Alabama Lawrence St Curb Market Art print by Anton Haardt

Description

Alabama  Lawrence Street Curb Market
Art  print  Americana by Anton Haardt
Signed
by Anton Haardt, Author of
Mose T: A to Z:The Folk Art of Mose Tolliver
Southern  Curb Market
Size: 22x 28 inches
(8x10 Lithograph also  available for .00)
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES  GROWING UP IN THE SOUTH
When ever I returned back to the Montgomery  over the years I painted and  photographed the
many  fading  southern sites of people and places  that now are no longer
around. Some of these images are : The Peking Cafe, Gordon's Patio Club
with its  painted swirled  mrype Mrytles and 50's tilework by Eurilie Gordon.....and ....
The Lawrence Street Curb Market
Details:
The Lawrence Street Curb Market , a image of  Southern nostalgia
The curb market was a landmark in the  Montgomery , Alabama Garden District- back in the 1950's . Originally an open air market  offering fresh produce, it was  built around 1950 by Emmanuel Williams  and  his father. Lawrence Street Curb Market was once near where I lived in Montgomery, Alabama- The townfolk dropped in  some time or other to buy produce-- the past Governor Wallace-- Brooks Shield came while filming a movie there- then of course in  the older days---. noone could resist the shelled field peas...and Chilton County Peaches...Now its just a memory...
I lived two  blocks down the street so I often would  go by to buy  vegetables and fruit- I  drew sketches of the market and photographed it   and created this print in the 1990's.
The Artist Anton Haardt
The  Southern  influence  has been a theme  in  Anton Haardts work for many years. Her art  is in filled with escapism and fantasy inherent in earlier themes, but  also reflects some of the somber  nostalgia of her birthplace-Alabama.
Haardt’s  paintings have been shown  in  the US and
Mexico
since the 1970’s when she  returned from  graduating from San Francisco Art Institue
Haardt says that she  also enjoys   sketching at the  Markets, searching for vibrant material for future artistic projects ---similar to the technique used by  F. Scott Fitzgerald  searching for  materials for his novels.
Haardt began painting as a child when his parents   sent her for her first private art lessons to the
Montgomery Museum of Fine Art
then only a small brick buidingon Lawrence Street where she studied with Mrs Wilkerson..
Haardt's work has a narrative  quality.Over the years, Haardt has been inspired by markets like the well know Lawerence Street Curb Market of which she has made a limited edition.Haardt's work is  richly patterned with textured backgrounds that pull the viewer in to see more of the intricacies of her detailed work.
The diverse influences of tropical, South American and
southern folk art
, combined with her own formal training at The San Fransisco
Art Institute
produce a unique blend of innocence and  sophistication, the surreal and the mundane, intricate patterns and striking irregularities.
See   more  at her website antonart.com
Anton has won awards in local and international competition, showing in New York, France, Mexico, and Key West and in her hometown of Montgomery.
More  prints   are available  on Deepsouthc Ebay Shop  such as:
TACO STAND
,
COLOR LITHOGRAPH /EDITION 600
,
Print 5 X 7
JUNGLE STILL LIFE,COLOR LITHOGRAPH /EDITION 600,
WOMAN  FROM OCUMICHU
COLOR LITHOGRAPH /EDITION 600
CHIAPIS MERCADO
COLOR LITHOGRAPH /EDITION 600
MEXICAN CIRCUS
COLOR LITHOGRAPH /EDITION 600
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