Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017), Title: The Stele, Year: 1968, Medium: Woodcut with Embossing on BFK Rives, signed in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 17 x 15 inches, Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017), Title: Memorium, Year: 1968, Medium: Woodcut with Embossing on BFK Rives, signed in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 17 x 15 inches, Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
ARTIST: Walter Sidney Feldman (Massachusetts, 1925 - 2017) TITLE: Portrait of Military Man MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Few minor paint losses mostly along edges. No visible inpaint under UV light. ART SIZE: 30 x 26 inches / 76 x 66 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: on verso ATTENTION: This lot is located at our Mamaroneck, NY office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 131890 US Shipping $90 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Walter S. Feldman (1925 - 2017) was a modernist American painter, printmaker and mosaicist who spent most of his life and career in Providence, Rhode Island. He is best known for his expressionist paintings, woodcuts, and public commission mosaics and stained glass windows. He became a student at the Yale School of Art in 1942. After graduating from the Yale University of Fine Arts (BFA 1950) and Yale University School of Design (MFA 1951), he became an art educator at Brown University for over 5 decades. In 1990, Feldman founded and was the principal designer of art books of Ziggurat Press in Providence.Feldman re-enrolled at Yale in the Fall of 1946, he completed his BFA in 1950. he was awarded the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship and spent a few months after graduation traveling in France and Italy and furthering his exposure to past masters and modern European artists. He returned to Yale as a graduate student, where his teachers included Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers, and received an MFA in 1951. As an undergraduate art student (1946-1950), Feldman worked on mastering technical painting skills in a realism style. The work, The Mother, is a "memory portrait" from this period.Feldman joined the Yale faculty as an Instructor of Painting for the next two years. In 1953 he was appointed to the Brown University art department where he stayed until his retirement in 2007.Feldman was promoted to Professor of Art at Brown University in 1961 while continuing to create and exhibit his art in multiple media'painting, printmaking, sculpture and mosaics. From 1985 on, he divided his time between painting and as a designer and publisher of artists' books under the Ziggurat press imprint. Feldman was the founder of the Ziggurat Press in Providence. His works are in over 100 public collections including the Holocaust Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art in Washington, DC, Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.Feldman retired from teaching at Brown University in 2007, but he kept creating art and publishing prints and books up until his death in Providence on May 20, 2017. In 2013, he endowed the Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists at the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston. The Fellowship supports the professional career of a visual artist through providing a solo exhibition with curatorial and professional development guidance for their career. Upon his death he also created the Walter S. Feldman Trust for Artwork at Brown University to maintain his works and provide funds for the institution.
ARTIST: Walter Sidney Feldman (Massachusetts, 1925 - 2017) TITLE: Portrait of Woman YEAR: 1948 MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Minor paint losses. No visible inpaint under UV light. ART SIZE: 33 x 26 inches / 83 x 66 cm FRAME SIZE: 34 x 27 inches / 86 x 68 cm SIGNATURE: lower left ATTENTION: This lot is located at our Mamaroneck, NY office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 131889 US Shipping $90 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Walter S. Feldman (1925 - 2017) was a modernist American painter, printmaker and mosaicist who spent most of his life and career in Providence, Rhode Island. He is best known for his expressionist paintings, woodcuts, and public commission mosaics and stained glass windows. He became a student at the Yale School of Art in 1942. After graduating from the Yale University of Fine Arts (BFA 1950) and Yale University School of Design (MFA 1951), he became an art educator at Brown University for over 5 decades. In 1990, Feldman founded and was the principal designer of art books of Ziggurat Press in Providence.Feldman re-enrolled at Yale in the Fall of 1946, he completed his BFA in 1950. he was awarded the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship and spent a few months after graduation traveling in France and Italy and furthering his exposure to past masters and modern European artists. He returned to Yale as a graduate student, where his teachers included Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers, and received an MFA in 1951. As an undergraduate art student (1946-1950), Feldman worked on mastering technical painting skills in a realism style. The work, The Mother, is a "memory portrait" from this period.Feldman joined the Yale faculty as an Instructor of Painting for the next two years. In 1953 he was appointed to the Brown University art department where he stayed until his retirement in 2007.Feldman was promoted to Professor of Art at Brown University in 1961 while continuing to create and exhibit his art in multiple media'painting, printmaking, sculpture and mosaics. From 1985 on, he divided his time between painting and as a designer and publisher of artists' books under the Ziggurat press imprint. Feldman was the founder of the Ziggurat Press in Providence. His works are in over 100 public collections including the Holocaust Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art in Washington, DC, Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.Feldman retired from teaching at Brown University in 2007, but he kept creating art and publishing prints and books up until his death in Providence on May 20, 2017. In 2013, he endowed the Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists at the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston. The Fellowship supports the professional career of a visual artist through providing a solo exhibition with curatorial and professional development guidance for their career. Upon his death he also created the Walter S. Feldman Trust for Artwork at Brown University to maintain his works and provide funds for the institution.
