Peyton Wright Gallery is pleased to announce the beginning of our 2009 exhibition season with a show of gallery selections featuring significant works from the Washington Color School. Currently on display are
works by Gene Davis,
Howard Mehring and Paul Allen Reed, artists who worked and exhibited in Washington, D.C.鈥檚 avant-garde art scene throughout the second half of the 20th century, and whose work was characterized by a fascination with the expressive possibilities of pure color and complete abstraction. Other works include large-scale watercolors by prominent New Mexican modernist and solar architect,
William Lumpkins, and a number of drawings and lithographs by Tamarind Institute director,
Clinton Adams, among other mid-20th Century paintings and works on paper. This show will be on display until the end of April, 2009.
On Friday, May 1, 2009 Peyton Wright Gallery will host our first opening of the season with an exhibition of works on paper by renowned Bauhaus master,
Herbert Bayer. This monumental collection from the Herbert Bayer estate includes drawings, monoprints, lithographs, and silkscreen prints spanning the entirety of his mature career. This exhibition marks the first comprehensive display of the artist鈥檚 multi-faceted exploration of lithography and print-making. A selection of these works will be on display throughout 2009. Peyton Wright Gallery is a representative of the Herbert Bayer estate.
Other exhibitions in 2009 will include the first posthumous retrospective of paintings and works on paper by expressionist-inspired painter, Deborah McNaughton, as well as exhibitions from the estates of the important Modernists
Paul Burlin and
Raymond Jonson.