Pen and ink on paperboard, signed and dated "D. Stuart '67" at lower right, presented in custom shadowbox frame.

Sheet Size 31.75 x 31.75 in.; DOA 36 1/8 x 36 1/8 in.

Collection of a Raleigh Gentleman

Duncan Stuart's career as an artist is impressive and varied. He was born in Iowa, moved to various states for school and teaching positions, and he served as a cartographer in World War II. Stuart later moved to Raleigh, NC, where he spent the majority of his life and co-founded the School of Design at NC State University. Stuart's work has since been exhibited at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Whitney Museum, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; and others.

Stuart's interest in geometry and structure began in the 1950s along with his work with renowned iconoclast Buckminster Fuller, who taught for a period at Black Mountain College in western North Carolina, and at NCSU. Stuart and his NCSU students contributed technical drawings for various versions of one of Fuller's most famous creations, the Geodesic Dome. This particular drawing shows Stuart's transference of that technical work into fine art, coinciding with the Op-Art Movement of the mid 1960s. This drawing is from a series of 12 commissioned and formerly owned by Duke University, another of which is now in the study collection of the Gregg Museum of Art at NCSU. A related drawing of a similar size, from the period of work on the Geodesic Dome, was acquired in 2016 by Special Collections of the Design Library at NCSU.

Professionally conserved; some toning, cockling, and several periphery spots; not examined out of frame.

$1,000 - 1,500