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Secunda: Blue Ocean.
Original Serigraph. Edition of 250 signed and numbered by the artist.
Image: 38 x 22 inches. Paper: 44 x 28 1/4 inches.
Price: $350.

Secunda: Olympus.
Original Serigraph. Edition of 250 signed and numbered by the artist.
Image: 40 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches. Paper: 48 x 32 1/2 inches.
Price: $650.

Secunda: Saddle Back Mountain.
Original Serigraph. Edition of 250 signed and numbered by the artist.
Image: 40 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches. Paper: 48 x 32 1/2 inches.
Price: $650.

Secunda: Sunrise.
Original Serigraph. Edition of 200 signed and numbered by the artist.
Image: 30 1/2 x 24 inches. Paper: 38 x 30 1/2 inches.
Price: $1,250.

ARTHUR SECUNDA Biography

The international career of American artist Arthur Secunda is marked by versatility and success.

Born in New Jersey in 1927, he attended New York University and the Art Students League, continuing his art studies in Paris with Ossip Zadkine, Andre L'hote, and at the Academic de la Grande Chaumiere.

For years, Secunda supported his art (and himself) by working at a variety of jobs which included being a milkman, museum curator of education, jazz pianist, university instructor and lecturer, radio and TV personality, art critic, factory worker, illustrator and ceramic designer. He now devotes full time to his art and presently divides his residence between Los Angeles and Southern France.

A listing of one-man shows numbers over eighty. They include exhibits at the Musee Reattu in Arles (France), the Palm Springs Desert Museum (California), and the international Art Fairs at Basel, Paris and New York.

Secunda's works are collected by a wide public as well as many important institutions in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

This impressive list includes the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and numerous European and other institutions.

He is particularly noted for his brilliant collages and striking graphics. J.M. Rouquette, Director of the Arles Museum, has said "Secunda's collages make use of a very seductive, original and somewhat mysterious technique in which the actual shredding (of paper) coincides with a very personal philosophy of color."

His graphics have been acclaimed in Europe and the U.S. for their lush color and technical inventiveness. His innovations in the art of the print have inspired two grants to the Tamarind Lithography Workshop and a residency at the Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporain in Geneva.

At the moment, Secunda is working with new cast paper techniques in France and the U.S. This project has taken him to the famed 16th century paper mills of Richard de Bas in France where he was invited to experiment creating collages from pulp and castings at the paper's very origins.

A Partial Listing of Arthur Secunda's Public Collections

• Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH
• Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
• The Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. IL
• Atlantic Richfield Company Corporate Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA
• Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
• Beverly Hills Library, Beverly Hills, CA
• Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
• Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
• The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• California State College, Los Angeles, CA
• The Collection of The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
• Continental Bank of Chicago, Chicago. IL
• Detroit Bank and Trust, Detroit, MI
• Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
• The First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Grunwald Center For The Graphic Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
• Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
• International Cultural Center For Youth, Jerusalem, Israel
• Jewish Community Center, San Diego, CA
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Belgie, Brussels, Belgium
• Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Malmo Museum, Malmo Sweden
• Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
• Musee Cantini, Marseilles, France
• Masee Fabre, Montpellier, France
• Musee d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France
• The Museum Of Modern Art, New York, NY
• National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C.
• National Gallery of Art, lVashington, D.C.
• National Museum. Stockholm, Sweden
• The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox And Tilden Foundations, New York, NY
• Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
• The Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
• Oostende Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Oostende, Belgium
• Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
• Ramparts Publishing Company, Palo Alto. CA
• The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
• Sears Art Collection, Chicago. IL
• Singer Corporation, New York. NY
• Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• Standard Oil Graphic Art Collection, Chicago, IL
• Stanford University Art Collection, Palo Alto, CA
• State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
• Student Union, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
• Upplands Konstforening, Uppsala, Sweden
• Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT