Richard Kemble (American, 1932-2007) woodcut of a Nantucket shore. Titled indistinctly at lower left. Signed and numbered 65/110. Artwork in vintage gold wood frame measures 15.25" x 17.25". Artwork and frame in very good condition.
Richard Kemble was born in Erie Pennsylvania, Kemble taught for almost twenty years at the State University of Buffalo and later as a professor at Pratt Institute in New York City. He gave up academics after receiving one of the first printmaker’s fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974. He lived in Key West and Nantucket, exhibiting at the Main Street Gallery.
Kemble used a woodblock technique to create his landscape-inspired prints, often using textures and colors that mimicked natural formations. He used either plywood or Masonite for his prints and was interested in the overlooked elements in nature. He said, "I hope the viewer will see more than 'what is.' I believe that my successful works are imbued with some kind of spirituality which transcends my ability to verbalize." He claims his work has been influenced by the following American painters: Charles Burchfield, Arthur Dove, Milton Avery, Charles Sheeler, and John Henry Twachtman.
Kemble exhibited all over the United States, as well as Europe, and his work is included in the permanent collections of the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, the Allentown Art Museum, the Free Library of Philadephia, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, the Michener Art Museum, and many others.
