1970s "Kotzebue Woman" Claire Fejes Fauvist Figurative Limited Edition Print For Sale

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1970s "Kotzebue Woman" Claire Fejes Fauvist Figurative Limited Edition Print

Name: 1970s "Kotzebue Woman" Claire Fejes Fauvist Figurative Limited Edition Print
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"Kotzebue Woman" Limited Edition Print by Claire Fejes - 156/500

Actual Size of Image: 9"w x 12"h

Claire Fejes 1920-1998 … more "Kotzebue Woman" Limited Edition Print by Claire Fejes - 156/500

Actual Size of Image: 9"w x 12"h

Claire Fejes 1920-1998 - Born in New York to immigrant parents from Austria and Poland, Fejes’ artistic life was forged by the Depression years. She received her art training through museum-based Works Progress Administration (WPA) arts projects in Manhattan, intending to work as a sculptor. Married in 1942, she moved with husband Joe Fejes to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1946 – from New York’s Bronx to a log cabin in a sub-arctic frontier town. She abandoned sculpture as impractical in rural Alaska, turning to oils.

For a decade, Fejes painted on a small kitchen table near the cabin’s wood stove: self-portraits, nudes, the neighbors, scenes from the valley and woods. Local Athabascan and Inuit women sat for her, and Fejes grew fascinated with their stories and the subsistence life they described far from town.

One winter, she said, it was so cold, she painted in lined boots, long underwear, pants and two sweaters. In the spring, she realized all her paintings had stoves in them. In 1958, she made a life-changing decision. Packing her painting supplies, a tent, and some food, she traveled to Sesaulik, an Inupiat whaling camp on Alaska’s arctic coast. The experience was transforming. Upon her return she produced twenty oils, dubbed the Sesaulik 20, in a rush of creativity, working with a palette knife on masonite. The experience defined her style – unplanned, swift, and emotionally intense – based on a deep immersion in her subject. The Sesaulik 20 captured interest beyond Alaska. Seattle’s Frye Art Museum invited Fejes to mount a one-woman show, and its good review led to a solo exhibit at the Roko Gallery in New York.

From the kitchen table to the living room, then to a spacious studio overlooking the Chena River, Claire Fejes’ work space was a world away – no phone, no long lunches, few visitors – just hours on her feet, working up to three palettes at a time. She might finish a canvas in a day, or keep it where she could see it for years, waiting to see what else it needed. Bach, Vivaldi, and Beethoven in the background; painting always first. She painted and she wrote. Fejes wrote regularly in journals from childhood until her death, publishing four books about her travels, painting, and life in Alaska. Claire and husband Joe began the Alaska House Art Gallery in 1963.
“This is my inspiration. I don’t feel like painting in New York or any other place. This is where I’m inspired by the people and the land. This is my inspiration here. It just comes pouring out of me when I’m here. When I’m any other place, I don’t even want to paint.” less

Dimensions: 11ʺW × 0.1ʺD × 15ʺH

Styles: Expressionism; Realism

Art Subjects: Figure

Frame Type: Unframed

Period: 1970s

Country of Origin: United States

Item Type: Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned

Materials: Paper; Printmaking Materials

Condition: Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections

Color: Blue

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Condition Notes: Image is great shape, Edges of paper a bit yellowed. Image is great shape, Edges of paper a bit yellowed. less

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