Description: Louie Ewing was born in Pocatello, Idaho. In 1933 he moved to California and studied art in a junior college. He followed his art professor, Stanley Breneiser, to Santa Fe in 1935. He 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. 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. Based on these publications, 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. In the late 1940s Ewing taught at the Indian School in Santa Fe and trained a number of Native Americans in the silk screen technique. Ewing did not limit his artistic output to serigraphy. He also did many landscape paintings of New Mexico, working in nearly all media - watercolor, gouache, oil, stained glass, tile, sculpture. Ewing continued to produce serigraphs throughout his life. He died in Santa Fe in 1983.
Price: 550 USD
Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Features: Matted, Signed
Width (Inches): 14
Production Technique: Serigraph
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Material: Serigraph & Silkscreen
Height (Inches): 11
Print Surface: Paper
Date of Creation: 1970-1989
Artist: Louie Ewing
Original/Licensed Reprint: Limited Edition Print
Style: Americana
Color: Multi-Color
Type: Print