Formulate//Articulate

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Dan Flavin // 1972 // I Believe Him

Limited edition Offset Lithograph published to support then Presidential Candidate George McGovern. Inscribed/Numbered/Signed/Dated by Flavin. Edition 1000.

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Stephen Antonakos // 1971 // Lines

Lithograph Printed in Madison, WI. Edition of 9.

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Ellsworth Kelly // 2011 // Die Welt

4 years ago, October 6, 2011, Germany's Die Welt published this amazing newspaper. All news related imagery was replaced with the select works of Ellsworth Kelly in order to promote two exhibitions in Munich.

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Kaspar-Thomas Lenk // 1970 // Geometric Composition

Screenprint published by London Arts Group. Artist proof 4/5. Edition 100.

Lenk represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale.

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Verena Loewensberg // 1973 // Geometric Composition

Screenprint on PVC Foil. Edition 200.

Loewensberg was a Swiss painter and graphic designer. She was a core member of the Zurich-based association, the Alliance. Founded in 1937, the Alliance also consisted of Max Bill, Camille Graeser, and Richard Paul Lohse.

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Shizuko Yoshikawa // 1983 // Untitled

Screenprint Published by Meissner, Hamburg. Printed on PVC Foil. Edition 99.

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Ilya Bolotowsky // c. 1970 // Untitled (Red Diamond)

Screenprint published by the London Arts Group, Detroit. Edition 125.

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Anton Stankowski // 1974 // Strahlenstern/SEL

Screenprint from the portfolio Signetmappe. Printed by Atelier Robert Scherer, Stuttgart. Edition 130.

Stankowski was one of the first artists to successfully navigate the gap between fine and applied arts. His best known design is the  Deutsche Bank identity. 

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Josef Albers // 1972 // Variants from Formulation : Articulation

Screenprints published by Ives-Sillman, New Haven, in collaboration with Harry N. Abrams, New York. Printed by Sirocco Screenprints, New Haven. Edition 1000. (Danilowitz Appx. C)

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Max Bill // 1975 // Lithographie Originale

Lithograph designed specifically for XXe Siècle Vol X as a tribute to publisher Gualtieri di San Lazzaro. Printed on Arches wove paper by Mourlot Freres, Paris. Edition 575.

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Auguste Herbin // 1959–1960 // La Fin

Screenprint published by l’Atelier Herbin. Edition 200.

La Fin is Herbin’s final design/print. Due to his death prior to edition, the print is hand-numbered and estate-stamped with justification printed on back. 

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Geneviève Claisse // c. 1980 // Untitled

Screenprint. Published by HMK Fine Arts. Edition 100.

Claisse is a French abstract painter and author. Her earliest and best known works focused on the spacial exploration of overlapping colored circles. She is a relative of the geometric abstraction pioneer, Auguste Herbin.

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Nicholas Krushenick // 1965 // Paris Review Poster

Screenprint. Printed by Chiron Press, NYC. Editon 150.

Krushenick attended the Art Students League of New York and the Hans Hofmann School of Art. He was a forerunner of the pop art movement and the sole innovator of the pop abstraction genre.

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Pierre Clerk // 1980 // Morocco Series #8

Screenprint. Edition 200.

Clerk’s work was featured in the 9th New Talent Exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art in 1956. He is best know for the sculpture titled City Candy, located in Toledo, Ohio. He currently lives and works in France.

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Ellsworth Kelly // 1965 // Lincoln Center Poster

Offset Lithograph printed by the Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York. The graphics are specific to this project. Published by the Albert A. List Foundation to raise money for the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York. (Axsom IIe)

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Jakob Bill // 1984 // Untitled I – III // Published by Meissner, Hamburg

These lithographs were distributed as a premium to first class customers of Lufthansa Airlines as part of their “Artists of the World” series.

Jakob Bill is a Swiss archaeologist/artist, the son of Max Bill, and the director of the Max, Binia + Jakob Bill Foundation.

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Vormen van de Kleur // 1966 // Exhibition Portfolio

1. Ellsworth Kelly

2. Bob Bonies

3. Georg-Karl Pfahler

4. William Turnbull

Screenprints published in 1966 by the Stedelijk, Amsterdam. Printed by Stadsdrukkerij van Amsterdam. Images were designed specifically for this exhibition portfolio. Edition 2200. (Kelly - Axsom Id)