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Pueblo, 1986, Silkscreen
20 × 15 in | 50.8 × 38.1 cm Signed and numbered 55/100
Piece is sold unframed.
Artist: Roy Ahlgren
The Story: Roy Ahlgren (1927-2011) was an American artist known for his mathematically precise op art and hard-edged geometric abstractions. Born in 1927 in Erie, Pennsylvania Wikipedia, Ahlgren was a self-taught painter who began working in the op and hard edge technique in 1964.
During the 1960s he worked as an artist-designer for the Louis Marx Toy Company in Erie and was a partner in Erie's Galerie 8 art gallery. In 1970, he began teaching art at Tech Memorial High School—the same school from which he had graduated—and retired in 1990 to paint full time.
Ahlgren's compositions depicted motion and volume through modulated color, created using both serigraphy and traditional painting. His work showed influences from Victor Vasarely but maintained a more lyrical style. Over his career, he received more than 60 prizes, including purchase awards from the Seattle Art Museum, Minot State College, Texas Tech University Museum, and the Mississippi Art Association.
His work resides in over 100 institutional collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, and museums in Norway, Japan, Poland, Vietnam, Brazil, and the Netherlands. He exhibited widely at prestigious venues including the National Academy of Design and the Library of Congress.
Pueblo, 1986, Silkscreen
20 × 15 in | 50.8 × 38.1 cm Signed and numbered 55/100
Piece is sold unframed.
Artist: Roy Ahlgren
The Story: Roy Ahlgren (1927-2011) was an American artist known for his mathematically precise op art and hard-edged geometric abstractions. Born in 1927 in Erie, Pennsylvania Wikipedia, Ahlgren was a self-taught painter who began working in the op and hard edge technique in 1964.
During the 1960s he worked as an artist-designer for the Louis Marx Toy Company in Erie and was a partner in Erie's Galerie 8 art gallery. In 1970, he began teaching art at Tech Memorial High School—the same school from which he had graduated—and retired in 1990 to paint full time.
Ahlgren's compositions depicted motion and volume through modulated color, created using both serigraphy and traditional painting. His work showed influences from Victor Vasarely but maintained a more lyrical style. Over his career, he received more than 60 prizes, including purchase awards from the Seattle Art Museum, Minot State College, Texas Tech University Museum, and the Mississippi Art Association.
His work resides in over 100 institutional collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, and museums in Norway, Japan, Poland, Vietnam, Brazil, and the Netherlands. He exhibited widely at prestigious venues including the National Academy of Design and the Library of Congress.