Want more images or videos?

Request additional images or videos from the seller

1 of 4

Alfred P. Maurice
Down
1983

$4,750List Price

About the Item

Down, 1983, acrylic on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 32 x 48 inches, signed and titled verso, “Maurice 136” inscribed verso, exhibited: Alfred P. Maurice, Recent Works, R.H. Love Modern, Chicago, IL, from March 11 to April 9, 1988 (label verso); literature: Mentzer, Emily, The Alfred Maurice Prize, Polk County Itemizer – Observer, May 4, 2016 (illustrated) Alfred Paul Maurice was a 20th Century American painter, print maker, muralist, photographer, art professor and administrator. A New Hampshire native, Maurice began work as a professional artist in 1939 and 1940 as a mural painter for the National Youth Administration of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). At the age of eighteen, Maurice and fellow artist Raymond Pinet completed a twenty-foot-long mural in Nashua, New Hampshire, depicting colonial farmers leaving their fields to join the minutemen during the American War of Independence. After high school, Maurice studied art at the University of New Hampshire. During World War II, he served in the US Army Air Corps as an illustrator-draftsman in the Pacific Theater. Following the war with support from the GI Bill, Maurice received Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from Michigan State University. Initially, Maurice became best known as a print maker when he exhibited in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Print Club Print National, the Audubon Artists Annual, and the Michigan Artists Exhibit. In addition to his fine art practice, Maurice worked as an art professor or administrator at Macalester College (1947-49), State University of New York at New Paltz (1950 – 1957), Maryland Institute College of Art (1957- 1959), Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (1960 – 1965), and University of Illinois at Chicago (1965 - 1986), where he served as the Chairman of the Art Department and Professor (and Professor Emeritus) of Art and Design. In 1977, he left administrative duties behind to teach and allow more time for his creative pursuits. In the late 1970s through the 1990s, Maurice’s practice focused on Neo Immaculate paintings, drawings and prints of Chicago, San Francisco and other places he lived and visited. These works were the subject of solo exhibitions at A. Montgomery Ward Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago (1982), the Archer Gallery of Art of Clark College (1997), and the Cannon Gallery of Art (Western Oregon University) (2020). Maurice also had solo exhibitions in New York (Three Arts Gallery), Maryland (Vagabond Theatre), Michigan (Central Michigan University, Civic Theatre, Kalamazoo, MI, Art Center, Kalamazoo, and Michigan State University), Illinois (Hartmann Center Gallery, Bradley University, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Joy Horwich Gallery, 3 Illinois Center and R.H. Love Galleries), and Oregon (Comus Gallery). His works were included in national juried group exhibitions, including at the Butler Institute of American Art, the National Pastel Society, the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic, the Coos Art Museum, the Pratt Graphic Arts Center, the Audubon Artists Annual, and the National Arts Club. From these exhibitions, Maurice earned numerous awards for artistic achievement, including: The 30th Annual Dr. David Soletsky Award from the National Society of Artists in Casein and Acrylics, The Medal of Honor for Graphics from Audubon Artist’s Annual in New York, the 32nd Annual Marion de Sola Mendes Memorial Award from the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic and the Reginald L. Dellow Award at the 16th Union League Club Competition and Exhibition. Throughout his long career, Maurice collected and wrote about art, in particular prints and printmakers. Later in life, Maurice moved to the Pacific Northwest - Vancouver, Washington, and later Monmouth, Oregon, where he served as Visiting Professor at Western Oregon University. In 2016, Maurice established prizes for students at the University of New Hampshire and Western Oregon University. His works are in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), the Anderson Art Center, the Kalamazoo Institute of Art, and the Portland Museum of Art, as well as other institutions.

Creator:
Alfred P. Maurice (1921 - 2019, American)
Creation Year:
1983
Dimensions:
Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
More Editions & Sizes:
32 x 48 inchesPrice: $4,750
Medium:
Canvas,Acrylic
Movement & Style:
American Modern
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1859216796532

Jenny DayP4011, 2017

$1,875

H 24 in W 20 in

P4011

By Jenny Day

Located in New Orleans, LA

Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented space, examining human demand and the effects of environmental d...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Jenny DayDown the Apoxee, 2017

$8,750

H 54 in W 72 in

Down the Apoxee

By Jenny Day

Located in New Orleans, LA

medium: acrylic, enamel, ink, pencil, and collage on canvas Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented spa...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

David A. DreyerIn to Down, 2011

$3,200

$12,800

H 48 in W 48 in

Shift

Located in Fairfield, CT

Iris Kufert-Rivo describes her work... "pattern and repetition of forms is a subject I’ve pursued for decades. This new set of paintings called The Structure Series is inspired by t...

Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Alfred P. MauriceDown1983

About the Item

You May Also Like

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

20th Century Abstract Paintings

2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

More From This Seller

1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings

1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

1950s American Modern Interior Paintings

Alfred P. Maurice
Down
1983