Ernest Freed
Don Quixote
1956

Name: Don Quixote
Brand: Ernest Freed
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ERNEST FREED (1908 – 1974) DON QUIXOTE 1956 Color intaglio, Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Image, 14 ¾ x 8 3/4 sheet, 16 1/2 x 10 ¼ inches. In good condition. The following is taken from "The Art of the Print" "Ernest Bradfield Freed, 'Ernest Freed': A major twentieth century California printmaker and painter, Ernest Bradfield Freed received his formal education from Indiana State Teacher's College (1926), the University of Illinois (B. F. A., 1933), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Iowa (M.A). Freed's first solo exhibition took place in 1936, a year in which he was also awarded a Tiffany Scholarship. Important as both an artist and educator, Ernest Freed first assumed the post of Director of Art Education at the University of Iowa. At this time he also studied printmaking techniques under Mauricio Lasansky. He then became Head of the School of Art at Bradley University and shortly thereafter established a National Print Exhibition. In 1954 (one year before the creation of Adoration of the Magi) Ernest Freed moved to Los Angeles and served as the Head of Printmaking at Otis Art Institute for a twenty year period. At Otis he established the National Print Invitational. From 1936 Ernest Freed's art was exhibited throughout the United States, Canada, England and France. Today his fine prints are included in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, University of Southern California, Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Ernest Bradfield Freed's printmaking techniques were equally impressive in their exploration of both abstract and figurative elements. He both printed and published most of his original prints"

Creator:

Ernest Freed (1908 - 1974, American)

Creation Year:

1956

Dimensions:

Height: 14.75 in (37.47 cm)Width: 8.75 in (22.23 cm)

Medium:

Intaglio

Movement & Style:

Abstract Expressionist

Period:

1950-1959

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Santa Monica, CA

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU411312853752

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With extraordinary passion, skill, innate creativity and determination, Ernest Bradfield Freed emerged as an innovative forerunner in the field of mid-20th century visual arts. Within these art forms, one finds striking examples of that era's experimentation and growth of modern art of the 1940s through early 1970s, both abstract and figurative. He has especially become known for the developments made in the techniques of intaglio engraving and etching, enlarged format and rich overlay of color in the field of two-dimensional printmaking. In an interview, the artist stated, "I tend to work a series of plates on themes such as ballet, the circus or Shakespearean themes, to realize symphony of movement and color, repeating and alternating the motif. There is little attention to pictorial representation, but concern in expressing the total emotional response in terms of human form. The artist and printmaker, has in hand a most trenchant medium, allowing for the expression of profound meanings and relationships in all human emotions."

Freed has left the art world an abundant and long-lasting legacy, and vision, expressing the spiritual struggles, the joys, and the sorrows and hopes of humanity. His artistic training included study at the University of Illinois, the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and the University of Iowa, with nationally known regional painter Grant Wood and internationally known printmaker Mauricio Lasansky, including a strong connection with the Chicago Society of Etchers and Atelier 17. Freed's career in education included, among others, positions at the University of Iowa and Bradley University in Illinois, and 20 years as professor of art at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. Freed proved early in life to be an extraordinary painter, sculptor, educator and, above all, he followed his love for the techniques of printmaking, all with his own personal style. His lifelong creative problem-solving process with the elements of visual art has been lovingly shared with the world. His solo exhibitions were held at the Felix Landau Gallery in Los Angeles, Cranbrook Museum, Winnipeg Museum and in Illinois, Iowa, Southern California and North Carolina University. Ernest Freed passed away in Northridge, California in 1974.