Marksofapassion

Stanley Boxer

Stanley Boxer worked with New York Master Printers Catherine Mosley and Janice Stemmerman to print this colorful AbEx intaglio that used aquatint and carborundum as media. "Marksofapassion" was co-published by Associated American Artists (AAA) in New York and Smith-Anderson Editions in California. AAA held a retrospective of Boxer's prints between March 14 to April 7, 1990 which consisted of 73 of the artist's graphic works. "MarksofaPassion" was illustrated on the cover of the catalogue.

"Marksofapassion" was co-published by Associated American Artists (AAA) in New York and Smith-Anderson Editions in California. AAA held a retrospective of Boxer's prints between March 14 to April 7, 1990 which consisted of 73 of the artist's graphic works. "MarksofaPassion" was illustrated on the cover of the catalogue. Stanley Boxer worked with New York Master Printers Catherine Mosley and Janice Stemmerman to print this colorful AbEx intaglio that used aquatint and carborundum as media.

Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Stanley Boxer was born on June 26, 1926, in New York City. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he enrolled in art classes at the Art Students League on the G.I. Bill, studying under Morris Kantor. He then began a full-time career as a painter, working seven days a week in his Manhattan studio. In 1950 he and artist Ara Klausner opened the Perdalma Gallery at 110 East 57th Street, where Boxer held his first solo show in 1953.

Boxer began exhibiting frequently in the mid 1960s, with shows throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. At this time he also began working in sculpture and was given a show of his wood and marble works at the Rose Fried Gallery in 1968. Later, he would add bronze sculpture to his dimensional repertoire, creating a series of hand-painted bronze multiples at the Garner Tullis Workshop in Santa Barbara, CA, in 1984.

In 1971 he gained representation by the Tibor De Nagy Gallery, a professional relationship he would maintain through 1990, and in 1975 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, allowing him to study intaglio printmaking with Kenneth Tyler at Tyler Graphics, Ltd., in Beford Village, New York. There, in 1976, he published his first portfolio of color intaglios, Ring of Dust in Bloom. He would go on to publish another portfolio at Tyler Graphics in 1979, titled Carnival of Animals; thereafter, printmaking would become an increasingly regular medium in Boxer's artistic oeuvre. In 1980 he traveled to San Francisco to take a course in monotype printmaking at the Institute of Experimental Printmaking in San Francisco, CA, where he published a suite of monotypes in 1983.

Stanley Robert Boxer died on May 9, 2000, in Pittsfield, MA.