Jackson Hole Gallery Walkthrough 2022

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Under the Tang China experienced a period of great cultural flowering, remarkable for its achievements across all areas of the arts and sciences. The tolerance of the Tang Imperial Court to outside influence and the free movement along the East- West trade route known as the Silk Road saw major urban centres become thriving cosmopolitan cities, with the Chinese capital, Chang’an (modern Xian) expanding to reach a population of over one million.
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<br>In keeping with centuries of tradition, funerary rites remained very important. A separate government department existed with responsibility for overseeing the manufacture of funerary wares. Officially there were limits on the number of grave goods and restrictions on the size of the objects which could accompany the deceased, according to rank – the highest ranked officials were meant to have a maximum of 90 figurines, no more than 30cm tall while members of the Imperial family were allowed several hundred up to about one meter tall. However, these rules were frequently broken. The deceased’s relatives believed they could improve their ancestor’s status in the afterlife by providing mingqi in excess of necessity, thereby ensuring their own good fortune. Tang Dynasty figurative ceramics share particular characteristics. The forms are animated and life-like, the subject matter covers all aspects of social and ritual life and the scale of the figures was reasonably small with the exception of some magnificent larger works commissioned for the tombs of the elite. Figures of courtiers and entertainers, polo players and the exotic travelers who now regularly arrived in the Chinese cities with their great pack camels became common place, illustrating the cosmopolitan nature of the times. The variety of forms tells us that craftsmen had scope for individual innovation and were not controlled by rules regarding particular styles. Now the funerary wares spoke not only of power and military strength, but also of the sophistication and intellectual achievements of the deceased.

CHINESE

RICHARD SERRA - Cape Breton Horizontal Reversal No. 16 - litho-crayon on two sheets of handmade paper - 19 3/4 x 55 7/8 in.

RICHARD SERRA

<div><font face=Lato size=3>Andy Warhol’s "Marilyn #30" (1967) is part of the artist’s landmark Marilyn portfolio, one of his most celebrated and sought-after series. From an edition of 250 (this work numbered 138/250, with 26 artist’s proofs), the portfolio is represented in major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. </font></div>
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<br><div><font face=Lato size=3>Based on a publicity still from the 1953 film Niagara, Warhol’s Marilyns epitomize his fascination with celebrity, mass media, and the power of the reproduced image. Each print in the series was created with five screens—one carrying the photographic likeness and four for areas of color—deliberately layered with bold hues that are at times slightly off-register. This misalignment heightens the tension between glamour and artifice, echoing the fragile brilliance of Marilyn Monroe’s own persona. </font></div>
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<br><div><font face=Lato size=3>As one of Warhol’s defining bodies of work, the "Marilyn" prints remain icons of Pop Art, merging Hollywood stardom with silkscreen’s mechanical repetition to create a timeless meditation on fame, desire, and image. </font></div>

ANDY WARHOL

GEORGE RICKEY - Space Churn with Squares - kinetic sculpture in stainless steel - 35 1/2 x 20 x 13 in.

GEORGE RICKEY

Alexander Calder's Rouge Mouille (Wet Red) features a background of red circles, some dispersing like explosions, creating a sense of energetic expansion, and others running downward as if streaming trails of a firework display. This animated backdrop is adorned with numerous opaque round balls, predominantly black, but interspersed with striking blue, red, and subtle yellow spheres. The strategic placement of the colorful spheres against the explosive reds captures the awe and spectacle of a fireworks show, transforming the painting into a visual metaphor for this dazzling and celebratory event. The artwork resonates with excitement and vibrancy, encapsulating its ephemeral beauty in a static medium.

ALEXANDER CALDER

© 2023 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ALEXANDER CALDER

Zigzag, Sun, and Crags, painted in 1972, recalls the early morning hour of June 9, 1922 when the young seafaring adventurer Sandy (Alexander) Calder was awakened on the deck of the H. F. Alexander by the intense beams of tropical sunlight that burst across the bow. He stood, squinting against the glare, then turned his head to the west and felt a sudden rush of sensations that brought to him a cosmic resonance he had never felt before.
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<br>“It was early one morning on a calm sea, off Guatemala, when over my couch — a coil of rope — I saw the beginning of a fiery red sunrise on one side and the moon looking like a silver coin on the other. Of the whole trip this impressed me most of all; it left me with a lasting sensation of the solar system.”
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<br>Zignag, Sun, and Crags is not a simple memento of that experience. It is an exhilarating work that celebrates Calder’s inimitable way of imparting the wonder of the natural world by amplifying our experience of it. If, as he might wish, it brings a sense of interconnectedness and belonging as it did to him along the coast of Guatemala as a young Merchant Marine, so much the better.

ALEXANDER CALDER

"Wigwam rouge et jaune", a captivating gouache painting by Alexander Calder, is a vibrant exploration of design and color. Dominated by a lattice of diagonal lines intersecting near their pinnacle, the composition exudes a dynamic balance. Calder introduces an element of whimsy with red and yellow diamond shapes, infusing the piece with playfulness and creating a festive atmosphere. Red balls at the right-leaning lines' apex evoke a whimsical impression, while smaller gray spheres atop left-leaning lines offer contrast and equilibrium. Calder's masterful fusion of simplicity and vital design elements makes Wigwam rouge et jaune a visual delight.

ALEXANDER CALDER

© 2023 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ALEXANDER CALDER

© 2023 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ALEXANDER CALDER

ALEXANDER CALDER - The Oval Spiral - gouache and ink on paper - 43 1/4 x 29 1/2 in.

ALEXANDER CALDER

HARRY BERTOIA - Willow Sculpture - stainless steel - 61 1/2 x 39 x 39 in.

HARRY BERTOIA

© 2023 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ALEXANDER CALDER

HARRY BERTOIA - Untitled (Sounding Sculpture) - beryllium copper and bronze with wood base - 36 1/2 x 8 x 8 in.

HARRY BERTOIA

© 2023 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ALEXANDER CALDER

<div><font face=Calibri size=3 color=black>Harry Bertoia was an authentic visionary in art, and they are rare. Of those whose métier is sculpture, Alexander Calder and Harry Bertoia are the twentieth-century American standouts. They are engineers of beauty; their creative currency is feats of invention and pure artistry that honor our experience of them (if we are willing to quiet our mind) as if a sacred event. It was Duchamp who suggested Calder call his kinetic works “mobiles”, but it was up to Bertoia himself to coin a word to describe something for which there was little precedent. Visually precise, kinetic, and offering resonant, vibratory sound, a “Sonambient” sculpture is at once a metaphor for our sentient experience in the world yet capable of inducing an aura of transcendent experience. Given that insight, it is easy to understand Bertoia’s view that “I don’t hold onto terms like music and sculpture anymore. Those old distinctions have lost all their meaning.”</font></div>
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<br><div><font face=Calibri size=3 color=black>The present “Sonambient” sculpture is a forty-eight-inch-tall curtain of thin-gauged tines. Once activated, it becomes a 15 3/4 inch long, 8 inches deep wall of sound. Five rows of narrow tines are staggered in number, alternating between 30 and 29 tines that, when activated, present as an undulating wall of sound. When touched or moved by air currents, the rods produce a sound that, while metallic, does not betray its source of inspiration: the serene connection Bertoia felt in observing the gentle undulating movement of desert grasses. As always, this is a Bertoia sculpture that invites participation in the experience of changing shapes and sounds, a participatory work that asks us to be present in the moment, to connect across time with the object and its creator.</font></div>

HARRY BERTOIA

The essential and dramatic declaration “Let there be light” of Genesis is not so far removed from Mary Corse’s recollection of the moment in 1968 when the late afternoon sun electrified the reflective road markings of Malibu as she drove east. In an instant, the glowing asphalt markings provided the oracle she needed to realize she could ‘put light in the painting and not just make a picture of light’. Using the same glass microbeads utilized by road maintenance services, she layers and embeds the prismatic material in bands and geometric configurations creating nuanced glimmering abstract fields which shift as the viewer moves in relationship to the work. Move to one side and dimness brightens to light. Walk back and forth and you might feel a rippling effect from its shimmering, prismatic effects.
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<br>A photographic image of a Mary Corse microsphere painting is not only a dull representation, but it also misses the point – it is experience dependent art that requires participation to ‘be’. Of course, “Untitled” (1975) defies that one-point static perspective and instead, depends upon a real time, interactive art experience which heightens awareness of the body in space as the viewer experiences shifts of retinal stimulation, sensation and feeling. It is a rare bird. Unusually petite at two-foot square, its design, geometry and color belie her earlier revelation that led to a devotion to her usual reductive palette. Instead, it is a bold statement in sequined color, its center field bounded at the corners by a sparkling red stepped motif that separates it from its starry night sky corner spandrels. It may not include a star motif, but it has the glamour and presence that belongs along Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

