John Beerman (NC, b. 1958), Untitled (Landscape at Sunset)

Mixed-media intaglio print with etching and ink on paper, pencil signed and marked as printer's proof lower margin, sheet bears blindstamp at lower right, with full margins, float mounted and presented in gilt frame.

Sheet size 13 1/8 x 17 in.; Frame dimensions 29 x 33 in.

Private Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1958, John Beerman studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and earned his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. A 2008 New York Times article describes Beerman as a modern transcendentalist painter and quotes the artist as seeing himself "in the tradition of the Luminist offshoots of the Hudson River School" (Susan Dominus, "Linked to the Hudson, by Love, Art and History," New York Times, 2008). Beerman goes on to explain that he particularly resonates with the Hudson River School artists' stillness, their subtle and non-painterly brushwork, their broad skies, and the contemplative nature of their paintings.

After living in New York for more than twenty-six years and acquiring a strong following there, Beerman returned to the South and now resides and practices in Durham, North Carolina. Beerman's work is represented in major museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and others.

Excellent condition; minute spot at right likely from printing process; not examined out of frame.