Art Werger (1955-) Title: 9 PM Kansas City Series: Time frames from Midnight to Midnight Year: 2002 Type: Mezzotint. Title inscribed in pencil under the image, signed and dated. AW= artist embossed stamp lower right. Includes bio. Dimension: 11 1/4 x 9 3/4" Image: 4 3/4 x 4 3/4" Art Werger has received over 250 awards in national and international exhibitions including:Special Award for remarkable contribution: 9th International Graphic Triennial, Bitola, Macedonia, 2018Grand Prize: Third International Mezzotint Festival in Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2015Award of the Rector: International Print Triennial in Krakow, Poland, 2012Art Werger grew up in the suburbs of New York where he developed a passion for drawing at an early age. After studying illustration and painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, he switched into the field of printmaking.Over the last thirty years, he has focused on etching, aquatint and mezzotint and has become an internationally renowned artist in those media having received over 250 awards in national and international exhibitions.In 2012 he received the Award of the Rector at the International Print Triennial in Krakow, Poland and the Prize for Full Correspondence between technique and Imagery at the First International Mezzotint Festival in Ekaterinburg, Russia.Werger has works in the collection of the Guanlan Printmaking Base in China, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Boston Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Trenton Museum in New Jersey and over three hundred corporate and private collections.

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