Niles Lewandowski Lithograph "Merle"

Item Details

Niles Lewandowski (Maryland/China; 20th century)
Merle, 1970
Lithograph on paper
Signed to the lower right
Numbered 14/16

A lithograph on paper titled Merle by listed artist Niles Lewandowski (Maryland/China; 20th century), dated 1970. The work depicts the portrait of a seated female nude subtly rendered with black and white gradations. The sitter from this portrait corresponds to listed Cincinnati artist Merle Rosen (1949 – 2017), who introspectively reads a magazine next to a luminescent table lamp. The work is signed and dated in graphite to the lower right. It is titled and numbered 14 out of a 16 edition to the lower left. The composition is presented within gray matting.

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 wear and minor toning throughout the matting; minor toning throughout paper; small brown stain to the lower left corner of composition.

Dimensions

- measures the matting; plate size measures 9.5" W x 13.5" H.

Item #

18DCC337-073