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JAMES KLEEGE Moon--Dog (Parhelion).
Engraving and etching, 1952. 600x905 mm; 23 3/4x35 3/4 inches, full margins. Edition of only 3 (from an intended edition of 10). Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/3 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, proof-like impression of this monumental print.
James Kleege (1921) began as a painter and printmaker and eventually gravitated towards sculpture in the 1950s. He received his BFA from Syracuse University in 1945 and went on to hold various teaching positions. In 1947 he accepted his first teaching position as an instructor at the University of British Columbia and later taught at Atelier 17 in New York.
This print, clearly produced in response to Hayter's teachings on dimensionality and celestial bodies, takes the atmospheric phenomenon known as parhelion (sun dog) as its subject; sun dogs appear as rings or halos around or near the sun and have sometimes been mistaken as other planets or moons.
Kleege also taught at Hunter College and retired from 20 years teaching at Stony Brook University (1966-86).
