Lot 59: Original Lithograph by JOE ARDOUVEL

Excerpt: Joe Ardouvel March 29, 1931 - April 28, 2015 Born in Boulder, and educated in the Boulder Public Schools, Joe graduated from Boulder High School in 1949. While attending the University of Colorado, Joe was inducted into Sumalia and Heart and Dagger honor societies, was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, and was an editor-in-chief of The Coloradan yearbook. After receiving his BA in Journalism in 1953, Joe served two years as a second lieutenant in the US Army Intelligence Service. Following his discharge from the army, Joe continued his higher education and received an MA in Journalism from Syracuse University, an MA in English Literature from the University of Colorado, and an MA in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1962, Joe returned to Boulder, Colorado where he began his career as an artist, specializing in woodcuts and serigraphs. Other than a few elective art courses in high school and college, Joe was largely self-taught. Spanning 19 years, his professional output ranged from the Quena Player (1964) to the San Luis Obispo Mission (1983). He primarily created woodcuts and serigraphs (silkscreens) but he also produced linocuts, collocuts, and vacuforms. Joe was descended from a long line of early settlers in Boulder County