1981 "Trellis" Robert Kushner Abstract Expressionist Diptych Lithograph

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Artist: Robert Kushner - American (1949- )
Title: Trellis
Date: 1981
Media: Lithograph
Dimensions: Diptych – Each sheet and image: … Read more Artist: Robert Kushner - American (1949- )
Title: Trellis
Date: 1981
Media: Lithograph
Dimensions: Diptych – Each sheet and image: 28 x 20 inches (56 x 20 inches total)
Publisher: Barbara Gladstone Editions
Printer: Solo Press
Edition: 16 plus proofs. This one: Printers Proof II
Signature: Signed lower right in pencil

This diptych lithograph is by the noted artist Robert Kushner (1949- ). The print was created and published in 1981, during the height of the Pattern and Decoration movement of which Kushner was a main proponent. It is signed in the lower right, numbered (Solo Press Imp. II) lower center and titled “Trellis” in the lower left, all in pencil. There are three archival hinges joining the two sheets. The print is in very good, never-framed condition with no flaws to note.

Robert Kushner’s work has been exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe and Japan since 1975 when one of his paintings was included in the Whitney Biennial. In 1984, Robert Kushner was the subject of one-person exhibitions at both the Whitney Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum, and in 1987, a mid-career summary of his work was organized by the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art.

A monograph on Robert Kushner’s three decades of artistic work, entitled Gardens of Earthly Delights, with text by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy and Holland Cotter, was published by Hudson Hills Press in 1997. A compilation of Kushner’s recent paintings on Japanese screens as well as canvas, written by Michael Duncan, was published by Pomegranate in 2006.

In 2004, Robert Kushner installed two monumental mosaic murals, 4 Seasons Seasoned, at the 77th Street and Lexington Avenue subway station. In 2010, an 80 foot long marble mosaic, Welcome, was installed at the new Raleigh Durham International Airport in North Carolina.

Robert Kushner’s works are in the permanent collections of museums around the world: The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The National Gallery of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Tate Gallery, London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, The Denver Art Museum, Galleria degli Ufizzi, Florence, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, Museum Ludwig, St. Petersburg, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. See less