Joseph Zirker, Untitled III, 1988

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Artist: Joseph Zirker (American, born 1924)
Title: Untitled
Year: 1988
Medium: Color monotype
Paper: Arche 88
Size: 42 x 30 … Read more Artist: Joseph Zirker (American, born 1924)
Title: Untitled
Year: 1988
Medium: Color monotype
Paper: Arche 88
Size: 42 x 30 inches
Signature: Signed and dated in pencil by the artist
Printer: The artist
Condition: Very good
Frame: Unframed

About the artist.

Joseph Zirker is a noted American modern artist, educator, lecturer that was born on August 13, 1924 in Los Angeles, California, United States. As a young man he Served with United States Navy, from 1944 to 1946.
He attended the University of California in Los Angeles 1946—1947. He got a bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Denver in 1949 and a master of Fine Arts, University Southern California, 1951.
He was a printer and research fellow at Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, 1961—1963. Lecturer University Southern California, 1963. Instructor Los Angeles County Art Institute, 1964, San Jose City College, California, 1966—1980.
Lecturer Stanford University, 1981—1983, 1986—1990. All along his carer, he had numerous acclaimed shows in the U.S and abroad. He is known worldwide as an innovator in monotype and printmaking. His works are represented in private and public collections, both in the USA and worldwide, including:

Grunwald Collection, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, California,
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Free Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
June Wayne, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, California
Tamarind Archives, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, California,
Charles White, Los Angeles, California
Stanley Freeman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
Ben Smith Collection, Los Angeles, California
Martin Gluck Collection, San Diego Museum & La Jolla Art Center, San Diego, California
Jerry & Carol Goldsmith, Los Angeles, California
Michael Blankfort Collection, Los Angeles, California
Ann and Frank Lobdell, Palo Alto, California
De Saisset Art Gallery & Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
Young Gallery, San Jose, California
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, California
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Klein, Chicago, Illinois
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson, Atherton, California
Graham Gund Collection, Los Angeles, California
College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho
Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, California
International Paper Corporation, New York, New York
University Art Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Nisson Motors, Executive Offices, Tennessee
Glen Alps, Seattle, Washington
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Evelyn Georges, Portland, Oregon
Centrum Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium
Koninklijk Museum Voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
Central Federal Savings, New York, New York
Tandem Computers, Cupertino, California
American Nevada Corporation, Hendersen, Nevada
Raychem Corporation, Menlo Park, California
Morgan Guarantee & Trust Company, New York, New York
Louisiana Art Museum, Denmark
Art/Bank, U.S. State Department, Washington D.C.
National Academy of Design, New York, New York
Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, California
The National Gallery, Washington D.C.
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Green Library, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Charles Randall Dean Collection, New York, New York See less