DeLoss McGraw, Leaving Home (97-301), 1997

DeLoss McGraw

Leaving Home (97-301), 1997

Five color lithograph on tan Rives BFK paper with deckled edges

Signed and numbered 3/75 on the front

17 × 24 3/25 inches

Unframed

Five color lithograph on tan Rives BFK paper with deckled edges
Pencil signed and numbered 3/75
Published by Tamarind Institute, Collaborating Printer(s): Ross Zirkle
In 2024, another example of this print was featured in the exhibition "Decades: The 1990s", the Donald B. Anderson Gallery, Roswell Museum, New Mexico

Provenance
Tamarind Institute

DELOSS MCGRAW BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY:
Painter and poet Deloss McGraw has been a pioneer in the art and poetry collaborative movement since the 1980s. McGraw migrated to California from Oklahoma in order to attend Long Beach State University and the Otis Art Institute. In addition, he studied at Michigan’s Cranbrook Academy of Art, from which he graduated in 1973 with an MFA.

In 1976, McGraw discovered the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass. McGraw sent Snodgrass a series of mixed media paintings that incorporated the poet’s text into their compositions. Snodgrass, in turn, responded with new poems inspired by these images, and thus occurred a melding of media and ideas between the aritsts.

Since then, McGraw has developed a pictorial style in which recognizable forms are morphed by his imagination into objects of poetic fancy. His figuration has been greatly inspired by so-called ‘outsider art,’ most notably by the work of American folk artists that McGraw has collected since his childhood. It is from these that the artist’s paintings have derived their rough-hewn quality.

Deloss McGraw’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. His pieces have received critical acclaim in over 80 solo exhibitions, and are collected by such eminent institutions as: Oxford, Syracuse, Temple and Cornell Universities, as well as by the Whitney Museum of American Art Library Collection, The Library of Congress, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Two of McGraw’s works belong to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator’s Society Book of the Year Award for 2002.