This
beautiful archival inkjet print is offered through the Davistown Museum
gallery by artist Alan Magee. Measures 30" x 24". Frame and matting not included.
Alan Magee, born in 1947 in Newtown,
Pennsylvania, attended art school in Philadelphia and, in 1969, began working as an editorial
and book illustrator in New York.
Among his regular clients were Time Magazine, Playboy, Atlantic,
New York Magazine, The New York Times, Bantam,
Avon, Ballantine and Pocket Books. His
illustrations received numerous awards from the Society of Illustrators,
Communication Arts Magazine and the Art Director's Clubs of Los Angeles, Chicago and New
York. In the late 1970s, Magee began to
concentrate exclusively on his personal paintings and, in 1980, had his first
solo exhibition at Staempfli Gallery in NYC. Since that time, he has had
annual one-man shows throughout the United States
and Europe. A ten-year retrospective, Alan
Magee 1981-1991, traveled to four US museums. Currently a thirty-year
retrospective is traveling throughout the US.
A book of Magee's paintings, Stones and Other
Works, was published by Harry N. Abrams in 1986 and the book, Alan Magee
1981-1991, was published in 1991 by the Farnsworth Art Museum.
A 224-page monograph Alan Magee, Paintings, Sculpture, Graphics was published
in 2003 by Forum Gallery. He received The American Book Award in 1982 and has
received awards from the American Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters and the National Academy of Design. Several half-hour television
documentaries have been made about his work including the WCBB production, Alan
Magee, Visions of Darkness and Light. Magee has been interviewed on radio for
Voice of America, Monito (Christian Science Monitor) Radio in NYC, WHYY in Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio in San Francisco.
Magee's works can be seen in many public
collections including The Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco, The Portland Museum of Art, the Farnsworth
Art Museum, the Arkansas
Art Center,
the Arizona State
University Art
Museum and the Columbus (Ohio) Museum
of Art. His work is
included in the private collections of Mobil Oil, the Atlantic Richfield Co.,
Lucasfilm, Inc., Cargill Corporation, Continental Grain, the Bank of Japan, the
Union Trust Bank, The Janss Collection, and the collections of Billy Wilder,
Chermayeff & Geissmar, Johnny Carson, Mike Nichols and Diane Sawyer,
Nicholas Cage, Morley Safer, and Richard & Jalane Davidson, among others.
Magee is represented by Forum Gallery in New York
and Los Angeles.