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Guy MaccoyGuy Maccoy "City Beyond the Bluffs" Cityscape Oil on Board MCM1950 - 1975
1950 - 1975
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"City Beyond the Bluffs" is a colorful dynamic example of Maccoy's Mid-20th century paintings. Considered Mid-Century Modern it also has Cubist style in the bluffs. Unframed the piece measures 25 x 42.
Guy Crittington McKay was born to Clifford McKay and Clara Angeline Young who was the granddaughter of Brigham Young. Clifford McKay later changed the family name to McCoy. Later on Guy changed his name to Maccoy.
Guy Maccoy was educated at The Art Students League in New York. From the 19th century to the present, the League has counted among its attendees and instructors hundreds of many historically important artists, and contributed to numerous influential schools and movements in the art world. The school's list of notable alumni includes: Ai Weiwei, Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, Thomas Hart Benton, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Margaret Covey Chisholm, Frederick Stuart Church, Andrew Dasburg, Louis Finkelstein, Helen Frankenthaler, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Clement Greenberg, Bessie Pease Gutmann, , Marsden Hartley, Eva Hesse, Al Hirschfeld, Winslow Homer, Thomas Hoving, Donald Judd, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Peter Max, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Isamu Noguchi, Georgia O'Keeffe, Betty Parsons, Jackson Pollock, Fairfield Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, Leonard Rosenfeld, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Maurice Sendak, Ben Shahn, Tony Smith, Louise Hammond Willis Snead, Otto Stark, William Starkweather, Frank Stella, Joseph Stella, Clyfford Still, Soichi Sunami, and Cy Twombly.
Maccoy is an American artist, muralist, teacher and the father of fine art Serigraphy, so named in honor of his process of hand silkscreening. He was born in Rock Creek, Kansas. He showed an early natural aptitude for art and had guiding forces at home. After high school he attended night school at the Kansas City Art Institute. During summers he attended the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs. 1929 Guy won a Tifanny Art Foundation scholarship in New York and studied at The Art Students League alongside Jackson Pollack, Rico Lebrun, Boardman Robinson, Thomas Hart Benton, Jan Matulka, Vaclav Vytlacil and Arthur Young.
In 1933 he started working within the WPA creating murals. The desire to more than one original of posters Guy developed the printing process utilizing silk screen and experimenting with various mediums. This was the what would become the standard for reproducing original artwork and thus he became known as the “Father of Serigraph.”
Guy began teaching Lithography at the newly formed Jepson Art Institute in Los Angeles alongside Geno Pettit, Rico Lebrun, William Moore, Francis de Erdely, Bill Price and Howard Warshaw. He worked in this medium for the remainder of his life producing well over 100 original paintings and over eighty limited editions of his own works. Keeping in mind that all these seripraphs were hand stenciled on this screens using a method of color separation controlled one hundred percent by the mind’s eye and knowledge of the Guy Maccoy process. After each print had been hand registered and printed it was hand hung up to dry, after all sheets in the edition had been run the screen was washed out, cleaned, dried and redied for the process to begin all over . The number of color runs to produce many of these fine works of art averaged in the fifty to eighty plus color runs with many prints having over one hundred color runs. This effect of color layering and intimate knowledge of color is what made Guy’s work so beautiful, unique, collectable and valuable.
- Creator:Guy Maccoy (1904 - 1981)
- Creation Year:1950 - 1975
- Dimensions:Height: 34.5 in (87.63 cm)Width: 51.5 in (130.81 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Detroit, MI
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU128615464892
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