"A State of Mine" - 1976 Surrealist Lithograph by Jim Crabb

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"A state of mine" - 1976 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper

1976 surrealist lithograph on paper titled "A state of mine" … Read more "A state of mine" - 1976 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper

1976 surrealist lithograph on paper titled "A state of mine" by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). This piece resembles a surreal ocean or landscape, with various biomorphic objects floating in the sky. Some of them resemble coral, growing vertically. Others look like microscopic organisms, with stringy tails, and some appear figural. There are areas of white space interspersed throughout the composition, looking like cut outs. The image is printed in a warm purple ink.

Titled, numbered, signed, and dated along the bottom edge:
A state of mine 7/20 J CRABB '76

Presented in a new light blue mat.
Mat size: 16"H x 12"W
Paper size: 15"H x 11.25"W
Impression size: 4"H x 3"W

Jim Crabb is a painter and printmaker, was born in Merced, California. He received his M.A. in printmaking and B.A. in painting at San Jose State, and an A.A. in Fine Arts at San Jose City College. He studied with Geoffrey Bowman, John Hunter, Will Nelson, Al Barella, and Bruce Conner.

Crabb's work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including American Drawings in Black and White: 1970-1980, at the Brooklyn Museum, the Twenty-first National Print Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, as well as at the Redding Museum of Art, the San Jose Council of the Arts, the Basel Art Fair in Switzerland, 1976, and Georgia State University. Public collections holding Crabb's work include the Brooklyn Museum in New York, Wichita Art Museum in Kansas, the Redding Art Museum, the Crocker Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California. See less