Richard Mayhew
"Santa Fe Trail, 1999"
 
 
This Artwork is:
NEW CUSTOM FRAMED in bronze with brown wood frame
Matted in white
Framed Size: 16" wide x 18" high
Image Size: 9" x 11"
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Framed in the USA
THE FRAMING ALONE IS WORTH OVER $150
Richard Mayhew;
Born April 3, 1924 (age 100), Amityville, New York. Painter. His abstract landscapes are informed by his experiences as an African American/Native American and his interest in the performing arts. He was a member of Spiral, a black painters' group in the 1960s in New York that included Romare Bearden, Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff as members. Mayhew studied initially at the Art Students League and with Edwin Dickinson and Reuben Tam at the Brooklyn Museum School. He visited Paris in 1961, having just spent two years in Florence on a John Hay Whitney Fellowship, and lived for a time in Holland before returning to the U.S. Primarily a landscape painter, Mayhew has also organized and participated in multimedia performances and directed community outreach arts programs. In the 1960s Mayhew painted landscapes in close tonal harmonies and gradually diffused recognizable forms until they disappeared entirely in his paintings of the 1970s. Since 1975, however, he has driven across the U.S. five times to observe the mood and space of the American landscape, and now, working with an intensified palette, Mayhew recreates an exuberant sense of vast space within the canvas.