Price: $500.00
Unbound. Small group of items related to American artist Samuel Maitin. 1. Serigraph print: "Promenade". Titled and Signed in pencil "S. Maitin". 10" x 10.5" (image size 7.5" x 7"). Tape shadows in upper corners from previous mounting, pencil mark in upper margin, none of which affects the image, near fine. 2. Broadside or Poster: "Samuel Maitin. Prints, Paintings Drawings Etc. Armand Mednick. Ceremics. Gallery 1015 has the Honor to Invite you to a Preview Viewing..." Approximately 22" x 26". Folded as mailed, else fine. Artwork on the poster by Maitin. 3. Envelope hand-addressed by Maitin (with his name and Mednick's in the return address) sending the poster; postmarked in 1964. Tears where the envelope was opened. the poster is from an early exhibition by the prolific Philadelphia artist who is well represented with works at MOMA, The Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, etc. who was well-known for his public art including the “peace prints” he made with poets C.K. Williams and LeRoi Jones (aka Amiri Baraka).
Item #385653
