Lot 30: Richard Huntington Abstract Etching

Richard Huntington (b. 1936) American painter, printmaker, and writer, is Critic Emeritus at The Buffalo News and has written for High Performance magazine, ARTnews, and Art New England. Most recently, he was a catalog essayist for the exhibition Artpark: 1974?_?__????1984 at UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts; Forty: The Sabres and the NHL at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and Duayne Hatchett, Form, Pattern, and Invention, the catalogue for a retrospective exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo (2009). In 2007, Huntington won the Associated Press First Award for Criticism and earlier, among a number of residencies, served as visiting critic at the Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington, D.C. From 1982 to 1985, he was Visual Arts Director at Artpark in Lewiston, New York. He has shown his art nationally and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at the Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, New York (2008-2009); the Albright-Knox Collectors Gallery, Buffalo (2008); and the JR Konsthallen, Link???_????ping, Sweden (2007). In 2010, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery included his work in the international biennial Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents. In 2009, The Carey Berkus Studio in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, included his work in a group show representing Mexican and American artists. Huntington holds a BFA from Syracuse University and a Master of Art and Humanities from the University at Buffalo. He divides his time between Buffalo and the town of San Miguel de Allende in central Mexico. Original aquatint etching, pencil signed and dated 1977, image approx. 14 x 10-3/4" plus margins.?_?__???? Mounting traces at outer top edge well away from image. VG. This was made while Huntington was visiting artist-in-residence at the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY.

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