On View
Not on viewObject number1973/4.79
Mohawk Hills
Artist
Richard Mayhew
(American, 1924 - 2024)
Date1974
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsframe: 52 5/16 × 48 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (132.9 × 122.6 × 3.8 cm)
canvas: 44 × 48 in. (111.8 × 121.9 cm)
canvas: 44 × 48 in. (111.8 × 121.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of the National Endowment for the Arts and Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Gilmore
Exhibition History"50 Works for the Permanent Collection," KIA (May 3 - June 2, 1974).
"Energy and Inspiration: African American Art from the Permanent Collection," KIA Long Gallery (Jan. 13 - Apr. 14, 2006).
"Embracing Diverse Voices: African-American Art in the Collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts," KIA Galleries 3&4(Oct. 3 - Nov. 29, 2009).
"Embracing Diverse Voices: 80 Years of African-American Art," KIA Traveling Exhibition, Bakersfield Museum of Art (Dec. 13, 2012 – Mar. 10, 2013).
Double Take: Artists Respond to the Collection, KIA, August 23, 2014 - January 18, 2015.
"Common Ground: African American Art from the Flint Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, and the Muskegon Museum of Art," FIA, Flint, Michigan (Feb. 8 - Apr. 26, 2015), KIA, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (Aug. 21 - Nov. 15, 2015), Muskegon Museum of Arts, Muskegon, Michigan (
"Embracing Diverse Voices: A Century of African-American Art," KIA Traveling Exhibition, North Carolina Central University Art Museum (October 7 - December 12, 2016).
"Resilience: African American Artists as Agents of Change," at the KIA (September 14, 2019 - February 16, 2020)
"EXPO Chicago 2023" Chicago, Navy Pier (April 11 - 14, 2023).
"Unveiling American Genius," KIA Permanent Collection Exhibition, Traditional, Markin, Nay and Groos Galleries (March 1, 2021 - December 31, 2023).Label TextThe artist said of his work, "Many of my so-called landscapes are very abstract because they are very free-form; I am involved with the spiritual feeling of space. Just to work with figures would be very limiting because that would identify a particular place or situation. The paintings look like landscapes but that is not necessarily my preoccupation in painting.' His consistent investigation of abstraction within landscape has been a feature of his work since the mid-1960s, when he received critical acclaim and was a member of the Spiral Group. His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art (where he had his first solo exhibition in 1950) and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