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: Ezekiel Year: 1968 Medium: Woodcut with Embossing on BFK Rives, signed in pencil Edition: AP Image Size: 17 x 15 inches Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: Masada 6 Year: 1969 Medium: Woodcut, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 22 x 17 in. (55.88 x 43.18 cm) Description: Walter Feldman created the series "Masada" around the destruction of the Masada stronghold, once the palace of King Herod the Great. While under siege from the Romans, 960 of the residents of Masada killed themselves rather than be taken by the Romans, emphasizing that to die was preferable to slavery.
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: Masada 4 Year: 1969 Medium: Woodcut, signed in pencil Edition: 25 Size: 17 in. x 22 in. (43.18 cm x 55.88 cm) Description: Walter Feldman created the series "Masada" around the destruction of the Masada stronghold, once the palace of King Herod the Great. While under siege from the Romans, 960 of the residents of Masada killed themselves rather than be taken by the Romans, emphasizing that to die was preferable to slavery.
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: Masada 5 Year: 1969 Medium: Woodcut, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil Edition: 25 Image Size: 14 x 19 inches Size: 17 x 22 in. (43.18 x 55.88 cm) Description: Walter Feldman created the series "Masada" around the destruction of the Masada stronghold, once the palace of King Herod the Great. While under siege from the Romans, 960 of the residents of Masada killed themselves rather than be taken by the Romans, emphasizing that to die was preferable to slavery.
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: Masada 3 Year: 1969 Medium: Woodcut, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil Edition: 25 Size: 22 x 17 in. (55.88 x 43.18 cm) Description: Walter Feldman created the series "Masada" around the destruction of the Masada stronghold, once the palace of King Herod the Great. While under siege from the Romans, 960 of the residents of Masada killed themselves rather than be taken by the Romans, emphasizing that to die was preferable to slavery.
Walter (Sidney) Feldman Rhode Island, New York / Italy, (1925 - 2017) Counter Event, 1960 woodcut on wove paper Pencil signed and dated lower right, titled lower center, numbered 139/200 lower left. Biography from the Archives of askART: Walter Feldman was born in 1925 in Lynn Massachusetts. His parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe and Feldman grew up in Chelsea "... a Russian-Polish-Jewish community surrounded by Irish".1 His father ran a small grocery store and moonlighted as a tailor, while his mother stitched shoes in a factory. While Feldman's parents hoped he would enter one of the practical professions like law, they appeased his interest in art as a youngster by allowing him to take art classes on Saturday afternoon at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Reminiscing in later life about these painting classes, Feldman said "I got fifteen cents for lunch and had a hot dog and orangeade every week. I loved it". 2 After high school, Feldman was admitted as a student at the Yale School of the Fine Arts in 1942. But like so many young men of his generation, Feldman's education was interrupted after one semester by his service in World War II. From 1943 through 1946, Feldman served in the 330th Infantry Regiment of the 83rd Infantry Division, a unit that saw significant combat in the European theatre. During his tour of duty Feldman was awarded 4 battle stars, the Purple Heart and the combat infantry badge and reached the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. His service included action in the Allied Forces defense of the Ardennes forest during the German counter-offensive action known as the Battle of the Bulge. On January 6th, 1945, while under heavy mortar and artillery fire, Feldman sustained shrapnel wounds to his lower back and lay strapped on the top of an Army jeep for five hours awaiting evacuation and treatment. His near death and harrowing rescue experiences left impressions that would manifest in the artist's work over the decades, as well as leaving him with a life-long injury. Told he would likely never walk again while recuperating, he overcame the pain and injury turning to painting as a form of healing. "Through the pain I learned how to paint too. Pain and painting, I learned the strange verbal connection"3 World War II themes played a prominent role in Feldman's art throughout the decades. A study for The Soldier is perhaps the most poignant early example of Feldman's sobering war experience. It is a macabre image of a skeleton-faced soldier, completed in 