Raymer Society Consignment Art Auction
Lot 9:
Description
Bernard, David E (1913-2006) lithograph, Benedictine Monastery at Melk, Austria, pencil signed David E. Bernard in lower right, good condition, not examined out of frame, image size: 12.25 x 14 inches. David Bernard was a renowned print maker and sculptor. Educted at Cal State Long Beach and the prestigious Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, Bernard worked as a commercial artist and served in the US military before accepting a position on the Wichita State University art faculty in 1949. Before he retired as Professor of Art, in 1983, he supervised a fully equipped lithography and etching studio as well as a highly competitive graduate program. Bernard was nationally prominent for re-introducing the collagraph as a significant printmaking technique.Bernard’s style was remarkably broad, ranging from an apparently straightforward realism that encouraged narrative to non-figurative abstraction in the European modernist tradition of Stanley William Hayter and Mauricio Lasansky. Breadth also applied to the range of his subjects, which extended from meditations on ancient civilizations to pastoral representations of the Kansas landscape. He engaged in a dialogue with the history of art through his prints on religious themes, while also responding to contemporary social issues by criticizing some dominant ideologies, militarism in particular.Bernard’s sculptural commissions can be seen in Wichita on the grounds of the Wichita Art Museum (Tree), the Duerksen Fine Arts Center on the Wichita State University campus, and in the auditorium of the Irene Vickers Baker Children’s Theatre.
Condition: good condition, not examined out of frame
Dimensions: 19.25 x 23.25 x 1 in
Weight: 5.1 lb
Share this lot:
