Vernon Pratt (NC, 1940-2000), Graffiti

acrylic and spray enamel on Fabriano paper, 1987, signed and dated to lower right, inscribed en verso, float mounted in a silvered frame under glass.
Sheet size 26 1/4 x 40 in.; Frame dimensions 32 1/2 x 45 in.
Vernon Pratt was an associate professor of art at Duke University. A graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, Pratt enrolled at Duke in 1958 but finished his undergraduate and master's degrees at the San Francisco Art Institute. He returned to Duke in 1964 as a professor, a position he held until his untimely death in 2000.

Pratt may be best known for creating the massive, publicly funded Education Wall across from the Legislative Office Building in Raleigh. The Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NCSU has mounted two exhibitions of his work, All The Possibilities of Filling in Sixteenths (65,536) in 2018 and Permutations, Progressions + Possibilities = The Art of Vernon Pratt in 2016. His work is also in the permanent collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art.

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Good estate condition, not examined outside the frame.