Robert Vickrey Egg Tempera Painting "Lacy Alone" With Book

Item Details

Robert Vickrey (American, 1926-2011)
Lacy Alone
Egg tempera on board
Signed to the lower left
Sloans & Kenyon label to the verso
Lot includes a book about the artist’s painting technique

American artist Robert Vickrey was born in 1926. Vickrey graduated with a B.A. from Yale in 1947 and relocated to New York. There he joined the Art Students League and studied with artists Kenneth Hayes Miller and Reginald Marsh. Vickrey then returned to Yale to complete a Fine Arts degree, and learned the medium of egg tempera from Lewis E. York. Many artists sway away from egg tempera because the quick drying time does not allow for blending or spontaneity. However, Vickrey found egg tempera to be a versatile medium that results in a visual effect most fitting for the genre of magic realism. Vickrey’s technique of egg tempera emulsion uses the contents of the yolk mixed with a small amount of water and pigment powder. Then, using other tools for scraping, sponging, stippling and sandpapering, Vickrey made art that aligns him with other tempera artists such as Andrew Wyeth and Paul Cadmus. Vickrey expanded his artistic catalog to experimental films and illustration, including designing Time magazine covers from 1942 to 1966. Though it was always egg tempera that he found the most lending to his ideas. Vickrey’s art is held in the permanent collections of multiple institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. A 2009 retrospective of his career was held at the Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery before his passing in 2011.

Condition

- wear, marks, scratches, and chipping to frame; stains to liner; light chipping to paint.

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Item #

ITMGE21904