Assemblage / Collage

We Don't Roll..., circa 1961, silkscreen of paper collage
24 x 18 inches/61 x 46 cm
Estate of Don and Joan Gilbert Martin


Works of assemblage and collage, groupings of found and often unrelated objects and images gathered together to create a new thing.





ooh! and ah!, 1963, paper collage w/photographs, found frame, inscription on reverse 
3.6 x 14 inches/9 x 36 cm
Private Collection








SO DA, 1970, circa 1964, paper collage w/photographs, found frame
11.4 x 19.5 inches/29 x 50 cm 
Estate of Don and Joan Gilbert Martin







Ode to His Grandfather (Maybe on Sunday)1967, ink drawing on studio photograph, cloth mat, found frame, inscription on reverse
6.5 x 4.5 inches/17 x 11 cm, image
10 x 8 inches/25 x 20 cm, frame
Private Collection







Anatomycirca 1967, paper collage w/sticker dots, found frame
8.5 x 6.5 inches/22 x 17 cm
Estate of Don and Joan Gilbert Martin





Untitled (spiral diagram), 1968, paper collage on distressed wood
12.5 x 8.25 inches/32 x 21 cm
Estate of Don and Joan Gilbert Martin






Made, 1970, paint on cloth, skull, snake spine, sewing machine plate, oak frame
41 x 24 inches/104 x 61 cm
Collection of San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA









To Some Big Bottom Pants Boyscirca 1970, photograph and found objects on wooden box
12.5 x 21.5 x 4.5 inches/32 x 55 x 11 cm
Collection of San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA








To Some Big Bottom Pants Boys, reverse, found objects assemblage  cloth mat, wood frame








The Prints and the Laundress, 1974, playing card & paper collage on wood
13.25 x 9.5 inches/34 x 24 cm, image
15.5 x 11.5 inches/ 39 x 29 cm, frame
Estate of Don and Joan Gilbert Martin









Some of Us Are Married, circa 1968, torn paper and torched paint on wood door
17 x 10 inches/43 x 25 cm
Estate of Don and Joan Gilbert Martin





(photos of art work: Tony Grant © 2017, Rick Pharaoh © 2017, Joan Gilbert Martin)