Weidenaar Prints ➔ Print, 'reminiscences Of A Lively Summer During The Dead Of Winter - State I (a.P. #1)' (1 Of 1)
Identifier:
1993.48.249.1Description:
State I. Square. Image of a female figure. Figure is lying down on her back. The view is foreshortened. The view begins with the soles of her feet. Her legs are slightly parted and represented by two round shapes. A bellybutton and two large breasts characterize the woman's upper body. She has curly hair and long eyelashes.;Reynold H. Weidenaar. 6 Jan 1983.. Reminiscences of a Lively Summer During the Dead of Winter. Reynold H. Weidenaar. n.a. St. I. Artists Own T.P. I. State I. Artists own trial proof 1. Reminiscences of a lively summer during the dead of winter. From beach sketches, summer of 1982. 6 Jan 1983. 12. On Bodleian English paper, slightly (over-long damp) foxed. Rag wipe with oily tarleton. FE3O4 ink. H- 15. Tray-acetic, Dutch, perch and nitric. etched on back of old battered plate. Feet squirted by eye dropper with hot (concentrate) nitric. Drypointadded before taking trial proof. Ins. val. 300.00 P.O.R. Plate no. 208. 30 Dec. 1982.. |Date:
1983Materials:
PaperDimensions:
13.75" h 9.125" wCurrent Location Status:
In StorageSource:
Gift Of Jay And Betty Van AndelRelated Entities:
Reynold H. Weidenaar (creator)Reynold Weidenaar was born in Grand Rapids in 1915, the eldest of two children of a Christian Reformed minister. In 1923, at the age of 8, Rey found a drawing of a train on a pile of garbage. The simple line drawing of a locomotive speeding down the tracks caught his eye and galvanized his imagination. And while many 8-year-old boys might love to draw trains, Rey Weidenaar was really, really good at it.
What followed was an extraordinary artistic career that Weidenaar pursued with diligence and passion right up until his death in 1985. While the critical successes of Weidenaar’s career can be measured by the hundreds of awards his works earned, here in his hometown, “Rey” was well known for his trademark red beret and his often-sighted license plate which simply read, “ARTIST.”
Weidenaar saw himself and his work as a bulwark of sanity and realism in an art world that frequently leaned towards the sensational and the abstract. His role as an arbiter of taste for Grand Rapidians is perhaps best summed up by a quote he gave to the Grand Rapids Press in 1978, “Abstract art offends me, and the lifestyle of some abstract artists offends me.” Jay Van Andel (donor) Betty Van Andel (donor)