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Attributed to
Peirce, Gerry (American)
1900 - 1969
Description: Western Desert, oil on canvas, 14 3/4"
x 29 3/4", unframed. The
name Peirce
is written in pencil, verso.
Condition: Very good. Minor surface abrasions.
Biography: Gerry Peirce was born in 1900 in Jamestown,
New York, and graduated from
the Cleveland,
Ohio School of Art and then studied
at the
Art Students League in New York.
He spent
his last 30 years in Tucson,
AZ, lured by
the desert after wintering there
earlier.
The New York native studied at
Cleveland's
School of Fine Arts and New York's
Art Student
League. He did his first etchings
in Nova
Scotia, Canada, then spent a
dozen years
working in Arizona and New Mexico.
In 1948,
Mr. Peirce turned to watercolor,
and opened
the School of Watercolor Art
in Tucson. The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Boston Museum
of Fine Art, the Library of Congress
and
the Univerity of Arizona Art
Museum are among
those that own Gerry Peirce's
works. St.
Andrews University College in
London awarded
him an honorary doctor of philosophy
degree
in art for the quality of his
paintings and
the inspirational value of his
writing. A
painter, teacher, etcher, illustrator,
and
author, he was a multi-talented
man who won
numerous prizes for watercolor
and etching
and also illustrated and wrote
children's
books including "Plants
of Sun and Sand.
From the mid-1930s, he directed
the Gerry
Peirce Watercolor School in Tucson,
Arizona.
He was a member of the Society
of American
Etchers, Chicago Society of Etchers,
and
California Print Makers. Mr.
Peirce died
in 1969." [From Askart.com]
$ 350.00
inclusive of S/H/I*
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information, please e-mail.
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shipment outside the continental
United States.
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