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Some of Gelb's Prints (Etchings & Lithograph)
Gelb, Jan. Night Wind. 1947. Etching (printed in relief), third state, plate: 10 x 12 in. (25.4 x 30.5 cm); sheet: 12 x 15 5/8 in. (30.5 x 39.7 cm). Syracuse University Art Collection, New York.
Gelb, Jan. Space Traveller. 1955. Etching and aquatint, plate: 23 9/16 x 17 15/16" (59.8 x 45.5cm); sheet: 26 3/16 x 20 1/16" (66.5 x 50.9cm)
Gelb, Jan. Of Things To Come. 1957. Etching and relief, 16 in. x 19 1/2 in.
Gelb, Jan Channels of Night. 1957. Color etching and relief. Courtesy of Julie Heller Gallery.
Gelb, Jan. Pair of prints including Sun in a Puddle, 1972, 30 x 22 in. (sheet), ed. 3/20 and The Six Days of Creation, 1965, 24 x 20 in. (sheet), ed. 13/25, lithograph in colors, each is titled, numbered, signed and dated along the lower margin recto, unframed. Provenance: Private Collection, Glenside, PA.
While working at Atelier 17 in the late 1940s, Gelb began producing a series of dream-inspired etchings (which were printed in relief with black ink). However, the prints she made later in her artistic career (1950s to early 1970s) were completely abstract, yet continuously communicating nature related aspects, especially the dunes of Provincetown, MA – her favorite place. She also did some lithograph prints later on, as shown by Sun in a Puddle, 1972 and The Six Days of Creation, 1965.
Jan Gelb was always a curious individual, and eventually became interested in psychoanalysis (the field in which her youngest brother, Lester, worked in).
Gelb's etchings all echo a similar quality – this surrealistic, dream imagery. She was always a curious individual, and eventually became interested in psychoanalysis (the field in which her youngest brother, Lester, worked in).
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