Property of the Nevada Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Collections
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Various Artists
Kent Bicentennial portfolio: Spirit of Independence
- Estimate
- $10,000 - 15,000
$12,500
Lot Details
The complete set of 12 prints in colors, comprised of six lithographs, three screenprints, two lithograph and screenprints and one screenprint with collage additions, on various papers, the full sheets and with full margins,
1975
various sizes
all signed, some dated and titled, and all variously numbered from the edition of 125 in pencil (there were also 25 artist's proofs), published by Lorillard, A Division of Loews Theatres, Inc., New York, all generally in very good condition, all unframed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Including:
Will Barnet, Waiting; Colleen Browning, Union Mixer; Audrey Flack, Fourth of July Still Life; Red Grooms, Bicentennial Bandwagon; Joseph Hirsch, The Boston Tea Party; Robert Indiana, Liberty '76; Alex Katz, Washington; Jacob Lawrence, The 1920's... The Migrants Arrive and Cast their Ballots; Marisol (Escobar), Woman's Equality; Larry Rivers, An Outline of History; Ed Ruscha, America, Her Best Product; and Fritz Scholder, Bicentennial Indian
These 12 artists were commissioned by Lorillard Company to create prints for a portfolio commemorating the United States' bicentennial. The works were created in response to the question "What does independence mean to me?" Completed in 1975, and extensively toured through 1976, Lorillard then gifted over 100 portfolios to museums and institutions across the country.
Will Barnet, Waiting; Colleen Browning, Union Mixer; Audrey Flack, Fourth of July Still Life; Red Grooms, Bicentennial Bandwagon; Joseph Hirsch, The Boston Tea Party; Robert Indiana, Liberty '76; Alex Katz, Washington; Jacob Lawrence, The 1920's... The Migrants Arrive and Cast their Ballots; Marisol (Escobar), Woman's Equality; Larry Rivers, An Outline of History; Ed Ruscha, America, Her Best Product; and Fritz Scholder, Bicentennial Indian
These 12 artists were commissioned by Lorillard Company to create prints for a portfolio commemorating the United States' bicentennial. The works were created in response to the question "What does independence mean to me?" Completed in 1975, and extensively toured through 1976, Lorillard then gifted over 100 portfolios to museums and institutions across the country.
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