1946 when he returned from service. "I had many moving experiences during the war. One of them happened at a time when we were having two meals a day during combat. We were in line getting food, and we were pleased because we had cold rations for weeks. After I got my food, I started to walk down the steps of a nearby quarry to find a place to sit, and there was a dead German soldier with just his toes sticking out of his boot. Dead and cold. That was the memory I had when I did this painting tempura on cardboard.4 Feldman returned from war a mature, thoughtful, and spiritual artist at a tender age and re-enrolling at Yale in the Fall of 1946, he completed his BFA in 1950. Feldman was awarded the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship and spent a few months after graduation traveling in France and Italy and furthering his exposure to past masters and modern European artists. He returned to Yale as a graduate student, where his teachers included Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers, and received an MFA in 1951. Albers and de Kooning were big influences on his art. As an undergraduate art student (1946-1950), Feldman worked on mastering technical painting skills in a realism style. The work, The Mother, is a "memory portrait" from this period. "The painting was done after knowing and meeting the mother of Stuart Davis. A buddy and I rented a studio in a big complex in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and a little old lady was there, too, making small sculptures. It turned out to be Stuart Davis's mother."5 But there were many competing art currents about in the early 1950s—with European modernists like Cezanne, Surrealists like Dali, Cubists like Braque, Abstract Expressionists like Pollock and de Kooning and Geometric Abstractionists like Albers. Feldman took note of them all as he was developing his own style. Modernist ideas became the fabric of Feldman's daily life. Feldman joined the Yale faculty as an Instructor of Painting for the next two years, before accepting a position of Assistant Professor of Art at Brown University in Providence, RI in 1953. The decade of the 1950s, saw the young artist compete and establish himself in New York City, the capital of the burgeoning world of contemporary art. He entered works that were accepted to multiple juried exhibitions. In 1952, Feldman achieved his first major professional critical success when received the print prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for his woodcut The Final Agony. The Final Agony, a crucifixion scene, was submitted with 7,109 other artist prints to this Metropolitan exhibition. Only 8% of the entrants were selected for exhibition and just 6 print prize winners awarded. This was a major achievement for the artist. The print is now in the collections of the Metropolitan as well as Yale University, which also acquired the carved wood block. Feldman excelled in the medium of woodcut. Beginning in 1952, his woodcuts were selected for exhibition in over 23 museum print shows. His talent was widely recognized with Feldman garnering multiple awards including the Purchase Prize from Youngstown University's exhibition College Prints (1956); Tonner Prize of the American Color Print Society (1958); Childe Hassam Purchase Award from the National Academy of Design (1959), and Honorable Mention in Seattle Art Museum's Northwest Printmakers competition (1953, 1955). The woodcut medium would remain a staple in Feldman's body of work. Throughout his long career, his printmaking was critically acclaimed and later fueled his interest in making unique art books in the 1990s. In 1953, Feldman came to Brown University in Providence embarking on a five-decade teaching career and life-long association with the institution. That year marked the artist's first solo exhibition at the Artists' Gallery on Lexington Avenue in New York City, and the inclusion of his paintings in a group show at New York's prestigious Kraushaar Galleries. The exhibited works demonstrated Feldman's journey to absorb modernism and his stylist drift towards abstraction. The Artists' Gallery was a venue to expose promising young artists to the public. Feldman's show introduced him to the New York art scene warmly. Art Critic Dore Aston of Art Digest reviewed Feldman's 1953 exhibit and wrote "In his first one-man show, this young painter hovers between French cubism and German expressionist, using the flat decorative shapes of the former and the vigorous distorted figures of the latter. The two languages are agreeably synthesized in smaller still-lifes". Critic Howard Devree of the New York Times wrote "the paintings exemplify the main concern of many modern painters—the reconciliation of subject matter