Raymer Society Consignment Art Auction
Lot 17:
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Dawson, Mary Joan (Waid) 1960 lithograph, Three Women of Trachis, pencil signed Mary Joan Dawson in lower right, good condition, not examined out of frame, image size: 13 x 12 inches. Mary Joan (Dawson) Waid was born in Kansas and graduated from Wichita University in 1961 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. At Wichita, she met and married Guy Crandell Waid, a baritone studying classical voice in the School of Music. After graduation, they moved to New York City. With their two young sons, Bruce and David, they settled in the late 1960s in SoHo, then an industrial loft district in lower Manhattan where artists were creating a new community. During these early years, Waid’s studio practice focused on domestic observations.In 1973, Waid became the registrar at the Andre Emmerich Gallery, which was well known for exhibiting such artists as Hans Hofmann, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Al Held, and Adolph Gottlieb. While she retained the closely observed light and color of her still life subjects, her paintings began to reflect her immersion into an environment based on abstraction.In 1977, Waid mounted her first solo New York exhibition, at the Fischbach Gallery. In addition to fourteen more solo exhibitions in New York, her work has been shown in galleries and museums across the United States as well as in Germany, Switzerland, and Japan. She was awarded four residencies at the art colonies Yaddo and MacDowell.Waid’s paintings are in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, the Wichita Art Museum, and the National Academy of Design. Her work can be seen at the Atrium Gallery, in St. Louis, Missouri. She lives and works in New York City and Vermont.
Condition: good condition, not examined out of frame
Dimensions: 22.25 x 20.25 x 1 in
Weight: 5.4 lb
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