Mid-Century Art: Robert Lyons

I have to give it to Joe, he keeps finding treasures at the Park Avenue Motel. This time it's in the form of the art on the walls. He has a collection of Robert Lyons mid-century art prints that used to hang in the rooms. (The drummer/limbo-dancer prints in the middle are by another artist, Amoroso.)

Joe was nice enough to mail me a Robert Lyons painting of my choice and I picked the vases. Photos don't do it justice, the colors jump of the canvas.

I did everything I could to find out more about Robert Lyons the artist, but other than other images of his work (which you can see with a Google image search of his name), there's not a lot of info out there.

He worked in the '50s and '60s and his prints seemed to have been mainly framed by the Franklin Picture Company. On the back of my print is "Franklin Picture 1334" and while the number is shared by other versions of this print, it's not exclusive to this print, though it might be exclusive to Lyons prints.

There are however a lot of artists named Robert Lyons, but when you see this one's work, you'll be able to spot it instantly. It helps that all the prints are signed by Robert Lyons and that signature looks like this.

I haven't found a good place to hang my new print so right now it's just sitting on the mantle.

It will find a good home on the wall soon.