1990s Ellen Gunn Screenprint Still Life of Petite Fleur Suite II

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Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- )
Title: Petite Fleur Suite II
Medium: Screenprint
Image size: 11 x 14 inches
Sheet size: … Read more Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- )
Title: Petite Fleur Suite II
Medium: Screenprint
Image size: 11 x 14 inches
Sheet size: 18 x 20 inches
Signature: lower right
Edition: 375 This one: 144/375

This beautiful print is a still life of flowers. It is a screenprint on heavy paper. It is in very good, never-framed condition with no flaws to note. It is signed in the lower right and numbered in the lower left.
Ellen Gunn was born in Rockville Center, New York, in 1951. From an early age both her father, William Neal Gunn, and her uncle, Howard Arnold, gave her extensive artistic training. Both men were noted watercolorists, and her father was also proficient in oil painting and design. Until her fifteenth year, Ellen studied the piano as well, attending a school whose purpose was to train concert pianists; but when she realized that she would have to give up one pursuit in order to master the other, she chose to master art.

Gunn continued her studies in art with Pat Steir and J. C. Suarez at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, where she graduated with honors in 1973. The year after, she studied at the School of Visual Arts also in New York. Looking for a change from New York, Gunn moved to California in 1976. In 1980 she studied etching and printmaking at the Kala Institute in Berkeley, and from 1981-82 she studied printmaking exclusively at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.

Gunn's numerous corporate and public collections containing her works include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Alpha Pacific Corporation, the American Honda Motor Company, Briarmead Studios, Martin-Marietta, Northrop Aviation, Prudential Insurance, State Farm Insurance, and the Hilton Hotel Corporation. Her larger exhibitions include Artexpo New York, Artexpo Los Angeles, Triton Museum (San Jose, California), Sterling Vineyards (Calistoga, California), Chilmark Gallery (Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts), TM Artworks (San Francisco), Designer Showcase (Palo Alto), the Incorporated Gallery (New York City), Sotheby's Auction House, Gallery de Tours (Carmel, California), and the Following Sea Gallery (Honolulu). See less