Artist:
Richard Mayhew
Title:
Summation
Date:
n.d.
Description:
"Summation" features swaths of oranges, greens, and purples, evoking an abstracted and saturated landscape. Organic lines and a deep orange give the impression of rolling hills, while purple figures stand in the distance along a horizon. This vibrant and blurred landscape is a common theme in Richard Mayhew's body of work. It was printed at the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., with Master Printer Curlee R. Holton.
Edition # W/P.
"Summation" is hanging in the University House Private Sitting Room.
Richard Mayhew was born in 1934 in Amityville, N.Y. He attended the Pratt Institute, New York, N.Y. and earned a degree from Columbia University, N.Y. A deep appreciation for nature, a love of the improvisation of jazz, and interactions with Abstract Expressionists in New York City informed his lush and serene landscapes. During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, he helped form the Spiral Group, a group of artists that aimed to discuss and use art as a tool for social change, that included Romare Bearden and Felrath Hines. His work can be seen in permanent collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Calif., the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y. and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Mayhew currently resides in California.
Edition # W/P.
"Summation" is hanging in the University House Private Sitting Room.
Richard Mayhew was born in 1934 in Amityville, N.Y. He attended the Pratt Institute, New York, N.Y. and earned a degree from Columbia University, N.Y. A deep appreciation for nature, a love of the improvisation of jazz, and interactions with Abstract Expressionists in New York City informed his lush and serene landscapes. During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, he helped form the Spiral Group, a group of artists that aimed to discuss and use art as a tool for social change, that included Romare Bearden and Felrath Hines. His work can be seen in permanent collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Calif., the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y. and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Mayhew currently resides in California.
Technique:
Serigraph
Credit Line:
Gift of Experimental Printmaking Institue
Legal Status:
Copyrights:
© Richard Mayhew, 2015
Photography by Greg Staley, 2017.
© Richard Mayhew, 2015
Photography by Greg Staley, 2017.
Object ID:
ANA2013.02.001
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