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Percy Martin
Born
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Artist, retired art teacher
Known forAllegorical printmaking

Percy Martin is an American artist and teacher.[1] Martin has lived in Washington, D.C. since 1947 and has taught several generations of Washington area art students, including the University of Maryland, the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and finally at the Sidwell Friends School, where he taught from 1979 to 2009.[2][3][4]

Education

Martin studied art and graduated from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design.[5][6]

Artwork

For over three decades, Martin has been working on a series of highly technical prints which detail the life, culture and history of an imaginary Bushmen people born out of Martin's imagination.[5][7][8]

Scenes from the Bushworld play out in Martin's mind as sharply as a movie. The most mundane objects can send him into a cross-dimensional corkscrew. While vacationing in the Ukraine in 1995, for instance, he picked up a smooth, oval stone on a river bank and immediately fell into a quasi-hallucination wherein angry Bushwomen were trying to crack a sacred bird's stone egg with a crystal egg to become High Priestess. "If I could've gotten a jet helicopter, I would've left that second," says Martin.[8]

His work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[9] The Washington Post[10][7], the City of Washington, DC,[11] and the University of Maryland,[10][7] and has been exhibited widely in galleries,[12][5] museums, universities,[13][14] and arts organization such as the Washington Project for the Arts.[5][15]

Awards

Martin was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship in 1966,[2] and nine years later, in 1975 he was also awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Artist-in-Residence award.[2]

References

  1. ^ Richard, Paul (October 6, 1982). "Out of Prints". The Washington Post.
  2. ^ a b c "Percy Martin". Art Impact USA. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  3. ^ "A Tribute to Percy Martin". Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  4. ^ Review, The Paris (2020-07-31). "Staff Picks: Cardboard Cities, Choral Singing, and Cross-Stitch". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  5. ^ a b c d Kernan, Michael (May 17, 1989). "Percy Martin, Myth Maker". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  6. ^ "Alumni US | Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University". alumnius.net. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  7. ^ a b c Ochoa, Guiomar Barbi (October 20, 2011). "Bushmen Dreams". Patch. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  8. ^ a b "World Without End". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  9. ^ "Percy Martin". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  10. ^ a b Marchand, Anne (October 21, 2011). "Percy Martin - Print Marker". Painterly Visions.
  11. ^ "Arty stuff this week… | Adventures of Hoogrrl!". Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  12. ^ ""Bushmen Dreams" at Parish Gallery | The Georgetown Dish". www.thegeorgetowndish.com. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  13. ^ "20 Years of Prints for the Washington Print Club's 40th Anniversary | Georgetown University Library". www.library.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  14. ^ "Selections from the Artery Collection". American University. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  15. ^ "CATALYST: Washington Project for the Arts presents its 35th anniversary exhibition". Washington Project for the Arts. November 19, 1988. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
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