with idiosyncratic and abstract painting language". He concluded the show was "a remarkably mature first one-man exhibition of paintings…" 6 The year 1957 was a milestone period for the artist. Feldman studied mosaics and stained glass in Italy on a Senior Fulbright Fellowship for the year. Feldman spent much of that time as an apprentice to an Italian mosaic master in Rome, but also traveled to Spain, the Middle East, Turkey, and Israel to study various mosaic styles. Feldman's art flourished during this year. His self-portrait was awarded the gold medal at the Mostra Internazionale in Milan, and this success was followed by a solo exhibition at Milan's Grattacielo Gallery. His knowledge of mosaics permeated much of his future art with the result that many of his new paintings incorporated an impasto paint technique that gave the canvas a mosaic texture. Feldman's artistic style was breaking from realism using lush color, collaging onto his canvases and creating a fractured visual space. That same year he received two major commissions: a multicolor woodcut for the International Graphic Arts Society and a series of exterior mosaic pavements for the Temple Beth-El in Providence. During the 1950s and 1960s, Feldman work was in the midst of the creative maelstrom of modern art. He garnered multiple solo exhibitions at Kraushaar Galleries in New York, as well the Decordova Museum in Massachusetts, the Providence Art Club, the Obelisk Gallery, Pace Gallery, and Kanegis Gallery in Boston, the Mexican- American Institute in Mexico City and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Akin to de Kooning's thinking, Feldman never abandoned the natural world for inspiration for his art. His themes included time-honored subject matter like death, war and spiritual redemption. But like the modernists of his day, Feldman sought a new expressive vocabulary for these themes on his canvases. Poet James Schevill wrote of Feldman in a 1978 essay, "During the 1950s, although his work grew much freer, he hovered between the influence of the Abstract-Expressionists and his instinctive desire, from his Jewish, humanistic background, for symbolic subject matter".7 The decade of the 1960s saw Feldman continue to produce as a tireless painter, printmaker and mosaicist. Feldman executed a large exterior mosaic mural for Temple Emanu-El in Providence, and that was followed by a commission to create seven stained glass windows for the Sugarman Memorial Chapel in Providence (1961). He was awarded the George A. and Eliza Gardener Howard Fellowship and spent 1962 painting in Mexico where he absorbed a great deal of the pre-Columbian imagery and culture. In 1968, Feldman designed and painted a 32-panel mural for the new meeting hall of Temple Emanu-el in Providence. Feldman was promoted to Professor of Art at Brown University in 1961 and was a beloved teacher at that institution for over 50 years while continuing to create and exhibit his art widely in multiple media—painting, printmaking, sculpture and mosaics. From 1985 on, Feldman has divided his time between painting and as a designer and publisher of artists' book under the Ziggurat press imprint. Feldman was the founder of the Ziggurat Press in Providence, which quickly became known as the most innovative and individualistic fine art presses in the country. His works are in over 150 public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Holocaust Museum and the Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art in Washington, DC, Los Angeles County Museum, and the Albert and Victoria Museum. Feldman retired from teaching at Brown University in 2007, but he kept creating art and publishing prints and books up until his death in Providence in 2017. Upon his passing he created the Walter S. Feldman Trust for Artwork at Brown University to maintain his works and provide funds for the institution. 1 Walter Feldman: Notes on His Life and Work by James Schevill, p.13. Walter Feldman, Bell Gallery, List Art Building, Brown University exhibition catalogue, 1978. 2 Walter Feldman: Notes on His Life and Work by James Schevill, p.13. Walter Feldman, Bell Gallery, List Art Building, Brown University exhibition catalogue, 1978. 3 Walter Feldman: Notes on His Life and Work by James Schevill, p.14. Walter Feldman, Bell Gallery, List Art Building, Brown University exhibition catalogue, 1978. 4 Points in Time: Walter Feldman Selected Works. The artist talks about his work. An edited interview conducted by Kathryn de Boer in April 2010 in the artist's studio in Providence. Published by Ziggurat Press, Providence, RI, August 2010. 5 Points in Time: Walter Feldman Selected Works. The artist talks about his work. An edited interview conducted by Kathryn de Boer in April 2010 in the artist's studio in Providence. Published by Ziggurat Press, Providence, RI, August 2010. 6 Walter Feldman: A Visual Profile by Gloria Barone, p.7-8. From Points in Time: Walter Feldman Selected Works, Ziggurat Press, Providence, RI, February 2010. 7 Walter Feldman: Notes on His Life and Work by James Schevill, p.16. Walter Feldman, Bell Gallery, List Art Building, Brown University exhibition catalogue, 1978. Source: Biography by A. Bert of Bert Gallery, inc, 2020 Submitted by: Cathy Bert
