Medium: Color etching Dimensions: 5 x 7 inches (image) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1958 Date finished: 2011 Edition: 5/45
Recommended by Paige(Collections Manager): I am often drawn to a strong title, and the title “Man with a Gun” brings out the best in the piece. The image is loaded before we even begin to interpret Fitzpatrick’s puzzling iconography. There is a peculiar chaos and anxiety that we experience as interpreters of the work, trying to analyze the familiar yet incomplete symbols.
Medium: Etching, aquatint Dimensions: 3 x 2 inches (image) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1958 Date finished: 1997 Edition: 15/40
Recommended by Paige (Collections Manager):
"I find 'Elston Ave.' so interesting because it's a compression of a place into one image. To describe the experience of an entire city street is impossible, but here we see a version of Elston Avenue through the artist's eyes. His priorities, emphasis, symbols, and layers are borderline nonsensical, but full of texture and oddities that speak to his personal interpretation. I would love to take a walk down the avenue of Fitzpatrick's drawings."
Medium: Mezzotint, drypoint Dimensions: 12 x 17 3/4 inches (image) Artist details: American, 1950 Date finished: 2011 Edition: of 26
Recommended by Rebecca (Gallery Manager): "Mary Farrell has created a strong unapologetic, outwardly looking, "in your face" portrait using her mezzotint rocker in a creative and expressive manner. The multiple teeth digging into the plate, forming parallel patterns, as opposed to the rocker's usual technique of covering the whole plate with a velvety looking surface. She has contrasted that deep luxurious surface at the bottom of the image with the stark face peering out."