MARY CORSE

<div><font face=Lato size=3>Andy Warhol’s <em>Mao</em> (1972) is one of the artist’s most iconic and provocative screenprints, reflecting his fascination with the intersection of political power and celebrity culture. This impression, numbered 244/250, comes from the regular edition of 250, in addition to 50 artist’s proofs. Warhol based the image on the widely circulated official portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong, a figure whose likeness was omnipresent in China during the Cultural Revolution. By reimagining the image through his vivid Pop palette, Warhol transformed a symbol of political authority into a mass-produced cultural icon. </font></div>
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<br><div><font face=Lato size=3>In this version, Mao’s face is rendered in a striking deep blue, offset by a green shirt and set against a turquoise background. The bold chromatic choices infuse the portrait with both drama and irony, destabilizing the original propagandistic authority of the image. Warhol further heightens this tension by juxtaposing flat, mechanical silkscreen layers with painterly flourishes, blurring the line between mass production and individual expression. </font></div>
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ANDY WARHOL

<div><font face=Lato size=3 color=black>Wayne Thiebaud’s <em>Boston Cremes</em> (1970–71) forms part of the artist’s portfolio <em>Seven Still Lifes and a Silver Landscape</em>. Signed and dated by the artist in 1970, the print has not previously appeared at auction. Thiebaud, a central figure in Post-War American art, is celebrated for his luminous depictions of everyday objects, most notably desserts and consumer goods, that situate him at the intersection of Pop Art’s engagement with mass culture and a painterly sensibility indebted to Impressionism.</font></div>
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<br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color=black>Decadent rows of chocolate-topped pastries are presented in neat sequence, echoing the logic of bakery displays while transforming a familiar confection into a cultural icon. Within the apparent uniformity, subtle variations in contour, texture, and shading emerge, inviting close attention to the individuality of each form.</font></div>
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<br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color=black>At once nostalgic and critical, <em>Boston Cremes</em> reflects the artist’s engagement with American consumer culture and his distinctive balance between realism and stylization. Transforming familiar confections into enduring symbols of American life, the work evokes memory while challenging the boundaries between fine art and popular imagery.</font></div>

WAYNE THIEBAUD

KHMER - Male Torso - sandstone - 24 x 9 x 5 in.

KHMER

From the late 1950s until the mid-1960s, Ray Parker's early contributions to Color Field painting stand out remarkably for their vibrant, fresh quality. Parker arranged two or more robust, rough-edged color blocks using a vigorous, brushy technique on large canvases prepped with gesso. These blocks, rendered in saturated yet subtly vibrant colors, exhibit a distinct energy. While Parker's compositions may remind one of Rothko's, how the color is delivered — solidly and forcefully — sets them apart. Maintaining the grand scale and dynamism of the New York School, Parker's work diverges by forgoing the emotional intensity often associated with Abstract Expressionism and embraces a vision of the movement devoid of its typical pathos.

RAY PARKER

This well preserved bell is one of the largest known bronzes from the Southeast Asian Bronze Age, generally named after the Dongson site in North Vietnam. The swirling band design is finely and crisply cast. Dongson bronze drums were also reported in South China, Thailand, Laos, West Malaysia, and Indonesia and as Far East as Western Iranian Java.
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<br>The Dong Son culture is a Bronze age culture including all of southeast Asia and into the Indo-Malaya Archipelago from about 1000 to 1 BC. Centered on the Red River Valley of Vietnam, the Dong Son were sophisticated agriculturalists, raising rice and buffalo. Dong Son probably arose from local Neolithic cultures, such as Phung Nguyen and Dong Dau phases. Dong Son is identified with the Van Lang ruling dynasty, the first ruling dynasty of Vietnam. By the second century BC, impacts from the Han Dynasty in China were being felt and according to historic records, the Dong Son were absorbed into the Han Dynasty territory.

