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Robert Samuel Fried

American, b. 1937
Robert "Bob" Samuel Fried attended New York City College to pursue commercial art and graphics. He worked for some time with local agencies and was eventually awarded a scholarship to Cooper Union, where he studied under painter Nicholas Carone. He soon began to delve into large-scale Abstract oil painting, a departure from the minute mechanical art in which he was trained. He taught at the Provincetown Workshop and worked as an assistant to artist Robert Motherwell. He lived and studied in Madrid from 1963 to 1965, and it was was while in Spain that Fried was introduced to Timothy Leary, a leader of the psychedelic drug movement. At the time, Sandos pharmacy LSD, manufactured in Switzerland, was a legal, over-the-counter headache relief medication in Spain and much of Europe. The drug would eventually become an influence on Fried's most well-recognized work, psychedelic-effect rock poster art. Fried returned to New York in 1965 and was accepted to the San Francisco Art Institute. While earning his graduate degree he worked as a freelance graphic artist and poster designer, becoming involved with the Bay Area's now-famous rock poster art scene. When the rock scene began to slow down, Fried turned his attention once more to fine art with a focus on lithography and other forms of printmaking. Among his works were the delicately designed and executed stamp sheets, which he printed and perforated by hand, and is rumored to have used as stamps to send postcards through the U.S. mail.


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