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Woolworth Building
Hand-pulled photogravure, signed L/R
9 x 7 inches (22.8 x 17.7 cm) image
15 x 13 inches (38 x 33 cm) paper
Tom Baril was born in Connecticut in 1952. He received his BA from the School of Visual Arts in 1980. In 1979 while still at
Visual Arts, he began as Robert Mapplethorpe's printer. Working closely with the photographer he developed the lush quality of
Mapplethorpe's definitive works. Baril gained a reputation as a master printer and began printing for a select group of other
artists and galleries.
Although primarily known as a printer, Baril was quietly making his own pictures. Avoiding the studio, to distance himself
from Mapplethorpe's work, he focused on the urban landscape and architecture. Finally moving into the studio with a pinhole camera,
he began to photograph flowers and make still life photographs of curious objects.
The photographs of Tom Baril range in subject matter from the vistas found along the edge of the flowing currents of Niagara
Falls, to the views found among the urban structures of New York, to the highly arranged still life of organic objects, each pursuit
possessing an intimate beauty and the attention to eloquent pictorial space built upon line and form.
Tom Baril's photographs are in numerous important public and private collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Brooklyn Museum New York, The Fogg Museum, Harvard University, and The Center For Creative
Photography, Tucson.
If
you have any questions regarding any of the art or artists
here, or wish to discuss the possibility of selling
something you own, please contact the following:
Thomas Paul, President
P.O. Box 602
Woodland Hills, CA 91365-0602
Phone: (818) 884-7878
Toll-free: (877) 292-5858
Fax: (818) 884-1252
E-mail: tom@tpaulfineart.com
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