HERE’S A FRAMED SIGNED AND DATED ORIGINAL VINTAGE MODERN WATERCOLOR PAINTING-ON-PAPER TITLED “RED BEAD” CREATED BY MADISON, WISCONSIN ARTIST HELEN KLEBESADEL (B. 1953-) THAT DISPLAYS A WOODEN PLANK FLOOR WITH A SINGLE RED BEAD ACCOMPANIED BY ITS SHADOW!
Please Note: This beautifully-rendered watercolor painting still retains its original white matting, dark-stained wood frame, plexi front, and paper backing. To this end, there is an original gallery label on the backside that reads:
Grace Chosy Gallery
1825 Monroe Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53711
608-255-1211
Artist: Helen Klebesadel
Title: Red Bead
Year: 1997
Art Medium: Watercolor
Edition #:
Paper Size: 6” X 8”
Image Size: 5” X 7”
Frame Size: 12” X 16”
Price: $250.00
Item Id: 9354
Dimensions: The painting itself that can be viewed within the matte board measures approximately four and one half inches (4 1/2”) in height by seven inches (7”) in width but is most likely larger as it extends underneath the matte board. The overall dimensions of the dark-stained wood frame are approximately ten inches (10”) in height by thirteen and one eighth inches (13 1/8”) in width.
Signature: The watercolor painting itself is signed “H. Klebesadel” along the bottom right corner area. And again, there is an original gallery label on the frame’s backside (see information above). Please Note: In addition to the larger gallery label on the frame’s backside, there is a smaller additional paper label underneath the gallery label, as well as another version of the artist’s signature.
Condition: The painting is in excellent and clean condition. The white matte board is generally in excellent and clean condition with a couple of very small markings. The plexi front has some small surface scratches, mostly concentrated at the top right corner of the painting’s image. And the wooden frame is generally in very good and clean condition with small scuffs and scratches here and there. But overall, still a nice example of the artist’s original watercolor painting!
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(the following information is courtesy the website for the Brooklyn Museum)
Helen Klebesadel was born in 1953 and raised in rural Wisconsin. She now resides in Madison, Wisconsin where she maintains her studio. She is best known for her richly detailed narrative watercolor paintings. Klebesadel’s art and prose have been published in Frontiers, Feminist Studies, and CALYX. In addition to private collections, her paintings are in the permanent collections of the American Council on Education, Lawrence University, Madison Area Technical College, and HospiceCare Inc. of Wisconsin.
Klebesadel is an artist and an educator whose teaching informs her art. She has taught studio art and women’s studies privately and on the college level for almost two decades. Her experiences informed the writing of a chapter entitled “Re-Framing Studio Art Critique and Practice” in a recently published book New Museum Theory: An Introduction. She is currently Director of the University of Wisconsin System Women’s Studies Consortium. Klebesadel is a past national president of the national Women’s Caucus for Art from 1994 to 1996, and she is a past member of the Governing Council of the National Women’s Studies Association.
Appointed by Governor Jim Doyle in 2006, she is currently a member of the Wisconsin Arts Board. Exhibiting nationally and internationally, she has had recent solo shows at the Nelson Institute Center for Culture, History and the Environment, at UW-Madison; the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC; and the Tate Gallery, University of Georgia-Athens, Athens, GA.
