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Vintage SID CHAFETZ (1922–2013) Hand Signed and Numbered Woodcut on Paper
$2,000.00
PU 4.14.23Circa 1977, hand signed, and numbered #6/10, a three color woodcut print on paper. Titled “Recent Research Reveals Location of World’s Largest Fastest Food Franchise” this print is exemplary of Chafetz’s use of humor to tackle politics. An emeritus professor of art, at the Ohio State University, one might recognize the landscape depicted below as the university’s campus, a subject often explored in Chafetz’s work. Framed with newspaper clipping attached on back.
About the Artist:
Sid Chafetz (1922-2013) was an artist and professor based in Columbus, Ohio. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he attended Rhode Island School of Design before being drafted into the US Army in 1942. He returned after his service and graduated in 1947. He continued his education in France at L’Ecole Americaine des Beaux-Arts and the Acadãmie Julian, alongside artists Fernand Lãger and Stanley W. Hayter. Chafetz would then teach at The Ohio State University beginning in 1948, and was an active part of developing the printmaking program within the Department of Art. He retired from teaching in 1982 to focus on his own art. Deeply satirical with beliefs, his works bear a haunting style laden with politics, education, and literature.
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