Gordon Rayner Canadian mixed media Drumstick print 1974 (unframed)
Untitled, Drumstick by Gordon Rayner Colour silkscreen on paper with drumstick attached
Image Size: H 21 x W 19
Paper Size: 24 x 24
Dated: 1974
Limited Edition silkscreen prints with attached drumstick. Signed, dated and numbered along the bottom. Created as part of the limited edition series by the Artists Jazz Band, 1974, Av Isaacs Gallery, Toronto. The prints all relate to the theme of jazz. A complete portfolio of all nine prints is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
Coming soon: A limited number of framed Drumstick prints will be available soon for $525
“Untitled, Drumstick” comes from a series of prints created by nine Canadian artists who were associated with a group called The Artists’ Jazz Band which was active from 1962 to around 1985. The prints were put out by the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto in 1974, and originally came in a wood and masonite box with two phonograph recordings. The objective was 100 complete sets; we believe fewer than 50 were actually completed.
The prints all relate to the theme of jazz. The Artists’ Jazz Band itself was a pioneering Canadian free-jazz group initially composed of Toronto visual artists associated with the abstract-expressionist movement of the late 1950s. Collectively self-taught, it was formed in 1962 in a studio over the First Floor [jazz] Club by Dennis Burton, who played saxophone, and Richard Gorman, who played bass — both were members only briefly — with Graham Coughtry (trombone), Nobuo Kubota, (saxophones), Robert Markle (tenor saxophone and piano), and Gordon Rayner (drums). It included on a casual basis many other artists and musicians, including Bill Smith, Michael Snow, the bassist Jim Jones, and the guitarist Gerald McAdam.
Gordon Rayner was born in 1935 in Toronto. Renowned for his manipulation of painting materials, Rayner has been called “the carpenter” of contemporary Canadian art. He learned his craft from his father, a landscape painter, and worked in various commercial art firms, including Wookey, Bush and Winter with Jack Bush. An exhibition of William Ronald’s work at Toronto’s Hart House turned his attention to abstraction. Rayner’s early 1960s work, with its juxtaposed materials, experiments in canvas shape and sense of humour, reflects the neo-dada mood then prevalent in Toronto. In time he became a sumptuous painter of Canadian landscape, especially the area around Magnetawan, Ontario, where he had a cabin. Rayner has said, “I took the AJB there a couple of times and I’ll never forget the tiny rowboat struggling across the river, barely above the waterline, laden down with the complete band, including a saxophone, trombones, a contrabass, and a whole set of drums.”
Rayner’s work boldly ricochets from one concern to another, even within the same painting, though his inventions are united by his broad touch and spectacular sense of colour. Rayner’s works are in more than 38 private and public collections across Canada.
Gordon Rayner died on September 26, 2010, two weeks shy of opening a solo show in Toronto.
PLEASE NOTE: Each Drumstick print is different. Rayner played with the splay of paint with each one. If you favour a lighter or darker one, please message us. Otherwise we just choose! They are all unique, interesting and mesmerising in their own way. We will ship flat as it could damage the artwork to attempt to roll it.
Untitled, Drumstick by Gordon Rayner Colour silkscreen on paper with drumstick attached
Image Size: H 21 x W 19
Paper Size: 24 x 24
Dated: 1974
Limited Edition silkscreen prints with attached drumstick. Signed, dated and numbered along the bottom. Created as part of the limited edition series by the Artists Jazz Band, 1974, Av Isaacs Gallery, Toronto. The prints all relate to the theme of jazz. A complete portfolio of all nine prints is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
Coming soon: A limited number of framed Drumstick prints will be available soon for $525
“Untitled, Drumstick” comes from a series of prints created by nine Canadian artists who were associated with a group called The Artists’ Jazz Band which was active from 1962 to around 1985. The prints were put out by the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto in 1974, and originally came in a wood and masonite box with two phonograph recordings. The objective was 100 complete sets; we believe fewer than 50 were actually completed.
The prints all relate to the theme of jazz. The Artists’ Jazz Band itself was a pioneering Canadian free-jazz group initially composed of Toronto visual artists associated with the abstract-expressionist movement of the late 1950s. Collectively self-taught, it was formed in 1962 in a studio over the First Floor [jazz] Club by Dennis Burton, who played saxophone, and Richard Gorman, who played bass — both were members only briefly — with Graham Coughtry (trombone), Nobuo Kubota, (saxophones), Robert Markle (tenor saxophone and piano), and Gordon Rayner (drums). It included on a casual basis many other artists and musicians, including Bill Smith, Michael Snow, the bassist Jim Jones, and the guitarist Gerald McAdam.
