FEDERICO CASTELLON ARTIST PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH TITLED "WAITING WOMEN

Description: Federico Castellon "Two Women," Original Lithograph Portrait signed by Federico Castellon circa 1935ARTIST SIGNED: FEDERICO CASTELLON Born one of seven children in Alhabia, a city in Almería, Spain, Federico Castellon lived in Barcelona before his parents moved the family to the United States when he was seven. They settled in Flatbush, in Brooklyn, New York. As a Spanish-speaking child with limited English living in a new country, Castellon found himself ostracized by his peers; he was also held back in school for two years. As a means of expression and “to save my sanity,” Castellon turned to drawing, which would consume him for hours. Largely self-taught, as a teenager he visited New York area museums to view the work of European masters, but it was at Erasmus Hall High School where an art teacher gave him his strongest encouragement and exposed him to modern art for the first time. Shortly after graduating from Erasmus High School, he completed a mural for the school based on the subject of arts and sciences. The mural, obviously informed by his interest in modern European movements, attracted critical attention and was exhibited in New York at Raymond and Raymond Galleries before being permanently installed in the school. In the early 1930s, Castellon was introduced to Diego Rivera at a lecture given by the artist on his Man at the Crossroads murals for Rockefeller Center (destroyed in 1934 at Nelson Rockefeller’s request). The older artist took an interest in the young man’s work and brought Castellon’s drawings to the attention of the director of the Weyhe Gallery in New York, who subsequently gave the eighteen-year-old Castellon his first solo exhibition. So impressed with Castellon was Rivera that he also began writing letters to the Spanish Minister of Education on Castellon’s behalf, and through his efforts, the Spanish Republic awarded Castellon a government fellowship to study art for four years. In 1934, Castellon left to study painting and printmaking in Paris and Madrid. While there, he befriended leading artists and intellectuals who made European cafés lively places for debates about art and modernism in the 1930s. But Castellon’s return to Spain was meaningful on another level as well; it stirred up memories from his childhood that he had forgotten, “these memories became real all of a sudden where I had seen them, thought of them as dreams, never really seeing them as dreams but thought of them. All of a sudden I saw that I was moving in a dream.”[2] This dream-like reality would become a key component of his style. In 1936, the Spanish Civil War erupted, bringing an abrupt end to Castellon’s studies. He returned to New York and in 1937, began to experiment with lithography and printmaking techniques he had learned in Europe. That same year and again in 1938, his work was included in the annual survey of contemporary art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1939, Castellon did a residency at Yaddo, an artists’ and writers’ retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York, and in the following year, he received the first of two Guggenheim fellowships. Although his formal education ended with high school, Castellon remained an avid reader and maintained an interest in psychology and philosophy. He became a United States citizen in 1943 and throughout the 1940s and 1950s, his work was informed by his travels abroad: to China with the US Army; Italy on his second Guggenheim fellowship; and Paris and Madrid, where he moved his family for a brief period during the late fifties. During this time, he also began his teaching career and took on commissions from American periodicals, most notably, Life magazine. Even though he worked in virtually every media, Castellon remains best known for his early graphic work, particularly his etchings, a medium in which he became a master. His prints and drawings from the early thirties represent early examples of surrealism created in the United States, an astounding achievement considering Castellon produced these inventive, original works before his travels abroad and before the New York premiere of the Museum of Modern Art’s seminal exhibition, Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism. THE LITHOGRAPH IS APPROX. 8.75 INCHES HIGH X 12 INCHES WIDE.THE FRAME IS APPROX. 17.5 INCHES HIGH X 23.25 INCHES WIDE. PLEASE LOOK OVER THE LITHOGRAPH CAREFULLY. LET THE PICTURES DETERMINE YOUR INTEREST.Disclaimer: Due to some differences in computer settings, the color may not appear exactly as it does in the painting. 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Price: 2250 USD

Location: Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

End Time: 2024-03-15T00:40:32.000Z

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