1997 Squeak Carnwath Aquatint Print "Intelligence of a Three Year Old"

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Artist: Squeak Carnwath American (1947- )
Title: Intelligence of a Three Year Old
Date: 1997
Media: Color Sugarlift And Soapground … more Artist: Squeak Carnwath American (1947- )
Title: Intelligence of a Three Year Old
Date: 1997
Media: Color Sugarlift And Soapground Aquatint With Hardground, Scrape And Burnish
Dimensions: Plate/image: 24 x 24 inches
Dimensions: Sheet: 34 x 31 inches (864 x 787 mm)
Dimensions: Framed: 35 x 32 inches
Signature: Signed, dated lower right in pencil
Publisher: Paulson Press
Printer: Renée Bott
Edition: 30. This one: 11/30

This print is by the noted artist, Squeak Carnwath (1947- ). The print and backing mat are in very good condition. It is floating, framed in a simple metal frame with Plexiglas. The frame and Plexiglas are in good condition with some light scratches. Below is some information about the artist, but there is much more online.

About the artist:

Squeak Carnwath (born 1947 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary American painter and arts educator. She is a Professor Emerita of Art at University of California, Berkeley.

After high school, Carnwath studied art in Illinois, Greece, and Vermont before attending the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she studied ceramics, painting, and sculpture with Viola Frey, Art Nelson, Jay DeFeo, and Dennis Leon. She received her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1977. She taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1982 until 2010, having previously taught at California College of Arts and Crafts and Ohlone College.

She currently has a studio in Oakland, California, where she has lived and worked since 1970.

Carnwath has a distinctive and recognizable style which combines diaristic and personal elements with universal or existential themes. Her paintings "combine text and images on abstract fields of color to express sociopolitical and spiritual concerns." (King, Sarah (1998). "Squeak Carnwath at David Beitzel". Art in America. Retrieved 11 April 2009.)

Carnwath has described herself ironically as a "painting chauvinist" due to an abiding preference for that medium, although she is also an accomplished printmaker and has created sophisticated Jacquard tapestries, artist books, and mixed media works in addition to her oil and alkyd works on canvas.

Soon after graduating with an MFA, Carnwath began to receive recognition for her work. She received a Visual Arts Fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a SECA Art Award in 1980 from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which included a solo exhibition at the museum. The exhibition featured a large sculptural installation titled My Own Ghost. Works on paper related to the My Own Ghost series were also included.

Following the exhibition, Carnwath focused on paintings and works on paper. Early 1980s artworks included interior scenes, stylized figures, and everyday objects like cups and vases, with titles often painted into wide borders. Her work was exhibited at Goldeen Gallery in San Francisco and Van Straaten Gallery in Chicago.

In 1994, Carnwath was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Carnwath was awarded the Lee Krasner Award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in its 2018-19 grant cycle.

She was inducted into the National Academy of Design along with 15 others in the Class of 2019. National Academicians are nominated and selected by over 430 living members, and the honor recognizes each artist's contributions to American culture.


Selected solo exhibitions

2019: Squeak Carnwath: How the Mind Works, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

2016: Everyday is Not the Same: Squeak Carnwath's Prints and Papers, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR

2016: Crazy Papers and Sister Objects, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC

2015: What Before Comes After, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY

2011: Squeak Carnwath: All Thought and Pleasure, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

2009: Squeak Carnwath: Painting Is No Ordinary Object, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

2004: Squeak Carnwath Being Human: Paintings & Prints, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

2000: Squeak Carnwath, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

1998: Squeak Carnwath: Seeing in the Dark, California Museum of Art, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA

1986: Squeak Carnwath: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL

1984: Squeak Carnwath: Paintings, Getler/Pall/Saper Gallery, New York, NY

1982: Squeak Carnwath, Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1980: Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award 1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA


Selected group exhibitions

2019: Building a Different Model: Selections From the di Rosa Collection, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA

2018: Rise Up! Social Justice in Art From the Collection of J. Michael Bewley, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

2017: Color and Pattern, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA

2014: Building Forward, Looking Back, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

2012: The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2011: Fifty Years of Bay Area Art – The SECA Awards, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA

2010: American Printmaking Now, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (traveling)

2006: The Missing Peace Project: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Fowler Museum, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (traveling)

2001: Pay Attention…I hope you learned your lesson: Works from the Collection of Laila Twigg-Smith, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

1997: The Magic of Numbers, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

1997: Bay Area Art from the Morgan Flagg Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA

1995: Abstraction, The Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda

1991: Herstory: Narrative Art by Contemporary California Artists, January 12 – March 24, the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

1987: The Third Western States Biennial, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX (traveling)

1982: From the Sunny Side: Six East Bay Artists, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1982: Emerging Northern California Artists, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA


Public collections
Carnwath's work is represented in the following public collections:

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Bowdoin College Art Museum, Brunswick, ME
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
List Visual Art Center, M.I.T., Boston, MA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Shrem Museum, University of California, Davis, CA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
The Rutgers University Fine Arts Collection, Brunswick, NJ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

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