Vintage Reclining Nude Etching DeWitt Hardy 1 of 50 New/Old Stock #33 Excellent

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Offering a vintage limited drypoint etching of a reclining nude done by DeWitt Hardy (1940-). Pencil signed by the artist on the margin at the bottom right and the edition number 33 (of a total of 50 made) at the bottom left. Plate size is 5.75 X 8.75 in., overall size of the woven rag paper is 10.5 X 14.75 in. Margins are full, untrimmed and the etching is as new, never sold or on display until now. This came from the gallery of the Ogunquit, Maine artist Chris Ritter (1906-1976) and was purchased by us when the estate of his wife was liquidated a few years ago. Etching dates from the early 1970s. No reserve. DEWITT HARDY BORN: St. Louis, Missouri, June 1940 EDUCATION: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY RESIDENCE: South Berwick, Maine POSITIONS HELD: Curator and Associate Director of the Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Ogunquit, ME Instructor, University of Maine at Augusta Instructor, Heartwood College of Art. Kennebunk, ME Curator, 75th Anniversary Show, Ogunquit Art Association, Ogunquit, ME SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2003 McCandles, Epstein, Donovan, Portland, Maine 1999 North Haven Gallery, North Haven, Maine 1996 Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1995 Ogunquit Art Association, Ogunquit, ME 1994 Tom Veilleux Gallery, Farmington, ME 1993 Hollander Gallery, York, ME 1992 Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1989 Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988 Frost Gully Gallery, Portland, ME 1987 Allport Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1986 Robert Schoelkopf, New York, NY 1994 Allport Associates Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1983 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY 1982 Allport Associates Gallery, Larkspur, CA 1981 Robert Schoelkopf, New York, NY 1980 Evansville Museum, Evansville, IA 1973-83 (annually) Cove Bookstore, Ogunquit, ME GROUP SHOWS: 1998 Portland Museum Biennial, Portland, Maine 1997 A Brush With GreatnessnFarnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, Maine 1995 The Ogunquit Tradition: Ogunquit Painting Today, Van Ward Gallery, Boston, MA 1995 The Figure, Point Gallery, York, ME 1995 The Face Of America, Old Forge Museum, Old Forge, NY 1994 Maine Heritage and Tradition, Frost Gully Gallery, Portland, Maine 1994 Self-Portraits, James Goode Collection, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1994 Miniatures, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA Nudes, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993 On the Edge, Maine Painting, 1950-1990, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME 1993 Miniatures, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1991 Perspectives on Realism, Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Two Views of the Nude, Blackthorne Gallery, Portsmouth, NH 1990 Gallery Group, Gallery Henoch, NY 1988 Contemporary Figure Drawings, Robert Schoelkopf, NY 1998 All Maine Biennial University of Southern Maine 1986-7 American Realism, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1984 Portland Museum Drawing Biennial, Portland, ME 1983 Monserrat Drawing Invitational, Monserrat MA American Realists Works on Paper, Robert Schoelkopf, New Yk, NY 1978 ��All Maine Biennial��, Brunswick, ME SELECTED COLLECTIONS: Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, CA Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Museum, British Columbia Beloit College, Beloit, WI Bowdoin College Museum, ME British Museum, London, England Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, OH Casco Northern Bank, Portland, ME Chemical Bank, NYC Cleveland Museum, OH Collection de la Tortue, Paris, France Davidson College, Davidson, NC Dayton Art Institute, OH Drury University, Springfield, MO Dublin Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Hirshhorn Collection, Washington D.C. Indiana State University, Evansville, IN Janss Collection Kalamazoo Institute of Art Kohler Art Center, Sheboygen, WI Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ Michigan State University Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Museum of Art, O... read more

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