The first titled WILD, ink and oil stick word rubbings on paper, retaining a Tyndall Galleries of Chapel Hill label on the verso (DOA 28.25 x 39.75 in.); the second titled Real World Feel Dull From, ink and oil stick word rubbings on paper (DOA 39.75 x 28.25 in.); each signed and dated 1992 at lower right, each presented under glass in contemporary metal frames.

By descent through the artist's family . Vernon Pratt was an associate professor of art at Duke University. A graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, Pratt enrolled at Duke in 1958 but finished his undergraduate and master's degrees at the San Francisco Art Institute. He returned to Duke in 1964 as a professor, a position he held until his untimely death in 2000.

Pratt may be best known for creating the massive, publicly funded Education Wall across from the Legislative Office Building in Raleigh. The Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NCSU mounted an exhibition of his work, Permutations, Progressions + Possibilities = The Art of Vernon Pratt, last fall at the Betty Ray McCain Art Gallery, Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh. His work is also in the permanent collection of the NC Museum of Art.

Both with cockling and some transfer to glass.

$300 - 600