Ronald Shap | Blue Drape, 1991
Original gouache interior painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Vibrant piece of a chair and footstools with bold orange and blue background. 24x18 inches on Strathmore 400 130 lb paper. Signed.
This piece is a part of Shap's '80s Interiors Collection, a vibrant Neo-Pop series of nudes and still lifes rendered in neon or pastel colors painted between 1981 and 1992. His erotic and sometimes grotesque nudes are reminiscent of Egon Schiele, and the Miami Vice / Memphis Design pastel trend that dominated the 1980s art world can be clearly seen in his still lifes.
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Ronald Shap was born in Toledo, OH in 1941 and lived most of his life in California. He was a scholarship award graduate at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1964 and completed graduate study in painting at the University of Nebraska and Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1967. He was a visiting artist and instructor at BGSU in 1973-74 and worked out of his Los Angeles studio and taught drawing and anatomy at Citrus College until his retirement in 2005.
Original gouache interior painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Vibrant piece of a chair and footstools with bold orange and blue background. 24x18 inches on Strathmore 400 130 lb paper. Signed.
This piece is a part of Shap's '80s Interiors Collection, a vibrant Neo-Pop series of nudes and still lifes rendered in neon or pastel colors painted between 1981 and 1992. His erotic and sometimes grotesque nudes are reminiscent of Egon Schiele, and the Miami Vice / Memphis Design pastel trend that dominated the 1980s art world can be clearly seen in his still lifes.
Please contact us about framing and matting options.
Ronald Shap was born in Toledo, OH in 1941 and lived most of his life in California. He was a scholarship award graduate at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1964 and completed graduate study in painting at the University of Nebraska and Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1967. He was a visiting artist and instructor at BGSU in 1973-74 and worked out of his Los Angeles studio and taught drawing and anatomy at Citrus College until his retirement in 2005.
Original gouache interior painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Vibrant piece of a chair and footstools with bold orange and blue background. 24x18 inches on Strathmore 400 130 lb paper. Signed.
This piece is a part of Shap's '80s Interiors Collection, a vibrant Neo-Pop series of nudes and still lifes rendered in neon or pastel colors painted between 1981 and 1992. His erotic and sometimes grotesque nudes are reminiscent of Egon Schiele, and the Miami Vice / Memphis Design pastel trend that dominated the 1980s art world can be clearly seen in his still lifes.
Please contact us about framing and matting options.
Ronald Shap was born in Toledo, OH in 1941 and lived most of his life in California. He was a scholarship award graduate at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1964 and completed graduate study in painting at the University of Nebraska and Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1967. He was a visiting artist and instructor at BGSU in 1973-74 and worked out of his Los Angeles studio and taught drawing and anatomy at Citrus College until his retirement in 2005.
