Description: Rare and early modernist lithograph of a fleeing family. "Flight". 1939 By 20th c. American artist Herman J. Cherry (1909-1992). Although Cherry's biography is too accomplished and expansive to include here, this is a small capsule biography: Herman Cherry was a painter, muralist, teacher, and sculptor of mobiles and constructions. He was a non-objective abstract painter who participated in all five of the artist-curated Stable Gallery exhibitions in Manhattan between 1953 and 1957 and who received his first New York solo exhibition at Stable in 1955. In the early 1930s, he was a student first of the synchromist painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright at the Art Students League of Los Angeles and next of the regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York. Afterward, Cherry managed a small gallery within a Hollywood bookshop where he gave Philip Guston his first exhibition and where his own first solo was later held. Having transitioned from social realism to cubist-inspired abstraction in the 1940s, Cherry joined with the artists who later became collectively known as the New York School in establishing a style that later became known as Abstract expressionism. Key members of this group were Cherry's friends Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning. Hand pulled lithograph on paper.Pencil signed Herman J. Cherry.Signed and dated in the plate Herman J. Cherry '39.Edition 24/50.Measures 19 1/4" x 25" sheet.Good condition with light mat burn.Cherry's early lithographs are extremely hard to come by with very few coming to market. Don't miss this opportunity to acquire one from this American master. CHECK MY FEEDBACK AND BUY WITH CONFIDENCE!Visit My eBay Store for more great items!Please check out all my items listed on ebay.Shipping can be combined on multiple purchases.
Price: 795 USD
Location: Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
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Artist: Herman J. Cherry
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Signed By: Herman J. Cherry
Image Orientation: Landscape
Size: Large
Signed: Yes
Title: Flight
Material: Ink, Paper
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Region of Origin: California, USA
Framing: Matted
Subject: Figures
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1939
Item Height: 19 in
Style: Modernism, Social Realism
Features: Limited Edition, Numbered
Production Technique: Lithography
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Unit Quantity: 1
Item Width: 25 in
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