SOUTHEAST ASIAN

KHMER - Head of Avalokiteshvara - gray sandstone - 13 x 7 x 7 in.

KHMER

<div><font face=Lato size=3 color=black>Wayne Thiebaud’s <em>Breakfast</em>, from an edition of 50, demonstrates the artist’s signature blend of Pop-inflected realism and painterly intimacy. Executed in colored drypoint, the work captures the simple subject of a morning meal with a remarkable freshness: hatching lines soften and blur the composition, creating a pastel-like effect that distinguishes it from the crispness of commercial print design. Though slightly faded, the impression retains the playful chromatic sensibility and softly modeled shadowing that became hallmarks of Thiebaud’s style.</font></div>
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<br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color=black>Since the early 1960s, Thiebaud has been celebrated for his depictions of food—cakes, pies, gumball machines, and diner counters—rendered not as literal meals but as cultural icons, at once nostalgic and idealized. In <em>Breakfast</em>, the modest meal is transformed into a subject of contemplation and delight, celebrating the pleasures of everyday American life while evoking memory and desire. The combination of precision and informality speaks to Thiebaud’s ability to merge the immediacy of drawing with the enduring resonance of painting.</font></div>
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WAYNE THIEBAUD

ELLSWORTH KELLY - Untitled, (from portfolio Eight by Eight to celebrate the Temporary Contemporary) - lithograph on arches paper - 28 3/4 x 40 3/4 in.

ELLSWORTH KELLY

<div><font face=Lato size=3 color=black>Ed Ruscha’s <em>Metro, Petro, Neuro, Psycho</em>, from an edition of 25 with 10 artist proofs, exemplifies the artist’s ongoing investigation into the visual and conceptual potential of language. In this work, stacked words unfold like an architectural structure, their rhyming syllables generating a verbal beat that underscores Ruscha’s fascination with the rhythm and absurdity of text. Letters become forms, spacing becomes structure, and typography itself takes on the weight of image.</font></div>
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<br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color=black>Bridging Ruscha’s iconic word paintings of the 1960s with his more layered experiments of the 1980s and beyond, the print embodies his approach to isolating fragments of language—billboard slogans, overheard words, or invented phrases—so they can be reconsidered as both visual and semantic phenomena. Ruscha himself has described such arrangements as “visual noise,” simultaneously playful and disorienting. Institutional recognition of the work’s importance is affirmed by examples in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.</font></div>

ED RUSCHA

ALEX KATZ - Vivien - silkscreen on museum board - 39 x 41 in.

ALEX KATZ

ELLSWORTH KELLY - Red Curve - color lithograph - 10 x 7 1/2 in.

ELLSWORTH KELLY

The character shown here is the character for long life, read shou in Chinese and kotobuki in Japanese. The elegance of the characters, especially when depicted in their cursive forms, has made them poplar decorative motifs on textiles, ceramics, lacquer and many other media. Here the character, built up using gold-wrapped threads, is surrounded by chrysanthemums, which are also symbols of long-life because of their health-giving properties. Such a fukusa was likely made as a cover for a birthday gift.

JAPANESE

ELLSWORTH KELLY - Red, Yellow, Blue - color lithograph - 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.

ELLSWORTH KELLY

ELLSWORTH KELLY - Red Curve (Black State) - color lithograph - 10 x 7 1/2 in.

ELLSWORTH KELLY

JOSEF ALBERS - Formulation: Articulation - screenprint - left: 10 x 17 1/2 in. right: 6 x 10 1/2 in.

JOSEF ALBERS

JOSEF ALBERS - Formulation: Articulation - screenprint - 12 x 11 3/4 in. ea.

JOSEF ALBERS

LAWRENCE SCHILLER - End of the Day, Marilyn Monroe, "Something's Got to Give" - silver gelatin print - 20 x 24 in.

LAWRENCE SCHILLER

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