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Holly Downing Art

American, b. 1948

Holly Downing is a painter and printmaker, who has been making mezzotint engravings since the 1970s. She studied painting and printmaking at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Royal College of Art, London. She lived in the UK for 6 years, where she received a National Endowment grant to research and make mezzotints. Her paintings and mezzotints have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, Manila, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz and Berkeley. Her work is in many museum collections including the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and the Bibliothèque nationale. Images of her work are included in The Mezzotint: History and Technique, by Carol Wax (Abrams; N.Y. 1990); Holly Downing: Twenty-five Years of Mezzotints, (2001; Penumbrae); Holly Downing: Mezzotints and Paintings and Fresno Art Museum in California (2010).

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Drapery Against Black
By Holly Downing
Located in New Orleans, LA
This black and white mezzotint is in an edition of 30. It is titled, numbered #1/30 and signed in pencil. Holly Downing is a painter and printmaker who has been making mezzotint e...
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1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art

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Mezzotint

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