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Lot 2247
Vernon Pratt (NC, 1941-2000), PRETTY
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Mixed media on canvas, 1997, signed and dated lower right, gallery wrapped canvas.

40 x 48 in.

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 has mounted two exhibitions of his work, All The Possibilities of Filling in Sixteenths (65,536) in 2018 and Permutations, Progressions + Possibilities = The Art of Vernon Pratt in 2016. His work is also in the permanent collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Some mildew to verso of canvas, not affecting surface.