Women Climbing Stairs

 Screenprint on paper

25 inches high x 33 inches wide

numbered in pencil, 81/100, lower left corner

signed in pencil, lower right corner

 Robert Gordy is considered a pioneering Southern artist of the 20th century, known primarily as a printmaker, but also renowned for his works on canvas and for extremely clean, detailed works on paper in marker and ink. Born in Louisiana in 1933, Gordy received his BFA and MFA from Louisiana State University, and studied with Hans Hofmann in the 1950’s. The apparent calm of his paintings and drawings evidences a mastery of the dynamics of shape in varied balance. His clean-edged and stylized forms, melodic patterns, and flawless color harmonies are characteristic of his exquisite compositional patterning.