"Departure #6" - 1976 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper 1976 surrealist lithograph on paper titled "Departure #6" by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). This piece resembles a surreal landscape, but strange creatures and biomorphic shapes. There are similarities to deep sea organisms, trees, distorted shapes, all from the imagination of the artist. Titled, numbered, signed, and dated along the bottom edge: "Departure #6" 9/25 4/9 J. Crabb '76 Presented in a new black mat. Mat size: 15"H x 12"W Paper size: 13"H x 10"W Image size: 5"H x 4"W Jim Crabb is a painter and printmaker, was born in Merced, California. He received his M.A. in printmaking and B.A. in painting at San Jose State, and an A.A. in Fine Arts at San Jose City College. He studied with Geoffrey Bowman, John Hunter, Will Nelson, Al Barella, and Bruce Conner. Crabb's work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including American Drawings in Black and White: 1970-1980, at the Brooklyn Museum, the Twenty-first National Print Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, as well as at the Redding Museum of Art, the San Jose Council of the Arts, the Basel Art Fair in Switzerland, 1976, and Georgia State University. Public collections holding Crabb's work include the Brooklyn Museum in New York, Wichita Art Museum in Kansas, the Redding Art Museum, the Crocker Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California.