George Nama Art
American, b. 1939
George Nama (b. 1939 - ) is an American artist. Nama claims that all his images, whether drawings, etchings or sculptures, are figurative. If they don’t show something that really exists, his configurations “might exist”. Nama’s city of his birth, Homestead, Pennsylvania played a major role in his artistic vocabulary and imagery created in the early 1960’s. Industrial and rugged and largely void of color, Nama recreated familiar city vistas in a rich palette of blacks and grays. Using casein paint, oil sticks, watercolors and inks Nama also masterfully reproduced interiors of his mother’s living room, and his grandmother’s kitchen. Some of the later works, his openly expressionistic sketches of trees, fast and precise, figures and country landscapes point to his transition towards abstraction. Already involved with poets and writers since the early 1960s, Nama collaborated in 1976 with his friend, the French poet and art historian Yves Bonnefoy, on artist’s books. This in turn fostered a series of artist’s books and exhibitions with Alfred Brendel and Charles Simic. During his long career, Nama has been represented in numerous important exhibitions, galleries, and public collections, such as The Morgan Library, the Boston Athenæum, The Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Carnegie Institute. He was recently included in the distinguished international art fairs at Maastricht and the Salon du Dessin in Paris.to
9
14
11
2
9
3
1
1
Overall Height
to
Overall Width
to
5
5
2
1
4
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
14
1
6
14
7,734
4,945
2,504
1,371
9
2
2
1
1
Artist: George Nama
1973 George Nama 'Water I' Gray Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches ( 24.13 x 16.51 cm )
Image Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches ( 24.13 x 16.51 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A: Mint
Additional Details: Limited edition hand-color...
Category
1970s George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
Safety Pin from George Nama's suite " Tight Rope " 1974
By George Nama
Located in Paonia, CO
Safety Pin by American artist George Nama is from ” Tightrope ” a suite of ten lino-cuts published by Monument Press 1974. We see a stark image of a large safety pin with a wire binding it’s movement which changes the viewers concept of what they think they are perceiving. In this series of ten lino-cuts Nama takes ordinary household objects and makes them inoperable by wrapping a wire around the workable part of the object and presenting one object at a time. There seems to be a sense of humor and at the same time profundity with each image. All copies are individually signed and numbered by the artist. This is copy number 5/50 and is touched by hand with watercolor on Arches cover stock paper and printed by Monument Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This print is in excellent condition with the first two letters of the title having been smudged by the artist when he hand wrote it in pencil on the lower left side of the print.
George Allen Nama was born in Homestead near Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania in 1939. In the 1960’s he was part of an international artistic circle in Paris while working at the Atelier 17 with William Stanley Hayter...
Category
1970s American Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
Mod Brutalist Abstract Metal & Painting Heavy Sculpture Bust George Nama
By George Nama
Located in Surfside, FL
George Nama
Genre: Avant-Garde
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Solid Metal Painted White and Black
This is very heavy and solid. I don't think it is bronze. it might be aluminum or steel. ...
Category
1970s Abstract George Nama Art
Materials
Metal
George Nama-Water IV-Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition hand-colored Linoleum cut by George Nama from the "Catalogue of Monuments" Portfolio, printed at Monument Press on Arches Cover Stock. Only 100 portfolios were publi...
Category
20th Century Contemporary George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
The Cricket hand painted etching by George Nama 1978
By George Nama
Located in Paonia, CO
The Cricket is a hand painted etching by American artist George Nama edition A. P. hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. Believed to be from a collection of 9 etchings from the suite titled "The Origin of Language." This etching is raised at the six horizontal red lines and is touched by hand with watercolor in green, pink, white and red colors. It is in excellent condition.
George Allen Nama was born in Homestead near Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania in 1939. In the 1960’s he was part of an international artistic circle in Paris while working at the Atelier 17 with William Stanley...
Category
1970s American Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Etching
George Nama-Air IV-SIGNED
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition hand-colored Linoleum cut by George Nama from the "Catalogue of Monuments" Portfolio, printed at Monument Press on Arches Cover Stock. Only 100 portfolios were publi...
Category
20th Century Contemporary George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
George Nama-Air I-Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition hand-colored Linoleum cut by George Nama from the "Catalogue of Monuments" Portfolio, printed at Monument Press on Arches Cover Stock. Only 100 portfolios were publi...
Category
20th Century Contemporary George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
George Nama-Air II-Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition hand-colored Linoleum cut by George Nama from the "Catalogue of Monuments" Portfolio, printed at Monument Press on Arches Cover Stock. Only 100 portfolios were publi...
Category
20th Century Contemporary George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
George Nama-Air III- Original Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition hand-colored Linoleum cut by George Nama from the "Catalogue of Monuments" Portfolio, printed at Monument Press on Arches Cover Stock. Only 100 portfolios were publi...
