John Baeder Blue Beacon Diner 1980 Art Print Silkscreen Pencil Signed
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Baeder, born in South Bend, Ind., 1938, studied at Auburn University in Ala. His subjects have been almost exclusively isolated roadside diners and eateries. That an artist can concentrate so masterfully on one theme enticed Abrahms to publish "Diners by John Baeder" in 1978.John Baeder is one of the best known of the Photorealists. His popular paintings and prints of roadside diners so capture the pulse of America that his images have entered the secondary market as reproductions on p...osters, calendars, and postcards (here the energy comes full circle, as old postcards were an important source of inspiration for the paintings). The Disney Company, Coca Cola, and fashion moguls Perry Ellis, Liz Claiborne, and Guess-at times even disregarding copyrights-have appropriated them. The diners appear on memorabilia-oriented merchandise, such as painted plates, and in three dimensions as butter dishes, planters, canisters, etc. (part of an extensive ceramic line produced by Sigma/Towle in 1979/80). Their appeal is so strong that the authors of a book on art deco chose to illustrate the sleek design of New York City's Empire Diner with Baeder's highly expressive painting of that diner, rather than with an actual photograph. (Alastair Duncan, American Art Deco (New York: Abrams, 1986)
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