, 1985, 87, 89, 90
Koninklijk Museum Voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium, 1985, 87, 89, 90
Central Federal Savings, New York, New York, 1987
Tandem Computers, Cupertino, California, 1987
American Nevada Corporation, Hendersen, Nevada, 1987
Raychem Corporation, Menlo Park, California, 1988
Morgan Guarantee & Trust Company, New York, New York, 1990
Louisiana Art Museum, Denmark, 1991
Art/Bank, U.S. State Department, Washington D.C., 1991
National Academy of Design, New York, New York, 1992
Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, California, 1992, 1997
The National Gallery, Washington D.C., 1996
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 1998
Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1993, 97, 98
Green Library, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 2001
Charles Randall Dean Collection, New York, New York, 2002
Listed in
Who’s Who in American Art
Elected
Associate Member, The National Academy of Design, 1992
Academician, The National Academy of Design, 1994
Grant
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 2004-2005
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Condition: Excellent original condition. No defects. Clean, bright, beautiful vibrant colors.
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