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: The Sea Year: 1968 Medium: Woodcut with Embossing on BFK Rives, signed in pencil Edition: AP Image Size: 17 x 15 inches Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
"IBM World's Fair 1964 - 1965." Graphic for the 1964 - 65 Worlds Fair IBM Pavilion. 72" x 50". Photo-offset. Note: This large scale and rare graphic is one of a handful known to exist, and the second to be available by Vallot Auctioneers. The print was commissioned by Charles Eames (Eames Office) and was for the IBM Pavilion. Eames and Eero Saarinen worked together on the project along with the Eames office, which included arranging all the graphics and signage for the pavilion. Provenance: Estate of Walter Feldman.
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: Masada 6 Portfolio: Year: 1969 Medium: Woodcut, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 22 x 17 in. (55.88 x 43.18 cm) Description: Walter Feldman created the series "Masada" around the destruction of the Masada stronghold, once the palace of King Herod the Great. While under siege from the Romans, 960 of the residents of Masada killed themselves rather than be taken by the Romans, emphasizing that to die was preferable to slavery.
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: The Stele Portfolio: Year: 1968 Medium: Woodcut with Embossing on BFK Rives, signed in pencil Edition: AP Image Size: 17 x 15 inches Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: Ezekiel Portfolio: Year: 1968 Medium: Woodcut with Embossing on BFK Rives, signed in pencil Edition: AP Image Size: 17 x 15 inches Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: The Stele Year: 1968 Medium: Woodcut with Embossing on BFK Rives, signed in pencil Edition: AP Image Size: 17 x 15 inches Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: Masada 2 Year: 1969 Medium: Woodcut, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil Edition: 25 Image Size: 19 x 14 inches Size: 22 x 16.5 in. (55.88 x 41.91 cm) Description: Walter Feldman created the series "Masada" around the destruction of the Masada stronghold, once the palace of King Herod the Great. While under siege from the Romans, 960 of the residents of Masada killed themselves rather than be taken by the Romans, emphasizing that to die was preferable to slavery.
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: Masada 1 Year: 1969 Medium: Woodcut, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil Edition: 25 Image Size: 13 x 19 inches Size: 16.5 x 22 in. (41.91 x 55.88 cm) Description: Walter Feldman created the series "Masada" around the destruction of the Masada stronghold, once the palace of King Herod the Great. While under siege from the Romans, 960 of the residents of Masada killed themselves rather than be taken by the Romans, emphasizing that to die was preferable to slavery.
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: Masada 2 Year: 1969 Medium: Woodcut, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil Edition: 25 Image Size: 19 x 14 inches Size: 22 x 16.5 in. (55.88 x 41.91 cm)
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: The Owl Year: 1968 Medium: Intaglio, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil Edition: AP Image Size: 9.5 x 5.5 inches Size: 13.5 x 9.5 in. (34.29 x 24.13 cm)
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: The Stele Year: 1968 Medium: Embossed Etching, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: AP Image Size: 17 x 15 inches Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Artist: Walter Feldman, American (1925 - 2017) Title: Memorium Year: 1968 Medium: Embossed Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP Image Size: 17 x 15 inches Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
"IBM World's Fair 1964 - 1965." Graphic for the 1964 - 65 World's Fair IBM Pavilion. 72 x 50 inches. Photo-offset. Note: This large scale and rare graphic is one of a few known to exist and the first known to be available. The print was commissioned by Charles Eames (Eames Office) and was for the IBM Pavilion. Eames and Eero Saarinen worked together on the project along with the Eames office which included arranging all the graphics and signage for the pavilion.
