Patrick Archer, Pop Art Modernist Collage Painting GENESIS Patrick Archer, 2001

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PATRICK ARCHER (American b. 1926) "Genesis VI" Collage on board. Sight: 13 x 11 inches, framed: 23 .5 x 21.5 … Read more PATRICK ARCHER (American b. 1926) "Genesis VI" Collage on board. Sight: 13 x 11 inches, framed: 23 .5 x 21.5 inches. Signed and dated at lower right, signed titled and numbered on verso.

Palm Beach Florida artist Patrick Archer (b. 1926). Archer studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts (MFA) Archer has exhibited widely including recent exhibitions at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, the Boca Raton Museum, and the Merrill Lynch Gallery in New York. Archer's work is in the collections of the Albright Knox Gallery (a work similar to the one offered here), Vero Beach Museum of Art, the Silvermine Guild, and the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach.
Taught Painting, Drawing, Design, Architecture, History & Appreciation, and introduced a concentrated program in Color and Theory (under the advisory-guidance of Faber Birren.) Worked directly with Reuben Hale, Jim Houser, Pat Slatery, Gene Arant, Richard Frank, Paul Aho, Tom McCartney, and Miles Laventhall.

His works are included in the following public collections:
- The Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
- The Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton, FL
- The Norton Museum, W.Palm Beach, FL
- The Vero Beach Museum, Vero Beach, FL
- The Stamford Museum, Stamford, CN
- The Silvermine Guild, Silvermine, CN
- The Waterloo Museum, Waterloo, IA
- The Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL

As well as in these private collections:
- Beth Rudin DeWoody, NYC, NY
- Princess Francesca Chigi, Rome, Italy
- Algur Meadows, Dallas, TX
- Eritt Cord, Reno, NV
- William Marsteller, NYC, NY
- John Mack Carter, NYC, NY
- Irving Luntz (ADAA), Palm Beach, FL
- William Constable, Boston, MA
- E.F. Hutton, NYC, NY
- Ogden Phipps, Palm Beach, FL
- Alfonso Fanjul, Palm Beach, FL

Recent Awards:
- 2002- Philip Hulitar Award, Society of 4-Arts, Palm Beach, FL (A national Contemporary Painting competition)
Recent Exhibitions:
- 2002- Merrill Lynch Gallery, NYC, NY
- 2001- Cagne-sur-Mer Museum, Cagne-sur-Mer, France
- 2001- Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton, FL
- 2001- Vero Beach Museum, Vero Beach, FL

He likens the production of a collage to a symphony orchestra conductor, who takes a wide variety of individual, professional musicians and "blends" them into a uniquely new expression. These collages utilize disparate elements taken from magazines, catalogs, books, brochures, old billboard scrapings, and whatever other sources (even discarded paintings) and reconstitutes them into original works.

William Zimmer, a contributing critic for The New York Times, said of his work, "Archer has a pile of advertising posters and other detritus in his backyard which he allows to grow moldy, and this becomes organic. When he uses material treated this way in a work it has a certain authority because it comes out of the earth. He likens his predilection for venerable-looking components to Leonardo's delight in 'little adventures,' such as stained walls. Like Da Vinci, Archer rejects little, for his working attitude means the eventual subordination of intellectual choices to the surprise of randomness." See less