An Autumnal Afternoon - Great Lakes Industrial Tableau and Diminuendo, No. 3

 

Kevin Fletcher

  1956 - PRESENT (biography)

2018  

monotype 

8 15/16 x 11 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

1 of 1 unique 

pencil titled, dated, and editioned; annotated "Kevin G. Fletcher - Santa Rosa, CA / a unique print with 'ghost' material utilized from the prior pull but reworked w/ darks on Magnani Pescia soft white" 

 

Magnani Pescia soft white wove 

published 

artist 

KEFL320 

$700.00 

The word "diminuendo" refers to a decrease in loudness or intensity, and in this monotype from 2018 Kevin Fletcher appears to use the term to suggest the decline of industrial prowess in the American Midwest - his homeland. Fletcher often returns to themes of working class extinction and the abandonment of one form of progress for another, often at the cost of local prosperity. Yet his work is an ode as much as it is a lament: with Whistlerian tenderness, he renders the angularity of disintegrating warehouses, marinas, and machines against moody atmospheres, juxtaposing former glory with the march of time.