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RICHARD ESTES (B. 1932)
Grant's, from: Urban Landscapes I
screenprint in colors, on Schoeller Parole paper, 1972, signed in pencil, inscribed A.P., one of 25 artist's proofs aside from the edition of 75, printed by Domberger KG, Stuttgart, published by Parasol Press, Ltd., New York
Image: 14 x 2038 in. (356 x 518 mm.)
Sheet: 1958 x 2738 in. (499 x 695 mm.)
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Arthur p. 112
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This example from Richard Estes’ first collaboration with the Domberger workshop, a portfolio titled Urban Landscapes I, is typical of the artist’s photo-derived, evocative urban views and cityscapes. The frieze-like compositions carefully frame and reconstruct the shining surfaces of storefronts and restaurants. Their glass and metal facades create a rich pattern of signage and reflective planes. Screenprinting, a stencil process was the ideal medium to approximate Estes’ elaborate, flat, and linear images. For Estes’ silkscreens he shipped painted maquettes to their German workshop, where the printers broke down the image into its general forms to create a series of silkscreens.

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