Artist: Richard Shaffer. ( Californian b. 1947 )
Title: Andenken Space Dwelling
Type: aquatint etching
Signed : yes, in pencil
Published: by L.A. louvre
Condition: very nice aside from discoloration speckles/foxing
Dimension: Sheet 29 3/4 x 35 3/4". Images app 17 3/4 x 21 1/2"
Richard Shaffer is an American visual artist who was born in 1947. He has enjoyed extensive museum and gallery exhibitions including at The New Mexico Museum of Art. He has had works such as "Affairs of The Heart" at The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and "concentrations" at The Dallas Museum of Art.
He received a BFA in Painting from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford. He was a Roswell Museum Artists in residence , received the Fulbright Grant , Florence, Italy. He received the Rockefeller Grant. Shaffer was also asst professor of drawing and painting for the University of Texas.
He has received dozens of honors and awards and is in many notable publications.
What a beautiful etching. We have several example of his work on line.
In 1958 after leaving the Royal College, Morley moved to NYC where he saw exhibitions of the work of Jackson Pollock and Balthus, both of whose treatment of their paintings surfaces influenced him greatly. Cezanne also was a deep influence on his own work. When Morley moved to NY he also met Barnett Newman and became influenced by him. He painted a number of works at this time made up of only horizontal black and white bands.
He also met Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and, influenced in part by them, changed to a photorealistic style (Morley prefers the phrase super realist). He often uses a grid to transfer photographic images from a variety of sources to canvas as accurately as possible and became one of the most noted photo realists.
In the 1970's, Morley's work began to be more expressionist, and he began to incorporate collage into his work.
He is represented by galleries in New York and Brussels, collected and shown world wide.

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