Category
20th Century Surrealist George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
Modernist Torn Paper Collage, Paint 1960s Avant Garde Mixed Media George Nama
By George Nama
Located in Surfside, FL
About Nama: In his studio, Nama paints over the right hand pages with gesso, then uses the pages to draw and paint sketches of forms and shapes as they float through his mind. The p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Whistle lino-cut from George Nama suite Tight Rope 1974
By George Nama
Located in Paonia, CO
Whistle by American artist George Nama is from ” Tightrope ” a suite of ten lino-cuts published by Monument Press 1974. We see a stark image of a large whistle with a wire binding it’s movement which changes the viewers concept of what they think they are perceiving. In this series of ten lino-cuts Nama takes ordinary household objects and makes them inoperable by wrapping a wire around the workable part of the object and presenting one object at a time. There seems to be a sense of humor and at the same time profundity with each image. All copies are individually signed and numbered by the artist. This is copy number 5/50 and is touched by hand with watercolor on Arches cover stock paper and printed by Monument Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This print is in excellent condition.
George Allen Nama was born in Homestead near Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania in 1939. In the 1960’s he was part of an international artistic circle in Paris while working at the Atelier 17 with William Stanley Hayter...
Category
1970s American Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
Modernist Torn Paper Collage, Paint 1960s Avant Garde Mixed Media George Nama
By George Nama
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Avant-Garde
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Mixed Media, Collage
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions: 14" x 19"
Dimensions w/Frame: 19.25" x 25.5"
About Nama: In his s...
Category
1960s Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
George Nama-Land I-Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition hand-colored Linoleum cut by George Nama from the "Catalogue of Monuments" Portfolio, printed at Monument Press on Arches Cover Stock. Only 100 portfolios were publi...
Category
20th Century Contemporary George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
"Braid, " George Nama, serigraph, abstract art, ca 1977
By George Nama
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Homestead, across the river from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1939, artist George Nama specializes in abstracted figures rendered in a variety of media that respond to and illuminate the works of writers such as Charles Simic, Yves Bonnefoy and Alfred Brendel. In the 1960's Nama worked in William Stanley Hayter...
Category
1970s Abstract George Nama Art
Materials
Screen
Related Items
Calder, Composition, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris (after)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Calder. Published and printed by Musée National d'Art Moderne, Par...
Category
1960s Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947-1976" Oakland Museum Show Poster
By (After) Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Soquel, CA
"Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947-1976" Show Poster from the Oakland Museum 1976-1977
Silkscreen poster from the Oakland Museum 1976-1977 show "Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947-1976" with a printing of an original drawing (Six Candied Apples...
Category
1970s American Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Cumulus - Mixed Media Abstract Sculptural Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kristina Fjellman, a Minnesota-based visual artist and performer, seamlessly blends sculpture and performance art in her captivating work. She has garnered recognition with exhibitio...
Category
2010s Abstract George Nama Art
Materials
Steel
Calder, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 201, published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed ...
Category
1970s Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Linocut Print, circa 1955 by Eric Newton
By Eric Newton
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eric Newton, British (1893 - 1965)
Title: Untitled - Abstract with Red and Yellow
Year: circa 1955
Medium: Linocut Print, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: EA
Image Size...
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
Serene, female nude linocut by Fernando Reyes
By Fernando Reyes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered linocut, from the Sensual Line series of 4 male and female nudes.
Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received a Bachelor of Fine...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
French Modernist Mourlot Lithograph Vintage Air France Poster Roger Bezombes
By Roger Bezombes
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage French Travel Poster, Air france
Roger Bezombes
(1913-1994) French
Bezombes was a painter, sculptor, medalist, and designer. He studied in Paris, at the École des Beaux-Arts, and was much influenced by his friendship with Maurice Denis. Heavily influenced by surrealism, He worked principally as a painter, adopting the saturated Fauvist colors of Henri Matisse in landscapes and figure studies often based on observation of “exotic” cultures, notably Mediterranean and North African. Constrained, because a very young orphan, to all kinds of professions which provide him with the material means to devote himself to painting - he participated in 1930 in the installation of the exhibition of the Bauhaus at the Grand Palais-, Roger Bezombes is student of the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. (Ecole des Beaux Artes) He was trained in the art of fresco by Paul Baudoüin, René Barotte nonetheless restores that the young man's preference goes to the practice of "truancy" which he uses to make copies at the Louvre Museum. It’s the time when Paul Gauguin’s paintings, Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse are revealed to him by Maurice Denis with whom he will remain close until his accidental death, painting him on his funeral bed on November 14, 1943. He executed surrealist tapestry designs for Aubusson and Gobelin tapestries, posters (winning the Grand Prix de l'Affiche Francaise in 1984), costumes and sets for ballets at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, reliefs and murals. In 1965 he took up medal-making, expressing in his numerous metallic works for the Paris Mint that obsession with found objects which is also evident in his large-scale sculpture and in his posters.
He designed posters for Air France and for the French national railways.
