listed artist original Carl Pappe "Taxco"

Description: listed artist original Carl Pappe "Taxco". Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.in 1929 he worked in stage design for Paramount Studios in New York but was laid off due to the economic recession. "If I am going to die of hunger it won't be here", he said. Amidst the Depression, Carl Pappe worked crafting repairs to the gold leaf of the ceilings of theaters while refinishing furniture and sail boat decks in Philadelphia and Boston. Pappe visited Mexico City in 1934.Acquainted with many interesting and influential people during his four years in Mexico City, Pappe heard lectures on art given by Diego Rivera and shared the same Swedish doctor with his friend Frida Kahlo, Rivera's wife. He was a great admirer and friend of the sculpture Isamu Noguchi. He also worked to become an apprentice to muralist Jose Orozco, visiting his studio often. As a personal tour guide to Amelia Earhart upon her arrival via solo flight, he took her to the studio of Diego Rivera as well as the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon outside of Mexico City. Pappe's friendship with Carlos Merida, Juan O'Gorman and Ruffino Tamayo brought them to Taxco in an effort to escape the politics and distractions in the Capital He left such distractions and settled in Taxco, Mexico's silver mining capital in the Sierra Madre Mountains. There he was able to focus entirely on art and all that delighted him, inspired by the love and beauty that is Mexico. According to Abraham Davidson's essay,CARL PAPPE: The Late Works(1995), "Pappe had not seen anARTnewssince about 1945, had never watched television and heard radio for the last time when listening to an Amos 'n Andy program." Davidson further explains the abstract works as having "a controlled delicacy and sureness of draftsmanship, which compel our close attention and admiration. His pieces do not comprise a composition of diverse parts or contain a focus." Another series inspired by Paul Klee'sMagic Squaresof 1922-1930 are like going up or down scales of music and according to Pappe they are put together so they "work as a whole on all sides, forget the individual squares and feel what the whole thing says to you". Carl Pappe was a fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where his work has been shown. Several of his woodcut prints of Taxco street scenes are among the collections at the Library of Congress. An exhibit of his abstract pastels was held in 1994 by the Government of Guerrero as a commemorative to his fifty five years as an artist in Taxco. In 1995 over eighty of his abstracts were shown at the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia.beautiful poece of work. Can be sold with Frame.or without. Price varied with frame 22 15 add $20.00 for frame and glass

Price: 460 USD

Location: Seattle, Washington

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