Print of the Day!! Thurs, Oct 5, 2023 is by Juliette Steele (1909-1980): "Cell Block", lithograph, ca 1948, 3/6.
Print of the Day!! Thursday, October 5, 2023. Abstract Surrealist printmaker Juliette Steele (1909-1980). Check out our virtual booth at the Satellite Print Fair's on-line website: OnPaper.art: https://onpaper.art/the-annex-galleries
"Cell Block" is an original lithograph, done around 1948 by California Surrealist printmaker Juliette Steele (1909-1980). The image measures 9-1/4 x 13 inches. This impression is pencil signed, titled, and editioned "3/6" by the artist in the lower margin. It was printed by the artist on a sheet of ivory wove Warrens Oldestyle paper that measures 12-1/2 x 17 inches. The gallery inventory number for this work is 24669.
This rare, surreal lithograph by California printmaker Juliette Steele is available from the gallery.
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Juliette Steele studied intaglio printmaking with Atelier 17 founder Stanley William Hayter in the summer of 1948 when he taught at California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and that time cemented her interest in the Abstract Surrealism that she had studied while working with surrealist artist Clay Spohn in San Francisco. The idea of the 'automatic' or 'gestural' line was an important Surrealist concept that evolved into Abstract Expressionism here in the United States.
"Cell Block" is an example of a geometric abstraction that was prevalent 1940s and 1950s. The Museum of Modern Art defines Geometric Abstraction as a form of abstract art the combines geometric, "hard-edge," or linear forms. Steele seems to have easily moved between styles in the 1940s: her lithographs of San Francisco's Playland and Fisherman's Wharf are modernist in their style while others embrace gestural abstraction. Steele's editions were quite limited as there really wasn't a ready audience for abstraction or works by Women artists at that time. Curator/print scholar David Acton has an informative essay about her work on page 58 of 'The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints', Worcester Art Museum, 2001.
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Juliette Steele was born in Union City, New Jersey on 21 July 1909. She studied art and fashion design at the Traphagen School of Design in New York during the late 1920s. Julia Wilm Dodig married British born Percy Cyril Edward Steele in Reno, Nevada on 20 June 1944. The couple moved to San Francisco, Julia changed her first name to Juliette, and she enrolled in the San Francisco State College earning her Bachelor of Art degree. In the 1940s, Steele produced a series of lithographs depicting San Francisco landmarks and she may have printed with WPA printer Ray Bertrand although no records have been located to definitely link her with the California WPA Federal Art Project.
In the early 1940s Steele earned her Master of Fine Arts from Stanford University and continued her studies at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco where she studied with Ray Bertrand and Clay Spohn. Steele also studied with Stanley William Hayter, founder of Atelier 17, during the summer of 1948 and learned the process of intaglio printmaking. The following year Steele taught printmaking at the California School of Fine Arts.
Steele's first solo exhibition was mounted at the Artists Guild Gallery in San Francisco in 1947 and the following year an exhibition of her prints was featured at the Weyhe Gallery in New York. Louis Bunce's The Kharouba Gallery in Portland, Oregon presented a solo exhibition of Steele's paintings and prints in 1949. Juliette and Edward Steele were residents of San Rafael, California in the mid 1950s where they operated Steele's Patio Shop and raised their sons. Juliette Eleanor Wilm Steele died on 4 March 1980 in San Rafael, California.
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