Merle Rosen Mixed Media Collages
Item Details
Merle Rosen (Cincinnati, Ohio; 1949 – 2017)
Untitled, 1983
Digital prints, graphite, and colored pencil on paper
Signed and dated to the lower right
A pair of mixed media collages on paper by listed Cincinnati artist Merle Rosen (1949 – 2017), dated 1983. These works feature surrealist compositions rendered with cutout prints of dolls and balloons embellished with graphite and colored pencil backgrounds. They are both signed and dated to the lower right.
Provenance
From the estate of Merle Rosen
Merle Rosen (1949 – 2017) was a prominent Cincinnati folk artist, practicing in Cincinnati for more than 40 years. She showed extensively in museums and galleries including the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati), J.B. Speed Museum (Louisville, KY), Kharkiv Museum in the Ukraine, Cincinnati Art Galleries, Carnegie Arts Center (Covington, KY), Chaucer Galleries (Scottsdale, AZ), and C.A.G.E. During her lifetime, Rosen received six individual artists grants from the City of Cincinnati. In addition to institutional and private collections, Rosen’s work his housed in numerous corporate collections, including: The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati Bell, Scripps Howard, Bethesda Hospitals, Ulmer & Berne and Cardinal Aluminum. Rosen worked in a multitude of mediums and she began teaching art professionally at the age of 15 and taught throughout her career.
Condition
- minor billowing to paper; pigment smudges to margins to composition.
Dimensions
- each work measures.
Item #
18DCC337-098