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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 20^th 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 Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI