Wagnerian Rock by Walter Askin

Original screen print, professionally framed with extruded acrylic. Signed ‘Askin’, titled and numbered (lower margin). 81.5 x 56 cm unframed.

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Original screen print signed ‘Askin’, titled and numbered (lower margin). 81.5 x 56 cm unframed. High quality, vibrant colours as fresh as the day they were created. With electric blues and psychedelic colour palette these works are highly evocative of the legendary screen prints coming out of California in the late 1960s. The prints are all professionally framed – black flat closed grain wood with extruded acrylic 68% UV protection.

Please note images of the print within a room setting are for illustration purposes only and not to scale, please check dimensions.

About the artist – Walter Askin

Walter Miller Askin (1929–2021) was an American artist and educator, best known for his printmaking, who was also a painter and sculptor.

Askin’s work has been described as lighthearted and humorous, with an undercurrent of a serious tone, including content on the “dichotomous relationship between the sexes and the criticism of art itself.” He has been inspired by both Western and non-Western art.

In 1954, Askin received his first solo exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Work by Askin was included in the 1956 group exhibition Recent Drawings U.S.A. at MoMA, the Kunstlerhaus Vienna, the Whitney Museum of Art and other venues.

In 2015, the Luckman Gallery presented a solo exhibition of Askin’s art, describing his work as “rang[ing] from sardonic graphic works, large painterly abstractions, to vibrant figurative sculptures.” In 2016, his work was part of the two-person show, Reality Reorganized: Walter Askin and Wayne Kimball’s Mysterious Discursions at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art.

Askin returned to UC Berkeley to teach in 1969 and 1970, and was Professor of Art at California State University, Los Angeles from 1956 to 1992, where he taught studio art and art history.

A recorded interview and transcript of the interview is available at the Smithsonian American Archives of Art. An archive of his papers from 1950 to 1992 is held in the Archives of American Art.

Screen printing

Also called silk screening, screen printing is best for bold designs that need to make an impact on materials like cloth, wood, and plastic. It involves transferring ink through a fine mesh screen onto the material, and some areas are made impermeable to the ink with a blocking stencil. Screen printing can print patterns repeatedly on many materials, and focuses on precision in defining solids. It’s a slower and more expensive process than lithography, but it’s well suited to large print runs. Screen prints are often associated with pop art and artists like Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, and Lichtenstein.