SCOTT PRIOR (1949 ) Northampton City Hall

Sale 2678 - Lot 123

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SCOTT PRIOR (1949- )
Northampton City Hall.

Oil and collage on board, 1973. 255x247 mm; 10x9⅝ inches. Signed and dated in felt-tip pen on the frame back.

Provenance
Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York (label).
Private corporate collection, New York.

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Scott Prior has lived and worked in Northampton, Massachusetts since 1971. He came of age in New England during a time of confluence in American Art; abstract artists, Pop, representational, and photorealists all vied for the spotlight in the 1960's. Prior, however looked to the past for inspiration, most notably influenced by Edward Hopper's use of light. As in the present painting, Prior used photographs and sketches to create his compositions. His paintings with collage from this time period are compact, painted in a realist style, and incorporate surrealist elements.

Prior was born into a middle class family in Exeter, New Hampshire and was raised in Topsfield, Massachusetts, another small New England Town. He excelled in science just as much as he did in art and enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1967 intending to major in astronomy. He soon switched his interest to printmaking, intrigued by its inherent technicality. He graduated in 1971 and decided to pursue a career as a painter. During the late 1970's Prior was a resident artist at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire and the Ossabaw Island Program in Georgia, and in 1979 he won a fellowship from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. Since his first solo exhibition at Alpha Gallery in Boston in 1977, Prior's work has been shown internationally. His artwork is collected by many private and public institutions, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.