Four yellow and olive beavers gather around a pale-blue tablet inside a lodge of interlocking branches. Bold black outlines and crosshatched paddle tails give the animals their distinctive character, while the blue ORDER THAI FOOD lettering echoes the tablet's screen and adds a warm note of everyday humor.
Artist: Jay Ryan (The Bird Machine)
Title: Order Thai Food
Date: 2020, printed at lower left
Medium: Screen print on French Speckletone cover stock, printed with five screens
Sheet: 18 x 24 inches
Presentation: Unframed
Pencil signed and numbered 130/183 at lower right, as inscribed. Please see the close-up photograph.
Condition: Light handling wear at the sheet edges and corners. Please inspect all six artwork photographs, including the paper margins and pencil inscriptions.
Shipping: $18.
About the artist
Jay Ryan learned screen printing with Steve Walters at Chicago's Screwball Press beginning in 1995 and founded The Bird Machine in 1999. His distinctive hand-drawn prints combine animals, expressive lettering and offbeat humor. His practice grew from posters for his own band, friends' bands and local music venues. He served as vice president of the American Poster Institute from 2002 to 2007.
♥ 13 Rue Ravignan — Fine Art & Fine Posters
Four yellow and olive beavers gather around a pale-blue tablet inside a lodge of interlocking branches. Bold black outlines and crosshatched paddle tails give the animals their distinctive character, while the blue ORDER THAI FOOD lettering echoes the tablet's screen and adds a warm note of everyday humor.
Artist: Jay Ryan (The Bird Machine)
Title: Order Thai Food
Date: 2020, printed at lower left
Medium: Screen print on French Speckletone cover stock, printed with five screens
Sheet: 18 x 24 inches
Presentation: Unframed
Pencil signed and numbered 130/183 at lower right, as inscribed. Please see the close-up photograph.
Condition: Light handling wear at the sheet edges and corners. Please inspect all six artwork photographs, including the paper margins and pencil inscriptions.
Shipping: $18.
About the artist
Jay Ryan learned screen printing with Steve Walters at Chicago's Screwball Press beginning in 1995 and founded The Bird Machine in 1999. His distinctive hand-drawn prints combine animals, expressive lettering and offbeat humor. His practice grew from posters for his own band, friends' bands and local music venues. He served as vice president of the American Poster Institute from 2002 to 2007.
♥ 13 Rue Ravignan — Fine Art & Fine Posters
