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This was my first sketch after reading the book. "Double Indemnity," 1999, oil on paper, 11 x 8 inches (collection Wichita Center for the Arts)
"Double Indemnity," 1999, oil on wood, 17 x 13 inches (private collection)
"Double Indemnity," 1999, oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches (private collection)
"Double Indemnity," 2000, monotype with pastel, image 10.5 x 8 inches
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Double Indemnity - Limited Edition 4 of 12 Print

Warren Criswell

United States

Printmaking, Linocuts on Paper

Size: 9 W x 11 H x 0.1 D in

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The 1944 novel by James M. Cain and the movie adapted from it by Billy Wilder have very different endings. In the book Walter and Phyllis manage to get away from the cops, hopping a freighter to Mexico, but they realize they're going to be arrested eventually. And then a strange thing happens. Phyllis becomes what we now realize she had always been, a goddess of death, and Walter sees where she has been leading him. This was an example of how an image can ambush me from a page of text. It inspired several drawings, paintings, monotypes (see additional images) and this linocut. This is a 2-color linocut, image 7 x 5 inches, sheet approximately 11 x 9 inches. It can ship unmounted or matted, white or off-white mat. There are a few left from this edition. The Criswell Linocut I began these experiments with linoleum back in 1999. Although these prints may resemble etchings, drypoints, lithographs or some strange hybrid, they are true relief prints, printed in two or more colors from linoleum blocks. I didn't invent this technique - Picasso and his printer Arnera did - but I've adapted it to my own purposes and, since nobody else in the world is doing it as far as I know, I'm calling it "The Criswell Linocut." The two most important things about this technique are that (1) I cut the designs with a drypoint needle and (2) that I print the dark color first and the light color second. This enables me to draw my image directly on the key block, just as I would draw with a pen on paper, rather than cut away everything BUT the image as in traditional relief printmaking. For more info about this, checkout www.warrencriswell.com/linocuts.html.

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Printmaking:Linocuts on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:9 W x 11 H x 0.1 D in

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"I was a loner as a kid, an only child, the kind that grow up to be terrorists, bank robbers or artists. I wasn't interested in terror but tried robbery, stole a watch in the third grade but got caught and took up art. They haven't caught me at that yet." (Warren Criswell) --- “I am saying that a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do to you.” (James Baldwin) --- Warren Criswell was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1936 and has lived in Arkansas with his wife Janet since their bus broke down there in 1978. Primarily a self-taught painter, Criswell is also a printmaker, sculptor and animator. He has had 41 solo exhibitions in the United States and one in Taiwan. His work has been included in 77 group exhibitions in New York, Atlanta, Washington DC, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Germany and Taiwan, and is represented in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: The Arkansas Arts Center; the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina; The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR; the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Capital Arts Center, Taipei, China; the University of Central Arkansas; Hendrix College; the Center for Arts & Science of SE Arkansas; and the Central Arkansas Library System, as well as in private and corporate collections in the United States, Europe and Asia. --- In 2021 he won the Arksnsas Governor's Award for Individual artist. In 1996 he was awarded a fellowship grant for painting and works on paper by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2003 an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant for painting and drawing by the Arkansas Arts Council. Warren Criswell is currently represented by M2 Gallery in Little Rock and Saatchi Art.

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