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#1 Cannery Row
(beginning)
6-Color Serigraph
100% cotton paper
200 Limited Edition
small number of artists proofs (without sea gull)
Dated: 1984
Printer: Art Montgomery
#1 Cannery Row-Jeffrey Sax opened his studio/gallery on Cannery
Row in 1982. During that time and several years before, the old derelict
fish canneries were the day and nighttime haunts of artists, passionate
drinkers, young lovers, students, and various other adventures. One had
to merely push their way through a cracked door to enter, at your own
risk, a world of abandoned industrial decay and beauty. The old conveyor
belts were rusted and scattered, roofs were blown off, and large holes
in cement floors revealed the pounding surf 20 feet below. These former
slaughterhouses of fish were now themselves being consumed by the sea.
It was a place where time stood still... Behind this pink facade was a
world left alone... a time of reflection... This was one of the first
self-published serigraphs the artist commissioned from Art Montgomery,
using a moped as a down payment. A small number of artist's proofs are
missing the sea gull through the window. One year after publication this
print found its way into a show at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Jeffrey
Sax was one of the few living artists represented amongst such notables
as Picasso, Warhol, Che'ret, Arthur Rackham, to name a few.
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