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Hand signed limited edition print by Charles H. Thies





Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist in pencil






Unframed
 

Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Paper

Hand signed by the artist

Paper Size: 20.5" x 29"

Edition Number: 142/150

Circa 1978

Condition: mint

Retail: $300.00  Unframed

 

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Charles H. Thies

(1940-  )

Contemporary American Realist

 

Charles H. Thies is a fine art painter/printmaker from Colorado. He has been working professionally in the visual arts field for over thirty years. His work has been exhibited in over forty-five museums throughout the United States and has been included in the permanent collections of nine of these museums. Charles' paintings, drawings and prints have drawn the interest and zeal of private art collectors, art consultants and architects from the Midwest through the West Coast. He holds a B.S. and M.A. in Visual Fine Arts and has taught both at the collegiate and secondary levels.


 ARTIST STATEMENT



The nature or essence of things has always intrigued me. For me, "insight" can only come through the demanding process of observational drawing. The communion between the artist and his subject is developed as a result. Simply, the reaction of the artist to that "learning" and knowledge of materials produces the end result - a piece of art!


ABOUT THE ARTIST


Charles Thies is a fine art painter/printmaker who has been working professionally in the visual arts field for over thirty years. His work has been exhibited in over forty-five museums throughout the United States and has been included in the permanent collections of nine of these museums. Charles' paintings, drawings and prints have drawn the interest and zeal of private art collectors, art consultants and architects from the Midwest through the West Coast. His specialties are one-of-a-kind hand-colored monotypes, large canvases - descriptively termed by a national publisher as contemporary realism - and contemporary religious oil paintings of a highly liturgical nature. The work of Charles Thies has been described, by both art proffesionals and layman, as captivating with highly impacted substance. 
 

 

JURIED EXHIBITIONS


1991  All Colorado Art Exhibit, Greenwood Village, CO 
1988  All Colorado Art Exhibit, Greenwood Village, CO  
1986  All Colorado Art Exhibit, Greenwood Village, CO     
1978  Joslyn Biennial, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
1977  Drawings/USA, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN, purchase award
1976  Thirty miles of Art, Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
1975  Mid-South Biennial, Brooks Memorial Art Museum, Memphis, TN
1975  43rd Annual Exhibition, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1972  Mid-South Biennial, Brooks Memorial Art Museum, Memphis, TN
1967  Kansas Annual, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS


INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS


1988  University Museum, Cape Girardeau, MO, One-man Exhibit
1991  Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO, Group Exhibition
1988  Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO, One-man Exhibit
1985  Hastings College, Hastings, NE
1982   Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO, One-man Exhibit
1974  Lindenwood, Colleges, St. Charles, MO 


COMMISSIONS


1998  Our Father Lutheran Church, Littleton, CO, 6' x 5' oil on canvas
1998  Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, Aurora, CO, 66" x 52" oil on canvas
1985  Marriott Hotel, Ft. Collins, CO, six oils on canvas
1969  Kansas State University, exterior mural, 36' x 76'


MAJOR COLLECTIONS


Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museums, Kansas City, MO
The Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS


PUBLICATIONS


1988  Daily American Republic, Poplar Bluff, MO
1988  The Journal, Poplar Bluff, MO
1981  International Personalities, Parma, Italy
1976-present  Who's Who in American Art
1970  Craft Horizon magazine


EDUCATION


Southeast Missouri State University, B.S. 1963
Kansas State University, M.A. 1970

Attended: Kansas University, Washington University, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University, California College of Arts and Crafts, University of Phoenix

OTHER EXPERIENCE


Teaching: Thirty-four years secondary and collegiate instruction in Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, and Nebraska.

Administration: Assistant Director of Admissions, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, 1976-77

BORN


August 22, 1940, Poplar Bluff, Missouri






Lithograph definition: Lithos is Greek for "stone", and a stone surface has traditionally been involved in lithography, though a metal plate may take its place today. Lithography uses simple chemical processes to create an image. For instance, the positive part of an image is a water-repelling ("hydrophobic") substance, while the negative image would be water-retaining ("hydrophilic"). Thus, when the plate is introduced to a compatible printing ink and water mixture, the ink will adhere to the positive image and the water will clean the negative image.

In the 1890s, color lithography gained success in part by the emergence of Jules Chéret, known as the father of the modern poster, whose work went on to inspire a new generation of poster designers and painters, most notably Toulouse-Lautrec, and former student of Chéret, Georges de Feure. By 1900 the medium in both color and monotone was an accepted part of printmaking.

During the 20th century, a group of artists, including Braque, Calder, Chagall, Dufy, Léger, Matisse, Miró, and Picasso, rediscovered the largely undeveloped artform of lithography thanks to the Mourlot Studios, also known as Atelier Mourlot, a Parisian printshop founded in 1852 by the Mourlot family. The Atelier Mourlot originally specialized in the printing of wallpaper; but it was transformed when the founder's grandson, Fernand Mourlot, invited a number of 20th-century artists to explore the complexities of fine art printing. Mourlot encouraged the painters to work directly on lithographic stones in order to create original artworks that could then be executed under the direction of master printers in small editions. The combination of modern artist and master printer resulted in lithographs that were used as posters to promote the artists' work.