Monochrome Optical Art Study
20th Century Marker

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Dellard Cassity

This mid to late 20th century felt marker drawing on paper is by Illinois artist Dellard Cassity (1926-2008). Cassity graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in Fine Art. While internationally recognized artists such as Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly and Victor Vasarely were pioneering the styles of Hard-Edge abstraction and Optical Art in the world's big cities, Dellard Cassity was quietly doing the same in his small town of Litchfield, Illinois, a drastic change from his early academic and post-academic pieces of the 1940s-50s. 

Mid-Late 20th Century
Felt Marker on Tracing Paper 
24"x24" framed, 12"x13" unframed

Estate stamped lower left. Good vintage condition. Framed in a vintage wood frame with a natural finish using archival matting and spacers behind conservation glass.