Monterey Cypress-C

 

Ambrose McCarthy Patterson

  1877 - 1966 (biography)

c. 1917  

color woodcut 

11 3/8 x 8 3/4" image 

ink signed, lower right 

proof from state C 

titled in pencil in lower left; inscribed C1 in ink in lower right corner 

 

antique-white Japanese hosho 

third state 

artist 

ROEP110 

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This woodcut, done in Monterey, California, was done in 1917 while Patterson spent a month there. He experimented with the color, printing in different combinations - hence the "C" in the title. Ambrose McCarthy Patterson was born June 29, 1877 in Daylesford, Australia. He studied art at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne. He later continued his art studies in Paris at the Academies Colarossi and Julian. He also met fellow Australian, soprano Nellie Melba (1861 - 1931) and, through her friendship, was able to study with John Singer Sargent. He returned to Australia in 1909 moved to Hawaii in 1916 while on his way to New York. In 1917, visited the Monterey Peninsula in California, where he remained for a month. He then settled in Seattle, WA, where he taught painting at the University of Washington until 1947. He married painter and former student Viola Hansen in 1922. During his career, Patterson's work was shown at galleries and museums around the country, including the Chicago Institute, the San Francisco Arts Association, the Guggenheim, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Seattle Fine Arts Society (predecessor to the Seattle Art Museum) held a solo exhibition of his work in 1921, and the Seattle Art Museum held solo shows in 1934, 1947, and 1956, as well as a retrospective in 1961. He died in Seattle in December of 1966.