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LOT OF 5 off-set PRINTS by
JON CORBINO, N.A. (1905-1964) ready for Framing
Quite a few of
Jon Corbino, N.A., (1905-1964) paintings were reproduced by off-set printing.
These 5 examples were never framed and reside in Corbino’s estate. In general
they are in excellent condition stored in pH balanced (acid free) archival
boxes for decades. Although, my photographs have much to be desired. There is
text on the front of each print which can easily be covered with a mat and your framing.
1. Circus Performers in
Sarasota: semi-gloss
paper 18 x 12 inches. Teaching poster 2002. Printed text on verso.
John and Mable
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL. “Jon Corbino: Circus Paintings in
Sarasota Collections,” February 2-May 12, 2002. The John and Mable Ringling
Museum of Art Proudly Presents: Images from the World Between: The Circus in
Twentieth-Century American Art, February 2-May 12, 2002. p 33, 34, 37, 38. Pre-Tour
Education Package. Table of Contents: Lesson 4: Circus Art: Calder, Corbino and
I….p 33. Materials Overhead
transparencies, Aesthetic Theory Cards “Catalog of the Greatest Collection of
Circus Art Ever Assembled!” Activity Booklet. Jon Corbino Teaching Poster. P
34. Tell students that they will now imagine they are world famous collectors
of circus art! Pass out black and white or color copies of selected focal works
of art from Images From The World
Between: The Circus in Twentieth Century American Art” and the Jon
Corbino Teaching Poster. Tell students that a concurrent exhibition at The
Ringling Museum features works of art from another famous artist, Jon Corbino,
who also used the circus as subject matter for his paintings. Corbino lived in
Sarasota for eight years (wrong LC Winter 56-57, 58-59, 59-60 pur house 3/1960
back to Rockport summer of 1960) and spent time sketching at the winter
headquarters of The Ringling Bros. and discussions about the works by Calder,
Marsh, Riggs, Eameses, Kuhn and Weegee. P 37. Collector’s Catalog of Circus
Art. “If I Collected Circus Art:
Activity. Featuring the Combined John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Exhibitions: Images From the World Between: The Circus in Twentieth-Century
American Art and Jon Corbino: Circus Art. p 38. “If I Collected Circus Art:
Activity Directions: Use this list of selected works of art from Images From the World Between: The Circus in
Twentieth-Century American Art and Jon Corbino: Circus Art to help you decide
which work of art YOU would choose if you collected circus art. Which art
work is the best in the show, based upon your criteria: Is it the same work you
would choose to add to your circus collection? Examine each work of art
carefully before you choose!
2. La Masquerade:
semi- gloss paper size 11 x 14 inches. The original painting was in the former
collection of an executive of Jahn & Ollier Engraving Co. and printed this
between 1955-1959. Note: the white border is bright white unlike my photo that
has a blue tint. Printed text lower left: Compliments Jahn & Ollier
Engraving Company.
3. Circus Impromptu: semi-gloss paper size 12 x 9 ½ inches. Printed as an experiment in 1959 by Scheb Printing in Sarasota, FL for Jon Corbino. No printed text.
4. Flood Detail: heavier matte paper size 11 ½ x 13 ½ inches. Edition: Unknown original edition. The original painting is in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
Text:
(left to right) “Flood Detail” by Jon Corbino; Courtesy Scribner’s (magazine); 1937 National Committee for Art Appreciation,
One Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N.J. National
Committee for Art Appreciation, Jersey City, NJ. “48 of the World’s Most Famous
Paintings”, 1937. Sales booklet. The Story of an idea. (Briefly) To sell
reproductions of Old and Moderns Masters available to the masses. Presented the
proposition to Richard Storrs Childs, son of Starling W. Childs, who recently
gave $10 million to Yale University to back the $250,000 cost. Marketed the
reproductions through 50 important American newspapers. P 3. “12 Fascinating Lessons in Art Appreciation” Each
week’s set of four FAMOUS PAINTINGS is accompanied by an eight page Art
Appreciation lesson. These lessons read like stories revealing the exciting
biographies of the artists and the colorful histories of their work. More than
200 pictures illustrate the series. They explain who you like some pictures and
dislike others –why some pictures dink rapidly into oblivion –why others are
called masterpieces and are valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Complete collection: $4.95 postpaid or .49 for each of 12 Groups. Group 12,
American, Twentieth Century: John Steuart Curry….Line Storm. Grant Wood…Arbor
Day. Rockwell Kent………Winter Scene. Jon Corbino……Flood Detail (now in collection
of Brooklyn Museum) p 18 Group 12 American Painting 20th CENTURY.
(ill. Flood Scene) Caption: FLOOD SCENE by Jon Corbino (b. 1905) Private
collection. FLOOD SCENE by Jon Corbino was selected as a representative
painting by a brilliant artist of the younger generation. Here is a unified and
complete subject conveying the confusion and terror of a flood. It mirrors the
tremendous vitality of the artist’s approach. Corbino gets up in the middle of
the night to paint; he is often found in the morning asleep at the easel,
clothes spattered with paint, brush still in hand…It was Corbino’s force and
vigor that led Homer St. Gaudens to select one of his paintings for the
Carnegie International Exhibition. Further recognition came in the form of two
successive Guggenheim fellowships. The Kohnstamm prize of the Art Institute of
Chicago was followed by purchases by the Addison Gallery of American Art as
well as the Toledo and Worcester Museums. Last winter two large one-man shows
of his work were held simultaneously in New York while this season a large
collection of his paintings is being circulated though the country.
