24-190 Richard Kemble 1978 Woodcut 40 x 40

Offered here is a limited edition woodcut on rice paper marked “AP II” entitled “Primordium II” signed “Kemble 78.” It measures 40 x 40 inches in its original hardwood frame. It is one of his largest pieces.

Richard Kemble (American, 1932-2007) taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo and danced with the Buffalo Ballet. He later taught at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. After nearly 20 years, he gave up academics after having received one of the first printmaker’s fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974, and devoted his career full-time to creating art.

His artwork has been included in well over 200 exhibitions worldwide and he is represented in the public collections of more than 100 museums and corporations. A few of these museums include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Newark Museum, The New Jersey State Museum, and The Smithsonian Institution, The Key West Museum of Art and History and the Nantucket Historical Association.

He was a partner in Forager House, an art and antiques shop on Nantucket and Key West. He was a close friend of my family, who also had a shop on Nantucket. There is a hardcover “Richard Kemble: A Retrospective” published in 2013 by George Korn & Thomas Livingston.