Artist:
Richard Mayhew
Title:
A Landscape for Bob
Date:
2013
Description:
Multi-colored. Primarily orange, blue, green, and yellow. Created from a watercolor painting.
Edition #29/90.
Like many of his other works, this landscape by Richard Mayhew features large swaths of brilliant colors. Here, a sliver of blue sky is visible above a large horizontal block of greens, followed by a horizontal stripe of yellow that fades to a deep orange at the bottom of the piece. This particular serigraph was commissioned by the David C. Driskell Center and printed by Master Printer Curlee R. Holton at Raven Limited Editions in Easton, Pa., to raise funds for the 2014 exhibition "Passages: Robert Blackburn," an exhibition dedicated to the prints of Robert Blackburn - an artist, teacher, and printmaker who established the Printmaking Workshop in New York City, N.Y., in 1947, a printshop that was a home to many of the most well-known artists of the time - which was organized by the Driskell Center. The title of this piece refers to Robert Blackburn.
"A Landscape for Bob" is hanging in the University House Private Dining Area.
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 #29/90.
Like many of his other works, this landscape by Richard Mayhew features large swaths of brilliant colors. Here, a sliver of blue sky is visible above a large horizontal block of greens, followed by a horizontal stripe of yellow that fades to a deep orange at the bottom of the piece. This particular serigraph was commissioned by the David C. Driskell Center and printed by Master Printer Curlee R. Holton at Raven Limited Editions in Easton, Pa., to raise funds for the 2014 exhibition "Passages: Robert Blackburn," an exhibition dedicated to the prints of Robert Blackburn - an artist, teacher, and printmaker who established the Printmaking Workshop in New York City, N.Y., in 1947, a printshop that was a home to many of the most well-known artists of the time - which was organized by the Driskell Center. The title of this piece refers to Robert Blackburn.
"A Landscape for Bob" is hanging in the University House Private Dining Area.
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
Legal Status:
Copyrights:
© Richard Mayhew, 2015
Photography by Greg Staley, 2017
© Richard Mayhew, 2015
Photography by Greg Staley, 2017
Object ID:
ANA2020.01.001
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