Bidspirit auction | Gendron Jensen Lobster Ink Drawing

Gendron Jensen Lobster Ink Drawing 1975 - Gendron Jensen (American, 1939-2019). Ink on paper drawing depicting the punctured exoskeleton of a crustacean, likely a lobster or crayfish, 1975. Initialed and dated along the lower right; inscribed ”Ah gah sah ain daht” along the lower left. Largely self-taught, Jensen took only two formal art classes. He spent five years at a Benedictine monastery in Wisconsin and seventeen years on a former mink farm south of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. He began to undertake his 'forest eccentric' wanderings during his years in Minnesota, collecting bones and then meticulously drawing them from what he called 'the sacred angle, ' which helped him to connect to the animal's soul. For more than half a century, Jensen focused almost exclusively on drawing wild animal bones found while hiking the north woods of Minnesota or the extensive lands near his adopted home outside of Taos, New Mexico. Jensen's renderings of the intricate infrastructures of wildlife are delicate, precise, and mysterious. He was quoted as saying: ”There is a majesty inherent in bones, a humbling geography that summons me to map its glories, there is a vital resonance in every bone.” Sight; height: 12 3/4 in x width: 24 in. Framed; height: 20 1/4 in x width: 30 1/4 in x depth: 3/4 in. Condition: There are no visible tears or losses. Slight undulation to the sheet. The work is housed under a non-acidic mat. Framed under plexiglass; light wear to the frame, including a few scratches to the plexiglass. Not inspected out of frame.