Carmen Cicero -- Untitled (Profile of a Woman), 1968

Carmen Cicero -- Untitled (Profile of a Woman), 1968

Carmen Cicero  - Untitled (Profile of a Woman)
Lithograph on Rives Heavyweight, an English rag paper
Pencil signed on the front
Numbered 39 on the main colophon page, from the limited edition of 250
from the portfolio New Jersey Volunteers for Eugene McCarthy

From Portfolio of Reproductions, by artists in residence in N.J., issued by N.J. Volunteers for McCarthy,1968 (Democratic Senator from Minnesota, author and poet  - NOT to be confused with the Fascist Joseph McCarthy from a decade earlier). New Jersey Volunteers for McCarthy in Roosevelt, New Jersey, to raise visibility and support for Eugene McCarthy’s anti-war presidential campaign.
Unframed - never framed
Signed ‘Cicero’.  This work is from the edition of 250 printed by Pearl Seligman and published by New Jersey Volunteers for McCarthy, Roosevelt, New Jersey.
Carmen Cicero
Carmen Cicero was born on August 14, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey. From 1947 to 1951, Cicero attended the New Jersey State Teachers College (now Kean University), Newark, and in 1953, he briefly pursued graduate work in painting at Hunter College, New York, studying under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell. The two abstract painters and their circle of artists, poets, and musicians were immensely influential for Cicero, whose singular explorations of abstraction coalesced within the overarching New York school of his teachers and friends.