The Clemmer Collection: A History of New Mexico Print Artists
Peyton Wright Gallery is pleased to present works from The Clemmer Collection in an exhibition of graphic media spanning the period from the late 19th through the mid 20th centuries.
The prints in the collection encompass a variety of techniques ranging from etching and lithography to woodblock, linocut, aquatint, serigraphy and monotype. The collection of fifty works is stylistically diverse with examples of academic realism, regionalism, modernism and cubist-inspired abstraction, presented in the main rooms of Peyton Wright Gallery in museum quality framing.
The collection includes pieces by artists who will be familiar to many, but the primary focus is on the work of lesser-known printmakers. Some of the artists to be exhibited were active in New Mexico for decades, while others visited the state for a few weeks or less.
Once the success and renown of the Taos Society of Artists put northern New Mexico on the art world map, the region began to attract an array of artists from across the country and around the world. Many of them were painters, but artists who worked in the print medium made the trek as well. A significant number of the prints in The Clemmer Collection were produced from the mid-1920s through the 鈥�40s, when widespread economic hardship made it difficult for artists to sell their work. The print medium allowed for an artist to produce multiple images quickly and inexpensively and to sell them at affordable prices.
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Peyton Wright Gallery is pleased to present works from The Clemmer Collection in an exhibition of graphic media spanning the period from the late 19th through the mid 20th centuries.
The prints in the collection encompass a variety of techniques ranging from etching and lithography to woodblock, linocut, aquatint, serigraphy and monotype. The collection of fifty works is stylistically diverse with examples of academic realism, regionalism, modernism and cubist-inspired abstraction, presented in the main rooms of Peyton Wright Gallery in museum quality framing.
The collection includes pieces by artists who will be familiar to many, but the primary focus is on the work of lesser-known printmakers. Some of the artists to be exhibited were active in New Mexico for decades, while others visited the state for a few weeks or less.
Once the success and renown of the Taos Society of Artists put northern New Mexico on the art world map, the region began to attract an array of artists from across the country and around the world. Many of them were painters, but artists who worked in the print medium made the trek as well. A significant number of the prints in The Clemmer Collection were produced from the mid-1920s through the 鈥�40s, when widespread economic hardship made it difficult for artists to sell their work. The print medium allowed for an artist to produce multiple images quickly and inexpensively and to sell them at affordable prices.
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