Print of the Day!! Thurs, Nov 16, 2023 is by Louie Ewing (1908-1983). "November"; color serigraph, ca 1950, 86/120.
Print of the Day!! Thursday, November 16, 2023 New Mexico Printmaker Louie Ewing (1908-1983).
"November" is a screenprint, a color silkscreen, done around 1950 by New Mexico printmaker Louie Ewing (19084-1983). The image measures 7-5/8 x 14-7/8 inches. This impression is pencil signed and editioned "86/120" by the artist in the lower margin and is titled using screenprinting in the margin. It was printed by the artist on an ivory wove paper. The gallery inventory number for this work is 24645.
This color screenprint by New Mexico printmaker Louie Ewing (1908-1993) is available from the gallery for purchase. Contact the gallery with any condition or other questions. ?
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Louie Ewing depicts a November afternoon in the American Southwest, with distant mountains draped in late autumn snow, aspen trees in the foreground clinging to the last golden vestiges of summer on delicate branches. Ewing was a champion of the Southwest's landscapes, depicting them in serigraphs/silkscreens, paintings, and more, creating images that would reflect the colors of each season, especially in New Mexico, with equal aplomb.
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By the time he created this serigraph, he had been teaching art at the Santa Fe Indian School for some time, instructing children of the Tewa and Dine/Navajo tribes the printmaking technique. Several of the students of the Santa Fe Indian School would go on to form the Tewa Enterprises print shop in Santa Fe, including such noted artists as Woody Crumbo, Gerald Nailor, and Harrison Begay. Louie Ewing was born in Pocatello, Idaho, on December 22, 1908. In 1933 he moved to California and studied art in a junior college under Stanley Breneiser, whom he followed to Santa Fe in 1935. There they both taught at the newly organized Eidolon Art School, which unfortunately closed after one year. Ewing married Marrie Breneiser, his teacher's daughter, in 1935, and the couple decided to stay on in Santa Fe.
Ewing joined the WPA's Federal Art Project working under Russell Vernon Hunter. In the late 1930s the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Federal Art Project sent Russell a group of materials on the process of silk screening with encouragement to spread the technique in the Southwest. Russell selected Louie Ewing as the person to master the technique and show it to others. Ewing headed the WPA printmaking workshop in Santa Fe. In short order, Ewing had set up a silk screening shop and was producing prints. Silk screening became a major artistic expression in the Southwest. Louie Ewing is viewed by some to be one of the first artists in the United States to "work creatively with serigraphy" on posters and book illustrations. He also did many landscape paintings of New Mexico.
In 1938, Federal Arts Project of New Mexico funded a Portfolio of Spanish Colonial Design in New Mexico; and with this, he began a long series of book publications in which his original silk screens were tipped into the books. Although Ewing was not the first produce silk screens for books, he was the first in the Southwest and it was an original innovation for him. In 1939, Kenneth Chapman, curator of the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, collaborated with Russell Vernon Hunter in a WPA project for in which Ewing made silkscreen prints from his original paintings of fifteen Navajo blankets. The fifteen silk screens were each printed 200 times and the resulting portfolios were distributed to libraries, universities and museums. Ewing continued to produce serigraphs throughout his life. His body of work is one of the monuments to New Mexico life in the 1930s-1970s. He died in Santa Fe on December 1, 1983.
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