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THBJames Francis Gill (Born 1934) American, Signed Serigraph on Canvas
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveMar 29, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 1 of our 2 day auction weekend! There are multiple lots of fine art from mixed medias and abstracts to landscapes and lithographs. We have a Bill Mack Swarovsky Crystal Sculpture, Movie Ephemera, Modern Furniture, Art Glass Sculptures, Park West Gallery Artworks, and more. Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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James Francis Gill (Born 1934) American, Oil on Canvas. Surreal image of an eye in center surrounded by colors and shapes. Signed in acrylic bottom right. Title: Surreal Jackie III."
Size: 34 x 25 1/2 in.
#6515 .
James Francis Gill was born in 1934 in Tahoka, Texas, and grew up in nearby San Angelo. His mother, an interior decorator and entrepreneur, encouraged his artistic interests, but in high school Gill and some friends started a rodeo club to pursue their first dream of being cowboys. He was accepted to the United States Army, where he worked as a draftsman and designed posters. After being discharged he returned to Texas and studied art at San Angelo College while working for an architectural firm. In 1959 Gill moved to Odessa to study at the University of Texas at Austin while working in architecture design, but his artist career soon outpaced his architectural aspirations and he left school to focus on it full time. In 1962 Gill moved to Los Angeles, bringing with him numerous works that would be foundational to the growing Pop Art movement. His large Women in Cars was presented at the Felix Landau Gallery, and in November of that year the Museum of Modern Art in New York added his three-part painting of Marilyn Monroe called Marilyn Triptych to its collection. At an exhibition on modern art in San Francisco the following year his drawing Laughing Women in Car and Close-up was shown between drawings by Picasso and Odilon Redon. In 1965 Gill was hired to teach painting at the University of Idaho, but his work there over the next two years was often depressing and bleak in tone and mood, haunted by social and political themes brought on by his anti-Vietnam War stance. His work The Machines caught the attention of the art world as well as the pacifist movement, a composition that joined media coverage of the United States with combat conditions overseas. This led him to handle contemporary issues through a blend of photographic and expressionist styles more and more, becoming one of the leading proponents of Pop Art in the south. In 1967 the São Paulo 9 - Environment United States: 1957-1967 in Brazil showed Gill’s works alongside artists such as Andy Warhol and Edward Hopper. This exhibition led to Gill’s breakthrough in the international art world, and soon his works were included in collections of major museums in Europe and South America. His 1968 cover for Time Magazine portrayed the Russian Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who had escaped from a Soviet labor camp, in a unique quadriptych. The original piece hung in the lobby of the Time-Life Building for the next five years, joined at different times by his portraits of John F. Kennedy and The Beatles. In 1969 Gill taught at the University of California in Irvine, followed by a visiting professorship at the University of Oregon in Eugene the next year. In 1972 Gill went into a self-imposed exile, wishing to develop his style without continually being labeled a “Pop Artist.” He sold his house and all possessions so he could buy land in Whale Gulch in the southern portion of the King Range Wilderness in northern California. He spent the next decade working solely on architectural design commissions before returning to Texas to explore painting once more in the mid 1980s. The Smithsonian American Art Museum held an interview with him that led to a resurgence in interest in his works, and in 1987 he became one of the first artists to begin using computers and printers as drawing tools. Since the dawn of the 21st Century he has returned to Pop Art, focusing less and less on political figures and more on classic icons like Monroe, Paul Newman, and John Wayne. Now in his nineties he continues to make art, setting the image composition of his paintings on a computer with mounting effects which he describes as Metamage or Mixed Media.
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34 x 25 1/2 in.
