Michael Biddle
Artist: Michael Biddle
Date: Unknown
Medium: Intaglio Print-Printed in brownish ink on stiff, fine-grained, pale cream wove paper,
Dimensions: 8.7” x 11.2”
Artist’s Country of Birth: United States
Collecting Genre: Practicing Artist
Accession Number: 834
Visual Description: Sepia tone print with lots of people on the bottom half and mostly brown top with ray of lit hitting the people.
Notes from Ray: 44/250. Note: Michael Biddle is a contemporary American painter and printmaker, he is the son of the famous social realist artist, George Biddle (1885-1973). Michael Biddle began his artistic education at Harvard College (1952-56) and furthered his studies at the Fine Arts Academy, Vienna (1959), the Central School of Art and Crafts, London (1959-60) and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (1961). Biddle’s first major exhibitions date from 1962 when his etchings and lithographs were shown at both the Brooklyn Museum and at the Society of American Graphic Artists. Since that time his art has been exhibited at the Associated American Artists Gallery, New York (1965 & 1967), Seattle Art Museum (1967), Pratt Manhattan Center (1974), National Academy of Design (1977), Rutgers University (1979), Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, (1992), the State University of New York (1995), and many other venues. Michael Biddle has also served as the Chairman of the Fine Arts Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He currently maintains his studio at Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Cheetah belongs to the first decade of Michael Biddle’s career. Many of his earlier works of art deal with social themes and issues and Cheetah – with its masses of humanity and movement – depicts an out of control, ‘baby boomer’ rock concert from the 1960’s. It clearly captures the unique spirit of the times. Cheetah was probably commissioned and published by the Associated American Artists of New York. Today the art of Michael Biddle is included in the following major collections, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Boston Public Library, Library of Congress, Rosenwald Collection, University of Massachusetts, University of Minnesota and the Walter Chrysler Museum. (source: Art of the Print)
Est Current Value: $550
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