Need a signature for my artwork

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:22 AM, <redacted@aol.com> wrote:

Jill:

Try to find a signature that you like and start signing all of your work. Remember to always make the signature the same. Some artist’s signatures are as impressive as the art itself.

Love you,

Dad

 Read this:

 

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Editorial Reviews

Book Description
Signatures are unique and often reveal something of our individual personalities. In this intriguing book, John Wilmerding-an eminent historian of American art-explores the unconventional use of signatures in paintings. The author focuses on American artists who have not simply signed their works on a corner of the canvas but have intentionally placed their signatures within the pictorial space of the painting. A painter’s name or initials might, for instance, appear as an illusion on a wall or floor, on an object within an interior, or on some form in a landscape. Wilmerding examines such signatures in works by twenty-seven artists from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, including John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Jasper Johns, Andrew Wyeth, and Richard Estes. After providing an overview of signatures in European art, Wilmer-ding looks closely at American painting. He argues that by placing a signature within a painting the artist may be making an explicit association with the setting or situation depicted. He demonstrates that such signatures or inscriptions can be viewed as fragments of autobiography or as concentrated glimpses of self-representation. Beautifully designed and handsomely illustrated, this book brings into focus the myriad and complex meanings of artists’ signatures and is of interest to anyone who admires and studies American art and culture.

About the Author
John Wilmerding is Christopher Binyon Sarofim ‘86 Professor of American Art in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and visiting curator in the Department of American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is the author of many books and articles on American painting and was recently reappointed by President George W. Bush to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Signs-Artist-Signatures-Self-Expression-Paintings/dp/0300097794

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daddio,
 
Is this a book you already have?
 
lerve
 
Jill
 
ps–should i order one of these since i can’t buy yours
 
plan.http://www.sunlandhomedecor.com/322536-p-brazil_lg.html