b/w mezzotint
2001
11 3/4 x 8 3/4
edition: 100
Retif and Salzer 77
signed in pencil
Frederick Mershimer received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, where he majored in painting and drawing. After moving to New York in 1983, he began to study printmaking at The New School, Pratt Graphics Center (1984 – 1987) and Manhattan Graphics Center (1988 – 1992). Mershimer was initially drawn to the slow, direct and laborious mezzotint process, because it echoed his approach to drawing. In 2007, Stone and Press published a catalogue raisonné of his work, titled Frederick Mershimer Mezzotints 1984 – 2006. In 2007, he received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts, followed by a 2009 Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.
COLLECTIONS
- The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
- The British Museum, London
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
- The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana
- The Flint Institute of Art Flint, Michigan
- Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Georgetown University Lauinger Library, Washington, D.C.
- Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
- Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Molloy College Art Gallery, Rockville Centre, New York
- Museum of the City of New York, New York, New York
- The National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
- New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
- The New York Public Library, New York, New York
- Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey
- Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, Indiana
- Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
- RISD Museum/ Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
- Spencer Museum of Art/The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
- Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
- Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
- The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
- Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
