Harry McCormick Reading Signed Contemporary Realism Etching on Paper AP Framed

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A contemporary aquatint etching on paper titled “Reading” by American artist Harry McCormick. Hand signed in pencil bottom right, titled … more A contemporary aquatint etching on paper titled “Reading” by American artist Harry McCormick. Hand signed in pencil bottom right, titled mid-bottom, and annotated AP on the bottom left. Circa 1980s. The composition depicts a solitary female figure wearing a beret and reading a book in a room. She is illuminated by the sun through a window – a lovely evocation of light and shadow. McCormick takes inspiration from the American Realist painters at the turn of the 20th century such as Edward Hopper, John Sloan, and George Bellows. From a private collection in Metro Detroit. Dimensions: 28.5”h x 24”w x 1.25”d (framed). In very good vintage condition.

Harry McCormick (1942- ) is a contemporary American painter noted for his closely observed renderings of shadow, light, and reflections in interior spaces. His paintings often capture one or two solitary individuals in moments of introspection. His work can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama; the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida; the Newark Museum in New Jersey; the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; the Delaware Museum of Art in Wilmington, and the Vatican Collection in Rome, Italy, among others. less