Nationality
American
Artist Dates
1931-1997
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Date of Work
1978
Medium
Postcard
Height
4"
Width
6"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection
Status
Stored: FF_012_D
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Alan Gussow was born in 1931 in New York. Gussow studied at the Pratt Institute and graduated from Middlebury College in 1952. At the age of 21, while attending Cooper Union, Gussow was awarded the Prix de Rome fellowship in painting in 1953. At the time, he was the youngest artist to be given this award. He was a well known conservationist whose love for the environment inspired his abstract landscapes and conceptual work. Gussow has artwork in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary art, and several other museums throughout the U.S.
Additional Information
Artists' Postcards Series II
Color use of brown, orange, blue and green.
UND Art Collections owns 90 copies of this postcard.
Postcard Reverse
Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:
Alan Gussow
Well-rotted Manure/Steaming
Watercolor on paper
© Artists' Postcards 1978, N.Y.C.
Text in top center of postcard:
Artists' Postcards Logo
Text in bottom left of postcard:
Exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, Fall 1978
Four address lines are located on the bottom right side of the postcard.
Condition
Very good