Escalet 2021 — Meredith Ward Fine Art

Frank Diaz Escalet (1930-2012)

May 14 - July 30, 2021

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Scene of three 1950s sports cars racing on a road in mostly yellow, browns, red, and green.

English Road Race, 1984
Cut leather on masonite
24 x 29 7/8 inches

Scene in mostly red, brown, and yellow of people riding on the NYC subway reading newspapers.

V.E. Day, 1976
Cut leather on masonite
48 x 36 1/8 inches

Scene of blue-collar workers working in an iron foundry in various colors.

Iron Foundry, 1985
Acrylic on board
18 x 24 1/16 inches

Scene of two lobstermen unloading a trap on a barrel in various colors

Lobstermen, 1976
Cut leather on masonite
42 x 30 inches

Scene of a blue river meandering through a multicolored, mountainous desert landscape.

Painted Desert, 1982
Cut leather on masonite
24 x 30 inches

Scene looking at the backs of a standing and playing tenor saxophonist and sitting, resting trumpeter wiping sweat of his head in the yellow and purple stage lights.

Prez 'n' Blue, 1980
Cut leather on masonite
30 x 24 inches

About the exhibition

Meredith Ward Fine Art is pleased to present Frank Diaz Escalet (1930-2012), an exhibition of 18 paintings and inlaid cut leather works and on view from May 14 through June 25, 2021 (extended until July 30). This will be the first exhibition of Escalet’s work since the artist’s death. Almost entirely self-taught, Puerto Rican-born Escalet was a painter and master leathercrafter, and developed his own technique for creating images out of cut leather that vividly capture the dynamics of a scene.