Of Ants and Men
Object number2011.3.4
Artist
Abe Weiner
(1917 - 1993)
Date1947
MediumPaper
Credit LineGift of Kim Weiner
DescriptionMulticolored print on beige card stock. Features artistic rendering of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which can be seen through two dead and hollow trees with cobwebs; green grass with yellow flowers on bottom right of one of the trees.Dimensions25.5 x 19.5 in. (64.8 x 49.5 cm)SignedArtist signature on bottom right corner of image, "A. WEINER".
Black ink signature below print on right “Abe Weiner / 16/500”.
MarksText below image, center "Of Ants and Men / by Abe Weiner".
Black ink stamp on back, bottom right corner, "This is an authentic limited first / edition supervised by Abe Weiner / exclusively for prints limited."
Historical NotesThe original painting was exhibited in "Fifty Most Promising Young Painters" Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950. 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
Related institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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