WALTER FELDMAN AMERICAN, 1925-2017 HANDBALL, 1955 Oil on canvas Lower left signed and dated: Walter Feldman 1955; verso: titled dated and signed on stretcher: "HANDBALL" 1955 WALTER FELDMAN Walter S. Feldman (1925-2017) was born in 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts, into an immigrant family from Eastern Europe. Early on he was attracted by the arts and took art lessons Saturday afternoons at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1942, he was admitted to Yale School of Fine Arts. He completed one semester before being called up into the military. He was wounded during his honorable service and turned to his art for help, "Through the pain I learned how to paint too. Pain and painting, I learned the strange verbal connection" ( Walter Feldman: Notes on His Life and Work by James Schevill, p.14) He returned to Yale in the Fall of 1946 and completed his BFA in 1950. He continued on at Yale for his graduate studies; his teachers included William de Kooning and Josef Albers. Both had a lasting influence on his work. It was during the 1950s that Feldman absorbed the different artistic currents and forged his own style. 1953 was an important year for Feldman, he began his five decade long relationship with Brown University and had his first solo exhibition at the "Artists Gallery" on Lexington Avenue in New York City.
WALTER FELDMAN AMERICAN, 1925-2017 SNOW BARRIERS, 1959 Ink on rag paper Lower right signed dated and titled: Walter Feldman 59 / Snow Barriers; verso stamped Walter S. Feldman (1925-2017) was born in 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts, into an immigrant family from Eastern Europe. Early on he was attracted by the arts and took art lessons Saturday afternoons at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1942, he was admitted to Yale School of Fine Arts. He completed one semester before being called up into the military. He was wounded during his honorable service and turned to his art for help, "Through the pain I learned how to paint too. Pain and painting, I learned the strange verbal connection" ( Walter Feldman: Notes on His Life and Work by James Schevill, p.14) He returned to Yale in the Fall of 1946 and completed his BFA in 1950. He continued on at Yale for his graduate studies; his teachers included William de Kooning and Josef Albers. Both had a lasting influence on his work. It was during the 1950s that Feldman absorbed the different artistic currents and forged his own style. 1953 was an important year for Feldman, he began his five decade long relationship with Brown University and had his first solo exhibition at the "Artists Gallery" on Lexington Avenue in New York City.
WALTER FELDMAN AMERICAN, 1925-2017 CIRCUS CLOWN, 1947 Egg tempera on board Unframed Walter S. Feldman (1925-2017) was born in 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts, into an immigrant family from Eastern Europe. Early on he was attracted by the arts and took art lessons Saturday afternoons at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1942, he was admitted to Yale School of Fine Arts. He completed one semester before being called up into the military. He was wounded during his honorable service and turned to his art for help, "Through the pain I learned how to paint too. Pain and painting, I learned the strange verbal connection" ( Walter Feldman: Notes on His Life and Work by James Schevill, p.14) He returned to Yale in the Fall of 1946 and completed his BFA in 1950. He continued on at Yale for his graduate studies; his teachers included William de Kooning and Josef Albers. Both had a lasting influence on his work. It was during the 1950s that Feldman absorbed the different artistic currents and forged his own style. 1953 was an important year for Feldman, he began his five decade long relationship with Brown University and had his first solo exhibition at the "Artists Gallery" on Lexington Avenue in New York City.
Walter Feldman (American, 1925-2017), "Cloud Banks", pencil signed and dated lower left, gallery label verso, framed under glass, 21.75"'x 29.5" (sight), 23"h x 31"w (frame)
Rhode Island, New York, Italy 1925-2017 Hammered and nailed copper sheets abstract graphite and watercolor lines and flecks. Feldman studied with Josef Albers and Whilhelm de Kooning and received the Childe Hassam purchase prize from the National Academy of Design and the Tonner prize from the American Color Print Society.
