"Abstraction w/ Nails & Wrenches", Signed Collage

American School, third quarter 20th century. "Abstraction with Nails & Wrenches", mixed media collage, signed and dated lower right "'73 Hugh". A square field of grey blue paint with impressions of common tools, with a large ring filling the field created by pressing and rubbing paper over small nails, within the ring upper left are impressions of three allen wrenches, with allover mottled texture to page suggesting a rubbing process used throughout. Framed approximately 32 3/8" x 32 1/8", sight size approximately 27 1/8" x 27". Provenance: From the Estate of Mr. Soichi Furuta, Woodstock, Georgia. Note: Soichi Furuta (1927-2011) was a Renaissance Man of sorts, beginning his career in fine art arena. After attending UCLA, he joined a creative design and packaging firm in New York where he later became president. The firm (Stuart, Gunn & Furuta) was responsible for packaging design for a number of major brands including Michelob, Hershey's, Vicks, and Nestle. Concurrently, Mr. Furuta taught graduate-level courses in design at the City University in New York, later, he served as an adjunct professor of literature at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in North Carolina. Later in life, Furuta penned a dozen books in both English and Japanese with subjects ranging from poetry to translations and even a memoir. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his book of poetry, "Montefeltro the Hawk Nose" that references the artwork of the Italian painter Piero della Fra Read more…