Art
Hank Virgona, "Studio Interior Hot Plate," 1985, pencil and watercolor on paper, 21 x 18
- Item Number
- A-2
- Estimated Value
- 500 USD
- Opening Bid
- 160 USD
Item Description
Born in Brooklyn on the eve of the Great Depression, October 1929, Hank Virgona did not evince an active interest in art until he left the Army some 23 years later. His early ambition was to be an illustrator and his forays into illustrating led to many commissions from prominent magazines and newspapers: Fortune, Harpers, Argosy, and Seventeen, andThe New York Times Op Ed page. Satirical works skewing various power centers were published worldwide and his etchings were complied in the book, The System Works (Da Capo Press) for which he also wrote several essays. In its introduction, Pete Hamill said, "He is on the side of Goya and Daumier, George Grosz and Kathe Kollwitz." He gave up commercial work in the late 60's to concentrate on his own ideas, which evolved mainly into still lifes in which the objects became metaphors for his feelings. His work can be found in a number of public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of the City of New York; the New York Public Library Print and Drawing Collection; Wichita Museum of Art; Skidmore College Print Collection; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Collections; the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and others.
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