Homage to Charles Dean

Byron McClintock

Oregon born printmaker/painter Byron McClintock was an important part of the Abstract Expressionist movement in San Francisco, California in the 1950s.

His printmaking was re-discovered in the early 1990's by New York AbEx print collector Charles Dean. Byron began working in printmaking again, this time using color mezzotint, roulette and drypoint.

The Whitney Museum in New York purchased a few of his prints and hung them in a "Recent Acquisitions" exhibition. At Dean's urging McClintock traveled from Portland, Oregon to New York in 2004 to see his work hanging at the Whitney, his first trip to New York.

This image was done as a tribute to Dean, who McClintock credited with reviving both his interest in printmaking and in his career.