WALTER FELDMAN (AMERICAN, 1925-2017) STILL LIFE WITH CHAIR, 1952 Oil on board: 30 x 26 in. Unframed; Exhibited 1953 Artist Gallery, Kraushaar Galleries label verso
WALTER FELDMAN (AMERICAN, 1925-2017) THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES, 1956 Oil on canvas: 36 x 20 in., 36 3/4 x 20 3/4 in. (framed) Original frame; Exhibited Providence Art Club, 1956
WALTER FELDMAN (AMERICAN, 1925-2017) STUDY FOR THE SIGN OF THE EASTERN DESERT, 1957 Acrylic and ink on paper: 22 1/2 x 30 3/4 in. (full sheet) Unframed; lower right signed and dated in graphite: Walter Feldman 1957 Kraushaar Gallery label Note: Walter S. Feldman (1925-2017) was born in 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts, into an immigrant family from Eastern Europe. Early on he was attracted by the arts and took art lessons Saturday afternoons at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1942, he was admitted to Yale School of Fine Arts. He completed one semester before being called up into the military. He was wounded during his honorable service and turned to his art for help, "Through the pain I learned how to paint too. Pain and painting, I learned the strange verbal connection" ( Walter Feldman: Notes on His Life and Work by James Schevill, p.14) He returned to Yale in the Fall of 1946 and completed his BFA in 1950. He continued on at Yale for his graduate studies; his teachers included William de Kooning and Josef Albers. Both had a lasting influence on his work. It was during the 1950s that Feldman absorbed the different artistic currents and forged his own style. 1953 was an important year for Feldman, he began his five decade long relationship with Brown University and had his first solo exhibition at the "Artists Gallery" on Lexington Avenue in New York City.
WALTER FELDMAN (AMERICAN, 1925-2017) AND IT BURNED, 1957 Oil on canvas: 32 x 45 in., 32 1/2 x 45 1/2 in. (framed) Framed; lower right signed and dated: Walter Feldman 57; verso inscribed on canvas: "And it Burned" Kraushaar Gallery Exhibit, Kraushaar Galleries Exhibit 1958 Note: Walter S. Feldman (1925-2017) was born in 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts, into an immigrant family from Eastern Europe. Early on he was attracted by the arts and took art lessons Saturday afternoons at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1942, he was admitted to Yale School of Fine Arts. He completed one semester before being called up into the military. He was wounded during his honorable service and turned to his art for help, "Through the pain I learned how to paint too. Pain and painting, I learned the strange verbal connection" ( Walter Feldman: Notes on His Life and Work by James Schevill, p.14) He returned to Yale in the Fall of 1946 and completed his BFA in 1950. He continued on at Yale for his graduate studies; his teachers included William de Kooning and Josef Albers. Both had a lasting influence on his work. It was during the 1950s that Feldman absorbed the different artistic currents and forged his own style. 1953 was an important year for Feldman, he began his five decade long relationship with Brown University and had his first solo exhibition at the "Artists Gallery" on Lexington Avenue in New York City.
WALTER FELDMAN (AMERICAN, 1925-2017) THE WASHER WOMEN, 1955 Oil on canvas: 20 x 30 1/4 in., 20 1/2 x 30 3/4 in. (framed) Original frame; lower right signed: Walter Feldman Exhibited Providence Art Club, 1956
WALTER FELDMAN (AMERICAN, 1925-2017) THE LADY, 1954 Oil on canvas: 30 x 22 in. Unframed; lower right signed: Walter Feldman; verso label: exhibited Kraushaar Galleries
Walter Feldman, American b.1925 -2017- Untitled Abstract, 1967; oil on paper, signed and dated 1967 lower left; inscribed with best wishes and good fortune Walter Feldman on the reverse, 76x56.5cm (unframed) Provenance: Acquired from the artist Note: Walter Feldman was a twentieth-century American artist who was known for his paintings, woodcuts, and larger-scale public installations of stained glass and mosaics. Feldman studied at the Yale School of Art in the 1940s under artists such as Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers. After graduating from Yale University School of Design he began teaching art at Brown University, where he became Professor of Art in 1961. Feldman’s output was informed by trips to Europe, encountering the arts of France and Italy as part of the Alice Kimball English Travelling Fellowship, which he was awarded in 1950, and working in Rome upon receiving a Senior Fulbright Scholarship in 1957. This was followed by travels to Spain, Turkey, and Israel, where he studied the production of mosaics. Feldman has won a number of prestigious awards for his artworks, including a gold medal for a self-portrait which he exhibited at Milan’s Mostra International, and a print prize from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Feldman’s works have been exhibited extensively since his first solo exhibition, which was held at the Artist’s Gallery in New York in 1953. His artworks are held in a number of significant collections across the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. This piece is unframed, there is a minor tear on the lower right. And a crease. Overall the piece is in good condition.