Roger Bezombes went to Africa for the first time in 1936 thanks to a travel grant and received the same year the second grand prize of Rome . In 1937 he traveled around Morocco where he became friends with Albert Camus. The year 1938 offered him both his first solo exhibition at the Charpentier gallery in Paris with paintings and gouaches on the theme of Morocco and the attribution of the national grand prize for the arts, earning him a great journey which , from Dakar to Algiers , takes it through Chad , Tamanrasset and Hoggar.
Roger Bezombes became a professor at the Julian Academy in 1950. For him, 1951 was the year of a trip to Greece and the year where he began his relationship with tapestry work.
Roger Bezombes visited Israel in 1953, Tunisia and Egypt in 1954. He was appointed official painter of the Navy in 1955. Pierre Mazars analyzes that “after a period where we notice the influence of Van Gogh and GeorgesBraque, particularly in his landscapes of Provence, he came to a more schematic writing, the colored spots and the thicknesses of material taking more of importance as the subject. He even performed composite works, half-watercolors, half-pasted papers, in which he incorporated pieces of newspapers”. He was elected titular to the Academy of Overseas Sciences in 1978. "The range of Bezombes' talent forms is remarkable,” writes Lynne Thornton, “ranging from paintings, murals, travel posters, tapestry cartons, book illustrations, monumental ceramic decorations, ballet and theater sets, totem sculptures, sculpture objects, jewelry and medallions”. He was part of the mid century mod School of Paris that included Leon Zack, Bernard Lorjou, Paul Augustin Aizpiri, Gabriel Godard, Michel Henry, Hans Erni, Bengt Lindstrom, Alfred Manessier, Andre Hambourg, Raymond Legueult and Jean Rigaud.
Select Solo Exhibitions:
1938: Galerie Charpentier, Paris
1950, '53, '55, '57: Galerie Andre Weil, Paris
1953:Wildenstein Gallery, London
1954: Institut Francais, Cologne
1956: Galerie Matarasso, Nice
1957: Horn Gallery, Luxembourg; Guilde de la Gravure, Paris
1958: Denys-Puech Museum, Rodez
1962: Musee de l'Athenee, Geneva;
Chateau Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer
1966: Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice
1967: Galerie Martel, Montreal
1968: Romanet-Vercel Gallery, New York;
Reattu Museum, Arles; Le Corbusier Center, Firminy
1969: Galerie Philippe...
Category
1980s Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Lithograph
No title
By César Baldaccini
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture, 1990
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Compression of capsules and wires
Unique work of a series in 500 different copies
Depth: 2.30 cm
A modestly sized compression of ...
Category
1990s Abstract George Nama Art
Materials
Iron
Colin Moore, Holkham Weather, Coastal Art, Limited Edition Print, Art Online
By Colin Moore
Located in Deddington, GB
Colin Moore
Holkham Weather
Limited Edition 3 Block Colour Linocut Print
Edition of 150
Image Size: H 45cm x W80cm
Sheet Size: H 57cm x W 90cm
Sold Unframed
(Please note that in situ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary George Nama Art
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Calder, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 156, published by Aimé Maeg...
Category
1960s Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Flowers - Lithograph by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
By Franco Gentilini
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Flowers is an original modern artwork realized in the1970s by Franco Gentilini.
Mixed colored lithograph
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Edition of 35/100
Inc...
Category
1970s Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Lithograph
H 29.14 in W 21.26 in D 0.04 in
Marsh Marigolds, ALEXANDRA BUCKLE, Limited Edition Contemporary Linocut Print
By Alexandra Buckle
Located in Deddington, GB
Created in 2018 by Alexandra Buckle.
A reduction linocut of marsh marigolds next to a rippling pool of water with a reflected tree.
This is one of a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary George Nama Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Linocut
Previously Available Items
1973 George Nama 'Land IV' Black Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches ( 24.13 x 16.51 cm )
Image Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches ( 24.13 x 16.51 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A: Mint
Additional Details: Limited edition hand-color...
Category
1970s George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
1973 George Nama 'Land II' Multicolor, Black Linocut
By George Nama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches ( 24.13 x 16.51 cm )
Image Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches ( 24.13 x 16.51 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A: Mint
Additional Details: Limited edition hand-color...
Category
1970s George Nama Art
Materials
Linocut
Fragment Replaced, Torn Paper Collage, Paint 1960s Avant Garde Mixed Media
By George Nama
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Avant-Garde
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Mixed Media, Collage
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions: 14" x 19"
Dimensions w/Frame: 19.25" x 25.5"
In his studio, Nama p...
Category
1960s Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
Fragment Replaced
By George Nama
Located in Surfside, FL
In his studio, Nama paints over the right hand pages with gesso, then uses the pages to draw and paint sketches of forms and shapes as they float through his mind. The process is sym...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern George Nama Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
George Nama art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic George Nama art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by George Nama in linocut, paint, charcoal and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large George Nama art, so small editions measuring 7 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Richard Florsheim, Harry Sternberg, and Pierre Garcia Fons. George Nama art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $100 and tops out at $2,300, while the average work can sell for $640.