Print of the Day!! Sat, Aug 3, 2024 is by Donald A. Mackay (1914-2005): "Helianthus;" color lithograph, ca 1978, 45/80.
Print of the Day!! Saturday, August 3, 2024. is by printmaker Donald A. Mackay (1914-2005). ?
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"Helianthus" is a color lithograph, done around 1978. The image measures 16-5/16 x 12-11/16 inches. This impression is pencil signed, titled, and editioned 45/80 by the artist in the margin beneath the image. It was printed by the artist and on a sheet of heavy antique-white wove paper that measures 22-7/8 x 17-1/4 inches.? The gallery inventory number for this work is 20840. This work had been purchased by the Reader's Digest Association, Inc from Associated American Artists in New York on February 8, 1979. It was inventoried at RDA as number 14663. This color lithograph by Donald Alexander Mackay is available from the gallery for purchase.?
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The ghostly face of a sunflower is rendered in delicate, goldenrod-hued lines against a velvety black background to show the arterial networks of its veins and the honeycomb pattern produced by its seeds, as well as its wilting ligules. The power of Donald A. Mackay's lithograph lies in the deliberate juxtaposition of the subject with its haunting execution: the flower named for its resemblance to our universe's largest star is rendered in such a way that it appears solarized, as if the artist's vision has been exposed to its namesake.
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Known especially for his architectural renderings, Mackay had a steady hand and an eye for nearly imperceptible detail. Whether an image of a city, a landscape, or a single object, he finds subtleties and patterns that bolster the life of the composition. Donald Alexander Mackay was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on August 13, 1914.??He grew up in Boston and attended the Massachusetts College of Art.?Upon graduation he was hired as a designer in the plastics division of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company until the onset of the Depression led to his termination, and he took freelance work where he could find it.? During World War II Mackay served in the army in the European theater, and following his tour of duty he spent a year studying at the American Academy in Biarritz, France.
He settled in New York and found employment at an artist's studio in Greenwich Village, where he met and married fellow artist Stella DaCosta. Together, they traveled to Mexico to study graphic arts with Alfredo Zalce at the University of Morelia. Mackay later studied lithography and etching at the Pratt Institute Center for Contemporary Printmaking. He worked as a freelance commercial artist during the 1950s.?? His fascination with an excavation of a bank site on Wall Street ultimately resulted in his book,?The Building of Manhattan, published by Harper & Row in 1987.??Mackay also illustrated children's books, and produced drawings related to the White House, the Metropolitan Opera, and space flights. Donald Alexander Mackay died in Frederick, Maryland on December 17, 2005. ?
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