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Trenton Doyle Hancock at work at Graphicstudio.
Photo by Will Lytch | Graphicstudio
Four highly inventive prints produced at USF Graphicstudio are now a part of the National Gallery of Art Collection. The prints, created by Trenton Doyle Hancock between 2010 and 2012 at the university atelier, are the artist’s first works to be selected for the collection.
“When Graphicstudio’s publications [fine art prints] are acquired by the National Gallery of Art or other major museums and collections, it is a recognition of the quality of the artworks produced by the studio in collaboration with emerging and established artists,” says Graphicstudio director Margaret Miller. “The prints will remain in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in perpetuity and admission is always free, so the broadest public can enjoy the prints.”
Known for his prints, drawings and collaged felt paintings that tell stories of a fantastical nature, Hancock’s featured works include a four-color lithograph and three aquatint etchings.
The announcement from the National Gallery, which called the prints “especially fine examples of [Hancock’s] distinctive imagery and quirky sense of humor,” included a nod for Graphicstudio:
“This gift represents yet another instance of Graphicstudio’s commitment to bring work by important contemporary artists into the National Gallery’s holdings.”
Works selected by the National Gallery of Art include, from left, “Give Me My Flowers While I Yet Live” and “We Done All We Could And None of It’s Good.” Hancock’s works, “A Nocturne” and “Like a Thief In The Night,” were also selected.
Photo by Will Lytch | Graphicstudio