Rhode Island, New York, Italy,1925 - 2017 Includes an abstract print of black sketchy lines forming geometric shapes within a circle, a depiction of black and white angular shapes, and a copy of "Ghost Names... Ghost Numbers..." by James Schevill and Walter Feldman. Book 10 1/8" x 10 1/4" Frame 31" x 38 1/4"
Walter Feldman. American. 1953. "Ram's Horn (The Torah Holder)". Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed and dated lower left corner. The Artist's Gallery NYC stamp to reverse. Light wear at edges. Stretcher warped slightly and twisted. Sight: 40 x 30in.
Walter Feldman. American. 1954. "Jericho". Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed and dated lower left. Exhibited at Bates college and the University of Maine in 1955. Paint loss in lower right quadrant. A few other small areas of paint flakes. Sight: 40 x 26in.
Rhode Island, New York, Italy,1925-2017 Abstracted landscape comprised of angular brown and black structures against blues, greens, and purples. Feldman studied with Josef Albers and Whilhelm de Kooning and received the Childe Hassam purchase prize from the National Academy of Design and the Tonner prize from the American Color Print Society.
WALTER FELDMAN (AMERICAN, 1925-2017) STUDY FOR THE SIGN OF THE EASTERN DESERT, 1957 Acrylic and ink on paper: 22 1/2 x 30 3/4 in. (full sheet) Unframed; lower right signed and dated in graphite: Walter Feldman 1957 Kraushaar Gallery label Note: Walter S. Feldman (1925-2017) was born in 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts, into an immigrant family from Eastern Europe. Early on he was attracted by the arts and took art lessons Saturday afternoons at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1942, he was admitted to Yale School of Fine Arts. He completed one semester before being called up into the military. He was wounded during his honorable service and turned to his art for help, "Through the pain I learned how to paint too. Pain and painting, I learned the strange verbal connection" ( Walter Feldman: Notes on His Life and Work by James Schevill, p.14) He returned to Yale in the Fall of 1946 and completed his BFA in 1950. He continued on at Yale for his graduate studies; his teachers included William de Kooning and Josef Albers. Both had a lasting influence on his work. It was during the 1950s that Feldman absorbed the different artistic currents and forged his own style. 1953 was an important year for Feldman, he began his five decade long relationship with Brown University and had his first solo exhibition at the "Artists Gallery" on Lexington Avenue in New York City.
WALTER FELDMAN (AMERICAN, 1925-2017) SIGN IN THE EASTERN DESERT, 1958 Oil on canvas: 40 x 50 in., 40 1/2 x 50 1/2 in. (framed) Framed; lower right signed and dated: Walter Feldman 57-8; verso inscribed on stretcher: "SIGN IN THE EASTERN DESERT," verso Kraushaar Galleries label, Exhibited Kraushaar Galleries 1958 Note: Walter S. Feldman (1925-2017) was born in 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts, into an immigrant family from Eastern Europe. Early on he was attracted by the arts and took art lessons Saturday afternoons at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1942, he was admitted to Yale School of Fine Arts. He completed one semester before being called up into the military. He was wounded during his honorable service and turned to his art for help, "Through the pain I learned how to paint too. Pain and painting, I learned the strange verbal connection" ( Walter Feldman: Notes on His Life and Work by James Schevill, p.14) He returned to Yale in the Fall of 1946 and completed his BFA in 1950. He continued on at Yale for his graduate studies; his teachers included William de Kooning and Josef Albers. Both had a lasting influence on his work. It was during the 1950s that Feldman absorbed the different artistic currents and forged his own style. 1953 was an important year for Feldman, he began his five decade long relationship with Brown University and had his first solo exhibition at the "Artists Gallery" on Lexington Avenue in New York City.