Gordon Rayner was born in 1935 in Toronto. Renowned for his manipulation of painting materials, Rayner has been called “the carpenter” of contemporary Canadian art. He learned his craft from his father, a landscape painter, and worked in various commercial art firms, including Wookey, Bush and Winter with Jack Bush. An exhibition of William Ronald’s work at Toronto’s Hart House turned his attention to abstraction. Rayner’s early 1960s work, with its juxtaposed materials, experiments in canvas shape and sense of humour, reflects the neo-dada mood then prevalent in Toronto. In time he became a sumptuous painter of Canadian landscape, especially the area around Magnetawan, Ontario, where he had a cabin. Rayner has said, “I took the AJB there a couple of times and I’ll never forget the tiny rowboat struggling across the river, barely above the waterline, laden down with the complete band, including a saxophone, trombones, a contrabass, and a whole set of drums.”
Rayner’s work boldly ricochets from one concern to another, even within the same painting, though his inventions are united by his broad touch and spectacular sense of colour. Rayner’s works are in more than 38 private and public collections across Canada.
Gordon Rayner died on September 26, 2010, two weeks shy of opening a solo show in Toronto.
PLEASE NOTE: Each Drumstick print is different. Rayner played with the splay of paint with each one. If you favour a lighter or darker one, please message us. Otherwise we just choose! They are all unique, interesting and mesmerising in their own way. We will ship flat as it could damage the artwork to attempt to roll it.
Untitled, Drumstick by Gordon Rayner Colour silkscreen on paper with drumstick attached
Image Size: H 21 x W 19
Paper Size: 24 x 24
Dated: 1974
Limited Edition silkscreen prints with attached drumstick. Signed, dated and numbered along the bottom. Created as part of the limited edition series by the Artists Jazz Band, 1974, Av Isaacs Gallery, Toronto. The prints all relate to the theme of jazz. A complete portfolio of all nine prints is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
Coming soon: A limited number of framed Drumstick prints will be available soon for $525
“Untitled, Drumstick” comes from a series of prints created by nine Canadian artists who were associated with a group called The Artists’ Jazz Band which was active from 1962 to around 1985. The prints were put out by the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto in 1974, and originally came in a wood and masonite box with two phonograph recordings. The objective was 100 complete sets; we believe fewer than 50 were actually completed.
The prints all relate to the theme of jazz. The Artists’ Jazz Band itself was a pioneering Canadian free-jazz group initially composed of Toronto visual artists associated with the abstract-expressionist movement of the late 1950s. Collectively self-taught, it was formed in 1962 in a studio over the First Floor [jazz] Club by Dennis Burton, who played saxophone, and Richard Gorman, who played bass — both were members only briefly — with Graham Coughtry (trombone), Nobuo Kubota, (saxophones), Robert Markle (tenor saxophone and piano), and Gordon Rayner (drums). It included on a casual basis many other artists and musicians, including Bill Smith, Michael Snow, the bassist Jim Jones, and the guitarist Gerald McAdam.
Gordon Rayner was born in 1935 in Toronto. Renowned for his manipulation of painting materials, Rayner has been called “the carpenter” of contemporary Canadian art. He learned his craft from his father, a landscape painter, and worked in various commercial art firms, including Wookey, Bush and Winter with Jack Bush. An exhibition of William Ronald’s work at Toronto’s Hart House turned his attention to abstraction. Rayner’s early 1960s work, with its juxtaposed materials, experiments in canvas shape and sense of humour, reflects the neo-dada mood then prevalent in Toronto. In time he became a sumptuous painter of Canadian landscape, especially the area around Magnetawan, Ontario, where he had a cabin. Rayner has said, “I took the AJB there a couple of times and I’ll never forget the tiny rowboat struggling across the river, barely above the waterline, laden down with the complete band, including a saxophone, trombones, a contrabass, and a whole set of drums.”
Rayner’s work boldly ricochets from one concern to another, even within the same painting, though his inventions are united by his broad touch and spectacular sense of colour. Rayner’s works are in more than 38 private and public collections across Canada.
Gordon Rayner died on September 26, 2010, two weeks shy of opening a solo show in Toronto.
PLEASE NOTE: Each Drumstick print is different. Rayner played with the splay of paint with each one. If you favour a lighter or darker one, please message us. Otherwise we just choose! They are all unique, interesting and mesmerising in their own way. We will ship flat as it could damage the artwork to attempt to roll it.
