Homage to the American Industrial Revolution #2-Drill Press, 1986
Acrylic on Canvas, 72" x 60"
Mark McDowell was born in Pennsylvania in 1954. He earned a B.F.A. in drawing and printmaking from Pennsylvania State University and did graduate work at Arizona State University. McDowell has shown his paintings and prints throughout the United States, particularly in the Southwest, including the Tucson Art Institute and the Scottsdale Center for the Arts. In 1983 he received a fellowship in printmaking from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His work can be found in the collections of Chase Manhattan Bank and the University of New Mexico. In the mid-1980s McDowell began a series of paintings on the Industrial Revolution in America as a kind of homage to tools that "make our lives on this planet a bit easier."
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.