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Charles HewittUrban Rattle, High Line Pop Art Sculpture Maquette Charlie Hewitt Welded Steel2012
2012
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About the Item
Charles (Charlie) Hewitt
American, b. 1946
Urban Rattle 5, 2012
Steel
Hand signed and titled to underside
Five abstract, painted and patinated figures raised on long stalks from the base at varying angles. A smaller color maquette of the New York Highline public sculpture.
Provenance: Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York.
Dimensions: 26 X 17 X 6 inches
Charlie Hewitt (b.1946) is a nationally known Maine-born painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His work is stylistically rooted in expressionism and surrealism, and is both playful and serious, a quality he shares with artists Alexander Calder, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, and his mentor Philip Guston, who was a major postwar figure of the New York School.
Hewitt grew up in a large working-class French Canadian family in the mill-working communities of Lewiston/Auburn and Brunswick, Maine.
Hewitt’s work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and in Maine at the Portland Museum of Art, the Farnsworth Museum of Art, and in the art museums at Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby colleges.
Charles Hewitt maintains studios in Portland, Maine, and New York City, where his work has been exhibited continuously since 1973. Variations from his sculpture series “Urban Rattle” are installed on the High Line in Chelsea, New York (the only permanent installation on the High Line), and in the Maine cities of Lewiston and Portland. Hewitt recently unveiled his “Hopeful” sign at Speedwell Projects in Portland, Maine. Charlie Hewitt is known for his energetic abstract paintings, woodcuts, and sculptures that are informed by the millworker community he experienced growing up in the Lewiston–Auburn and Brunswick areas of Maine. In works that feature irregular geometric shapes and a bold, contrasting color palette, Hewitt reflects the culture’s dynamism and core values. Much of Hewitt’s work also deals with themes of memory, religion, and narrative, such as his “Veils” series, which he produced after 9/11. Dark yet luminous, the works incorporate multiple transparent layers of imagery that convey an aesthetic of shared memory.
It was printmaking that brought Hewitt back to Maine in the 1980s when he worked at Vinalhaven Press, a print shop and studio on the island east of Rockland. It’s also where he got to know Pop Art master Robert Indiana, who already had crossed over from art to pop culture with his one-word sculpture “Love.” Hewitt lives in Yarmouth, Maine, with his wife and their two children.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1974: NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, CAPS GRANT
1997: NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, DRAWINGS, PRINTS
1998: NEW YORK STATE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, PAINTING
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK CITY
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK CITY
THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D.C.
MIT, LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
THE HERBERT F. JOHNSON MUSEUM, ITHACA, NEW YORK
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, NEW YORK CITY
THE PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART, PORTLAND, MAINE
THE COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, LEWISTON, MAINE
COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, WATERVILLE, MAINE
BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, BRUNSWICK, MAINE
THE FOGG MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ADDISON GALLERY, ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS
THE FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM, ROCKLAND, MAINE
HOOD MUSEUM, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, NEW YORK CITY
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