Vintage Figurative Abstract Watercolor and Ink Drawing by Gerard Haggerty 1967

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Vintage Figurative nude female abstract watercolor and Ink drawing by Gerard Haggerty signed lower right and dated 1967 presented matted … Read more Vintage Figurative nude female abstract watercolor and Ink drawing by Gerard Haggerty signed lower right and dated 1967 presented matted and framed. Image size 17" x 22" overall framed size 26" x 32".
Biography;
Gerard Haggerty (1944-2021)
Haggerty’s work has been featured in the XXIIII AMERICAN
DRAWING BIENNIAL, the XXIV AMERICAN DRAWING BIENNIAL, the Smithsonian
Institution’s Contemporary American Drawings IV and Contemporary
American Drawings V (Purchase Prize).

He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Ford Foundation. His one-person exhibitions have included Space Gallery in Los Angeles and Dome Gallery in New York City. His art is included in the collections of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Laguna Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, Michael Douglas, Jack Nicholson, and others.
Gerard Haggerty taught at Brooklyn College, CUNY, UCSB, and the Chautauqua Institution.

Haggerty is a highly literate artist who draws the history of his own time as he sees it. He tempers ordinary sights with personal vision, anxious wit and a general humanistic awareness in order to pull universal truths from particular occasions.

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