Decay and Restoration

Object number2011.3.9

Artist Abe Weiner (1917 - 1993)

Date1949

MediumPaper

Credit LineGift of Kim Weiner

DescriptionMulticolored print on beige card stock. Features artistic rendering of a dead hollow piece of tree--possibly bottom of broken trunk--with cobwebs and moss. Sprouting from center to right is a fully blossomed red rose.Dimensions25.5 x 19.5 in. (64.8 x 49.5 cm)
SignedArtist signature on lower right corner of image, as if carved into wood, "A.W."

Pencil signature below print at bottom right "Abe Weiner / 50/750 ".
MarksText below image, in center "Decay and Restoration / by Abe Weiner".
Historical NotesOriginal artwork was exhibited in "Painting in the United States," Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh, 1949. Part of a collection of Abe Weiner art and artist materials. Abe Weiner was born in Pittsburgh in 1917. After graduating from the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1941, he joined the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Weiner worked and lived in Pittsburgh his whole life, but his work was exhibited across the country, most notably in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cochran Gallery. In 1950, Weiner was named one of the “Fifty Most Promising Painters in the United States” by Life Magazine.

Related institution Carnegie Mellon University

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