5.
Rehearsal on Red Stage semi-glossy
paper 13 1/8 x 12 ½ inches. Text on verso. 1985-1986. The Corbino estate was
given copies like this one that were never bound inside Splash magazine. The solid
black background is solid black unlike the image where the lower right corner
is lighter and grainy.
“1/4 page Gallery Ad and Full page inside back cover,” Splash (Sarasota, FL) May 1986, n 5 pp 25, [ill. Rehearsal on Red Stage] Caption: Rehearsal on Red Stage by Jon Corbino © 1985 Corbino Galleries. p 25 CORBINO GALLERIES, Contemporary Fine Arts Richard Anuszkiewicz, Humberto Calzada, Jill Cannady, Jon Corbino, Julio de Diego, Jeffrey Kronsnoble, Doris Leeper, Jean Claude Rigaud, Helen Sawyer, Syd Solomon. INTRODUCING: Robert Busard-Thompson, Eric Ernst, Mindi Katzman, and Michael Solomon. MIRA MAR PALM CENTRE, 69 South Palm Avenue, Sarasota, Florida 33577. 813-955-8845. Inside back cover: CORBINO GALLERIES/ 69 South Palm Avenue, Sarasota, Florida. Color, Inc., Laser Color Separations, 813-756-4582.
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JON CORBINO, N.A.
1905 – 1964
Jon Corbino was one of the most acclaimed artists of the American art world. New York critics praised his smoldering color and sweeping draftsmanship, characterized his images as running the gamut from the clamorous tempests of Wagner to the frolicking breezes of Mozart.
Feature articles about Corbino appeared in Esquire, Time and Life as well as in all the national art magazines. In 1945, at the height of his career, his paintings appeared on the covers of three art magazines. Corbino received the first grant awarded to a visual artist from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1941. The poet Stephen Vincent Benet made the presentation at Carnegie Hall, praising Corbino "because he has brought to American art rare gifts of color and design, and because of the honesty, richness and variety of his work."
Born in Vittoria, Sicily, on April 3, 1905, Corbino came to the United States at the age of eight with his parents. He grew up in New York City, where he was awarded an art scholarship to the Ethical Culture School and attended the Arts Students League. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design.
As early as 1931 Corbino's work was included in museum exhibitions with artists such as Degas and Matisse. His work was featured in three Venice Biennales and he won his first national award at the Art Institute of Chicago for a painting titled Earthquake.
People identified with Corbino's heroic themes, which revealed the anxieties of America during the 1930s. The critic from Art News observed, "Only thirty-three years old, Corbino has already become one of the foremost figures in contemporary painting." These paintings of disasters such as wars and floods were Corbino's tribute to the perseverance of man against the unknown forces of the universe.
Corbino was known for his love of horses, sometimes painting these powerful animals as mythic symbols from the Greek legends of his childhood. He painted the fantasy of the circus and the ballet, often from backstage where the performers were captured in a reflective moment.
The critic of the Chicago American defined Corbino's impressive career for a retrospective exhibition in 1966. "He painted people of the world-people on the beach, in the sun, in the moonlight. But he graced them with spirit, life, and movement that transcend the everyday."
Museum and Public Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Art Students League, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum of American Art,
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
New Britain Art Museum, New Britain, CT
Canajoharie Art Gallery, Canajoharie, NY
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, MA
Fuller-Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA
Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL
Addison Gallery of Fine Arts, Andover, MA
Lotus Club, New York, NY
First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Society, Sarasota, FL
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Oberlin College Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Howard University, Washington, DC
Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
Amherst College Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, University Park, PA
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
University of Oklahoma Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY
Wellesley College Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
St. Boniface Episcopal Church, Sarasota, FL
Hebron Academy, Hebron, ME
Georgetown Library, Washington, DC
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
National Art Museum of Sport, Indianapolis, IN
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Madison
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
United States Post Office, Long Beach, LI, NY
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Hillstrom Museum of Art, St. Peter, MN
Golisano Children’s Museum of Naples, Naples, FL
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
New Britain Institute, New Britain, CT
The Art Gallery, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
State Teachers College, Maryville, MOThe
Kalamazoo Art Institute, Kalamazoo, MI
State Teachers College, Maryville, MO
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR.
Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL (formerly called Sarasota Art Association)
The Art Gallery, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, NY
Ogden Museum, New
Orleans, LA.
Hillsdale College,
Hillsdale, MI.
Cici and Hyatt Brown
Art Museum, Daytona Beach, FL
The Marguerite Hettel Weiss Collection and Gallery, Northern Arizona University Art Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
The Modern Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
J. P. Morgan Chase Corporate Art Collection,
Paducah Junior College Foundation (
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