Medium: Color etching Dimensions: 5 x 7 inches (image) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1958 Date finished: 2011 Edition: 5/45
Recommended by Paige(Collections Manager): I am often drawn to a strong title, and the title “Man with a Gun” brings out the best in the piece. The image is loaded before we even begin to interpret Fitzpatrick’s puzzling iconography. There is a peculiar chaos and anxiety that we experience as interpreters of the work, trying to analyze the familiar yet incomplete symbols.
Medium: Etching, aquatint Dimensions: 3 x 2 inches (image) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1958 Date finished: 1997 Edition: 15/40
Recommended by Paige (Collections Manager):
"I find 'Elston Ave.' so interesting because it's a compression of a place into one image. To describe the experience of an entire city street is impossible, but here we see a version of Elston Avenue through the artist's eyes. His priorities, emphasis, symbols, and layers are borderline nonsensical, but full of texture and oddities that speak to his personal interpretation. I would love to take a walk down the avenue of Fitzpatrick's drawings."
Medium: Etching Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (image) Artist details: American, 1950 Date finished: 2007 Edition: of 30
Recommended by Paige (Collections Manager):
"Mary Farrell's etchings have an amazing precision and texture that make her imagery so visceral. In Identity, Farrell uses harsh contrast to cover the figure's shoulders and neck in highlights but shroud their face in shadows. I find so much mystery in the figure - the lack of context encourages anonymity but the face seems so specific, the pose is generic but hostile or at least uninviting, a cold but honest portrait. The title further mystifies me as I wonder how well I know this person from Farrell's image, or what really makes up an identity."
