The United Gas Pipe Line Company Collection

UGPL 0076 Ligare, David, Sand Drawing 74, 12/75, lithograph, 15” x 20,” 1975

UGPL 0077 Ligare, David, Sand Drawing 71, 12/75, lithograph, 15” x 20,” 1975

UGPL 0153 Ligare, David, Sand Drawing 72, 12/75, lithograph, 15” x 20,” 1975

UGPL 0154 Ligare, David, Sand Drawing 73, 12/75, lithograph, 15” x 20,” 1975

David Ligare (1945- )

Written in 1976 for the catalog and reproduced as printed, with spelling corrected. Not current.

The effect of violent carving of heavy impasto in the foreground, contrasted with horizontal bands of dark, grainy tideland sand, the curving flash of surf, the immutable, distant horizon and the open ocean: these lithographs of Ligare recall the paintings of Adolph Gottlieb, compartmentalized pictographs of “magic realism” or images from a more primitive form of art. With their vertical-horizontal frontality, they are more abstract expressionist than representational, although their naturalistic associations note the existence and mark of man in a vast, unchanging universe.

David Ligare was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1945. He attended the Art Center College of Design and is a member of the American Watercolor Society, which awarded him the Mary S. Litt Award in 1969 and the Monterey Peninsula Award in 1970. Ligare has had one-man shows at the Wickersham Gallery in New York (1969) and the Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York (1974). His work has been the subject of exhibitions in many major museums and he is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Birmingham Museum, the Fairleigh-Dickinson University Collection, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Portland Museum, and many others.

From The Art Collection of United Gas Pipe Line Company (Houston, 1976), curated by Susan Rush.