VTG Abstract Geometric Print Mid Century Modern Op Art Lucille McBeth Pittsburgh
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Vintage mid century modern Op Art print my Lucille McBeth. The excerpt below was taken from the June 29th, 2006 edition of the Pittsburgh City Paper.
"The McBeths both graduated from Carnegie Tech in the early 1950s with degrees in art. Both were especially talented. Even as a freshman, Luke "was a totally professional cartoonist, " says former classmate Don Ervin. Lucille, a gifted painter, was also a precocious architect, who designed and built a house in ...Deep Creek, Md., as a junior. Both McBeths saw CMU's art program as a launching pad for numerous creative enterprises. "When we came out of there, we were just bursting to try everything, and we did, " says Lucille.
The couple married in 1952 and set up a multi-faceted design practice. Luke produced logos, illustrations and cartoons for a variety of corporate clients such as U.S. Steel, Armstrong Cork and Stoney's beer. The work ranges from restrained modernistic letterhead designs to jaunty, Hanna-Barbera-like cartoons. Lucille, who collaborated on graphics, also painted extensively, developing a distinct style of brightly colored, yet cool and controlled hard-edged abstraction.
Their collaborative design practice turned increasingly to architecture, almost unintentionally. They built a house for themselves, a narrow but elegant box suggesting the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles and Ray Eames. "It just sort of came naturally to us, " Lucille explains. Subsequently, friends and neighbors increasingly approached them to design houses, until their practice was focused primarily on architecture. Remarkably, neither McBeth was ever trained in that profession; each had architects or engineers serve as consultants or advisers. Yet, they produced some 70 architectural projects in locations as distant as Colorado, Arizona and the Bahamas."
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"The McBeths both graduated from Carnegie Tech in the early 1950s with degrees in art. Both were especially talented. Even as a freshman, Luke "was a totally professional cartoonist, " says former classmate Don Ervin. Lucille, a gifted painter, was also a precocious architect, who designed and built a house in ...Deep Creek, Md., as a junior. Both McBeths saw CMU's art program as a launching pad for numerous creative enterprises. "When we came out of there, we were just bursting to try everything, and we did, " says Lucille.
The couple married in 1952 and set up a multi-faceted design practice. Luke produced logos, illustrations and cartoons for a variety of corporate clients such as U.S. Steel, Armstrong Cork and Stoney's beer. The work ranges from restrained modernistic letterhead designs to jaunty, Hanna-Barbera-like cartoons. Lucille, who collaborated on graphics, also painted extensively, developing a distinct style of brightly colored, yet cool and controlled hard-edged abstraction.
Their collaborative design practice turned increasingly to architecture, almost unintentionally. They built a house for themselves, a narrow but elegant box suggesting the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles and Ray Eames. "It just sort of came naturally to us, " Lucille explains. Subsequently, friends and neighbors increasingly approached them to design houses, until their practice was focused primarily on architecture. Remarkably, neither McBeth was ever trained in that profession; each had architects or engineers serve as consultants or advisers. Yet, they produced some 70 architectural projects in locations as distant as Colorado, Arizona and the Bahamas."
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Print will be tube shipped with glassine covering the printed part of the work.
