The Shell

Object number2011.3.7

Artist Abe Weiner (1917 - 1993)

Date1965

MediumPaper

Credit LineGift of Kim Weiner

DescriptionMulticolored print on beige card stock. Features artistic rendering of a city in center of rocks: top swirled, bottom base sharper with jagged edges. Another rock formation on bottom left corner.Dimensions25.5 x 19.5 in. (64.8 x 49.5 cm)
SignedBlack ink signature below print at bottom right "Abe Weiner / 59/500".
MarksText below image, in center "The Shell / 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 NotesPart 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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