Artist: Peter Paone (American, b. 1936)
Date: 1979
Object type: Ink drawing / sketch
Medium: Ink on cream paper
Style: Surrealist / Narrative figurative
Subject: Circus scene
Signature: Signed and dated in lower left corner; dedication on right
Presentation: Housed under glass in silver metal gallery frame with acid-free mat
Dimensions (framed): 20.25 inches height × 16.25 inches width
Provenance: Private art collector and friend of Peter Paone
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age.
Description:
This surrealist ink sketch by Peter Paone depicts a circus-themed composition. The work is signed and dated 1979 in the lower left corner, with a dedication inscribed on the right. The drawing is presented under glass in a silver metal gallery frame with an acid-free mat. Provenance is from a private art collector and friend of the artist. Condition is good, with wear consistent with age.
Peter Paone is an American painter, printmaker, and educator born in Philadelphia in 1936. He grew up in a first generation Italian-American home and studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (now the University of the Arts), where he received a BFA in art education.
Paone's work is characterized by dreamlike, narrative imagery drawn from literature, mythology, and his imagination. He explains: "I work from memory. I work from what I remember from what I've seen." His practice spans painting, drawing, and printmaking, excelling in etching, aquatint, and lithography.
Paone has held senior teaching positions at Pratt Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he established the printmaking department in 1980 and taught until 2009. He has received two Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grants, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (three years in London), a Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Grant, and the 172nd Annual Painting Prize from the National Academy of Design. He was elected an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design in 1981 and a full Academician in 1994.
Selected Museum Holdings:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
National Academy of Design, New York
British Museum, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Yale University Art Gallery
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
James A. Michener Art Museum
Brandywine Museum of Art
Artist: Peter Paone (American, b. 1936)
Date: 1979
Object type: Ink drawing / sketch
Medium: Ink on cream paper
Style: Surrealist / Narrative figurative
Subject: Circus scene
Signature: Signed and dated in lower left corner; dedication on right
Presentation: Housed under glass in silver metal gallery frame with acid-free mat
Dimensions (framed): 20.25 inches height × 16.25 inches width
Provenance: Private art collector and friend of Peter Paone
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age.
Description:
This surrealist ink sketch by Peter Paone depicts a circus-themed composition. The work is signed and dated 1979 in the lower left corner, with a dedication inscribed on the right. The drawing is presented under glass in a silver metal gallery frame with an acid-free mat. Provenance is from a private art collector and friend of the artist. Condition is good, with wear consistent with age.
Peter Paone is an American painter, printmaker, and educator born in Philadelphia in 1936. He grew up in a first generation Italian-American home and studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (now the University of the Arts), where he received a BFA in art education.
Paone's work is characterized by dreamlike, narrative imagery drawn from literature, mythology, and his imagination. He explains: "I work from memory. I work from what I remember from what I've seen." His practice spans painting, drawing, and printmaking, excelling in etching, aquatint, and lithography.
Paone has held senior teaching positions at Pratt Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he established the printmaking department in 1980 and taught until 2009. He has received two Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grants, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (three years in London), a Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Grant, and the 172nd Annual Painting Prize from the National Academy of Design. He was elected an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design in 1981 and a full Academician in 1994.
Selected Museum Holdings:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
National Academy of Design, New York
British Museum, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Yale University Art Gallery
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
James A. Michener Art Museum
Brandywine Museum of Art
