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Auction Ends: Mar 30, 2012 08:00 PM EDT

Original Art

Anita Kunz, "Oil Crisis"

Item Number
5-DDF
Estimated Value
500 USD
Opening Bid
150 USD

Item Description

 

Artist:  Anita Kunz

Title:  Oil Crisis

Medium:  Paint on board

Image Size:  12.25 x 9.5 inches

Frame Size:  Unframed

Mat Size:  21 x 18 inches

Date:

Signed:  Yes

Item Special Note

 

Canadian by birth, Anita Kunz has lived in London, New York and Toronto, contributing to magazines, design firms, book publishers and advertising agencies in Germany, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Canada, South Africa, Holland, Portugal, France and England.

Her work has been widely published by magazines such as Time magazine, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times, Sony Music, Random House Publishing and many others. Her art has graced the covers of many magazines including Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Time Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine. She has also illustrated more than fifty book jacket covers.

She has been honored with many prestigious awards and medals and her critically acclaimed paintings and sculptures have appeared in galleries world wide, including the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts and the Teatrio Cultural Association in Rome Italy. Her works are in the permanent collections at the Library of Congress, the Canadian Archives in Ottawa, the Musee Militaire de France in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, and a number of her Time Magazine cover paintings are in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC.Anita has been named one of the fifty most influential women in Canada by the National Post newspaper. She has recently received an honorary doctorate from the Ontario college of Art and Design in Toronto. She has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor.