Description

In 1979 Bob Stanley produced a series of Beets silkscreen prints that, according to the portfolio description "makes brilliant use of the medium to specifically unite the popular image with the fine art serigraphic process. The result is a portfolio of color, black and white, and hand colored prints that are unique and particularly individual in concept and presentation." During periods in his career Stanley was described as a "Pop" artist.  Silkscreen prints are often associated with the Pop Art movement because the process lends itself so well to the application of bold outlines of flat color.

Stanley liked using found objects as a basis for his art, but it usually took the form of photographs, postcards, coloring books, and even trash.  We think Stanley just couldn't resist the beautiful, almost sensual outline of the commonplace beet.  We think they look great in a kitchen.

Details

• Bob Stanley (American, 1932-1997)
• Beets
• Silkscreen print on paper
  
• Signed, dated and numbered 76/175 in pencil
  
• 30 1/2 " x 22 1/2" (overall) 29" x 21" (sight)
• Newly framed under UV plexiglass

About the Artist

From his 1997 NY Times obituary:

Mr. Stanley was born in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1932. After attending Columbia University for two years, he received a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1953 from Oglethorpe College in Atlanta and studied art at the High Museum of Art there. Back in New York, he first worked in collage. In the early 1960's, he began to base his paintings on images clipped from newspapers and magazines, following the example of Pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, who would become his brother-in-law.

Enlarged and often rendered in two equally saturated colors (red and green, for example), Mr. Stanley's images could border on the abstract or be powerfully explicit. His preferred subjects, including rock stars, sporting events and pornography, always seemed to grate against the pretenses of high art. In the late 1960's Mr. Stanley started using his own photographs, basing paintings on images of tree branches or the ground, and also using pictures of life-drawing models at the School of Visual Arts, where he was a faculty member for 16 years.

Mr. Stanley had his first solo show at Paul Bianchini in 1965 and thereafter exhibited regularly in New York City and Europe. His most recent exhibition, held last month at the Mitchell Algus Gallery in Manhattan, completed its run the day he died. His work is represented in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan; the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Bob Stanley died of cancer at age 65 in 1997.