Graham Peacock Acrylic on Canvas "Scotch Pinicle"

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The Lucy Baker and Kenworth Moffett Collection of New New Group Painters

An acrylic and mixed media painting on canvas titled Scotch Pinicle by New New painter Graham Peacock (American, b. 1945), executed in 1996-97. Carefully executed juxtapositions of colorful acrylic gel are curve outwards atop shaped foam and canvas with applied glass beads. The surface relationship is inspired by natural formations and the all over abstract composition of colors is inspired by Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Larry Poons, Jules Olitski, and Jackson Pollock. Inscribed to the verso. The work is unframed.

Graham Peacock attended Goldsmith’s School of Art at London University from 1962-1966. He continued his post graduate studies in Painting and Sculpture at Leeds College of Art in United Kingdom in 1966 and 1967. Graham attended the Emma Lake Workshop in 1980 and 1981 and the Inaugural Triangle Workshop in Pine Plains, New York in 1982. He was also a Professor of Fine Art and Design at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Member of the New New Painters, a group of artists brought together by the first curator of modern and contemporary art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. Kenworth Moffett in 1978.

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17DCC306-210