1146697

Roy Purcell S/N Etching, Devils Gate toll load #1146697

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Roy Purcell S/N Etching, Devils Gate toll load #1146697
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Artist: Roy Purcell

Title: Devils Gate toll load

Year: 1980

Medium: Etching

Edition: 250

Paper Size: 43" x 29"






Roy Purcell has lived and worked as an artist in Las Vegas since 1970 and has created a large body of work in various media. While known throughout the southwest for his etchings, he has mastered watercolor, oil, pastel, ink, acrylic and pencil to express the world around him.



Born in 1936, Roy grew up in rural Utah, where he learned an appreciation of the earth and developed a sensitivity for its beauty. He appears to have sprung directly from the desert itself; tall and wiry with traces of his fiery red hair weaving through the gray, he personifies the life that thrives in the desert: patient, intent, vigorous. Like the desert after a thunderstorm, he is prolific; his work, like wildflowers, is dazzling at a distance and compelling in its detail.



Roy Purcell first gained national attention as an artist is 1966 when he painted ?The Journey?, 2000 square feet of murals on the granite cliff faces in the Cerbat Mountains near Chloride, Arizona. He had recently been working toward his Masters in Creative Writing and Fine Arts at Utah State University, and was working as a miner. The extraordinary taxing project provided Roy with the symbolic foundation for his future work, ?I could no longer hide from myself. I had begun a journey of self discovery from which I could never turn back.?




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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1980</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:43</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:29</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Roy Purcell S/N Etching, Devils Gate toll load</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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