Get two posters from Leslie Levy Fine Art in Scottsdale, Arizona: the first is "The Blue Cup"  (25" x 25") by Barbara Edidin and the second, a landscape (36" x 25") by Edwin Koch. Both were donated by--and artist-mounted and shrink wrapped by--Framed! Custom Picture Framing & Gallery in Albuquerque.
Artists' bios:
 Barbara Edidin
 
 "One thing that I would like to communicate through my work" says artist Barbara Edidin, "is a sense of abundance". Abundance, richness and opulence are some of the feelings that Edidin's drawings evoke. Working with only colored pencils she creates remarkably realistic still lives composed of simple objects, flowers, fruit and fabric. Despite the humble subjects that compose these arrangements, the result is such a lushness of color and pattern, that it "overflows the eye". " Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1952, Barbara Edidin attended the Kansas City Art Institute, Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University.
During her academic career she became interested in ceramics and fiber arts, especially quilt making. "I came back to drawing through quilting. After a couple of years it dawned on me that I absolutely hate to sew! So I decided to draw the quilts." The influence of her quilting background is apparent in the repeated juxtaposition of patterns and the intricacy of her textile subjects.
Edwin Koch was born in 1937 in Missoula, Montana.  At the young age of 18, Edwin moved to Portland, Oregon where he began his artistic journey studying for two years at the Portland Art Museum School.  After attending the Rhode Island School of Design for 3 years (1958-61), he was drawn back to Oregon where he received his B.S. in Painting and Drawing the University of Oregon.  In 1964, at the age of 27, Edwin returned to school where he received his M.F.A. once again through the University of Oregon.
Edwin Koch is a realist.  Some have described his style as Super Realism.  Through the use of oil on apple wood panels, Edwin strives to use classical values to guide his picture making decisions such as objectivity, formality, balance, simplicity, dignity, restraint and austerity.  Edwin feels that his paintings should be able to speak for themselves, especially when his art form is of such an explicit nature.
 Words are superfluous.  It is the nature of the painting, that it should exist independent and separate from its creator.