Jazz Personalities - Abstract Ballads Monotype Prints by Arthur Secunda - 8 decades of Fine Art Imagery, Paintings and Prints


Al at the Keyboard

Al at the Keyboard a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Anita O'Day

Anita O'Day a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Art Tatum

Art Tatum a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Benny Golson

Benny Golson a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Bille Holiday

Bille Holiday a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Black and Blue

Black and Blue a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Buddy Bolden

Buddy Bolden a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Bunk Johnson

Bunk Johnson a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Chick Corea

Chick Corea a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Chris Botti

Chris Botti a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Chris Connor

Chris Connor a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Chubby Jackson

Chubby Jackson a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Hawk a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Coronet Chop Suey

Coronet Chop Suey a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Count Basie Band

Count Basie Band a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Dexter Gordan

Dexter Gordan a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Django Rheinhardt

Django Rheinhardt a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Gene Krupa

Gene Krupa a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Gertrude "Ma" Rainey

Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Gil Evans

Gil Evans a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Hello Goodbye

Hello Goodbye a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Herby Hancock

Herby Hancock a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

I remember Clifford

I remember Clifford a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Jazz

Jazz a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Jean Babtise Il Jacquet

Jean Babtise Il Jacquet a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Joe King Oliver

Joe King Oliver a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

John Coltrane

John Coltrane a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Lush Life

Lush Life a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Miles

Miles a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Misterioso

Misterioso a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

On the Beat

On the Beat a Handpainted silkscreen by Arthur Secunda

Original Dixieland Band

Original Dixieland Band a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Peggy Lee

Peggy Lee a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Ray Charles

Ray Charles a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Roy Elderidge

Roy Elderidge a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Sarah Vaughn

Sarah Vaughn a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Sidney Bechet

Sidney Bechet a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Slam Stewart

Slam Stewart a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Smoke gets in your eyes

Smoke gets in your eyes a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Stan Getz

Stan Getz a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Stan Kenton and the Band

Stan Kenton and the Band a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Take the A Train

Take the A Train a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Willy the Lion Smith

Willy the Lion Smith a monotype print by Arthur Secunda

Arthur Secunda

Arthur Secunda is an internationally renowned artist whose career has spanned eight decades. His one man shows have been seen worldwide in numerous galleries and museums in France, Sweden, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Israel, and Japan. In the United States, he is represented in most major museums of the country, including the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the UCLA Museum, the Detroit Art Institute, and the Phoenix Museum. Known for his brilliant collages and striking graphics, Secunda has mastered all types of printmaking, even making his own paper in France and Japan. His impressive body of work includes painting, mixed media, polyester assemblage, ceramics and welded sculpture. His studies began at the Detroit Art Institute as a teenager, and continued in New York at the Art Students League and New York University. After a stint in the Air Force as an artist, he then studied, thanks to the GI bill, in Mexico, Paris and Italy, with many great artists and teachers, beginning a lifelong propensity for travel-- living and working in other countries. For decades, he maintained studios in Paris and LA.

He considers himself a landscape artist, and has developed his own iconography in representing nature, the land and its forms, as well as corresponding inner landscapes. He is known for a specific kind of color gradation and blending of forms in many media. His work tends to oscillate between the serene--striated colors in landscapes--to the expressive, as in many of his oil paintings.

After years in Paris, Secunda has maintained a studio in Scottsdale and Colorado for the last decade--doing what he has done in all of the other places he has lived and worked in the last 70 years--creating imagery.