Mid-Century Art + Design - San Francisco

Prints, Paintings, Furniture, and other Mid-20th Century Artifacts. This blog will update our status and inventory. For questions or comments, please contact us at info@dustymodern.com. Or find us on twitter at @dustymodern. We like talking about this stuff.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Gabor Peterdi Prints

Peterdi (1915 - 2001) taught printmaking at Yale University,  the Honolulu Academy of Art, the Brooklyn Art School, and Hunter College. I think of him as one of the primary printmaking educators of the 20th Century, and also as a terrific abstract artist. We have a variety of his prints, including (but not limited to) "Glowing Tree," printed in 1958 in an edition of 30:




 and "Maui," printed in 1969 in an edition of 200:


Thursday, June 16, 2011

A Chair Can Make a Difference

Our apartment is modest, but sitting in the laundry room hoping desperately for cell phone reception isn't so bad in a 1948 Esavian chair with some succulents nearby on a sunny day.