Item #16-4279 Toads. First edition of the etching. Ken Byler.

Toads. First edition of the etching.

San Francisco: 1975. Color etching. One of 50 signed, numbered and titled impressions. 8 x 8.75 inches on wide margined paper, that is browned...
The Oakland Museum of California owns one work by Byler, who lived in San Francisco in the third quarter of the 20th Century.. Amityville (NY) Record, October 31, 2007, obituaries....Classical painter Ken Byler, who had his work showcased from New York to California, died suddenly Oct. 14, 2007. The 80-year-old Amityville resident had just finished another painting before he died. “He was a towering talent and his work was beautiful,” said
Irene Greenhalgh president of the Amityville Artists Circle. “The art world has lost a gifted painter.”...
Born 1927 in Oklahoma, Mr. Byler traveled with his family and lived all over the Southwest and Midwestern United States. He discovered his passion for art and his talent as a young man. That led to him graduating from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Instituto de Allende in Mexico.
In 1981 he moved to Amityville with his wife Marilyn to live in her mother’s home.
From 1952 to 2006, his award-winning work has been exhibited in many states from Texas to Tennessee. One his finest moments was when he was asked by world reknowned mural artist David Siqueiros to help finish a mural in Cuernavaca, Mexico.



Provenance: The Padover family collection, San Francisco. Item #16-4279

Price: $200.00

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