Everett's Barn, 1991
Silkscreen on Paper, 22" x 30"
Nancy McIntyre was born in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1950, and received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1972. She relocated to the Washington, DC, area in 1975 and currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia, where she has taught silkscreen printing at the Art League since 1997. McIntyre works mostly with silkscreen prints, and typically applies between 13 and 133 layers of ink for each work. Her prints elevate common scenes, as McIntyre explains: “Windows and porches — public edges of private lives — are the subjects I have returned to most often. I want my art to say: treasure those battered old porches and those cluttered, human-scale storefronts while they’re still around. As you pass by, notice them.” McIntyre’s prints have been exhibited at the National Building Museum, the Corcoran Gallery Museum, the Phillips Collection, and the Library of Congress. They are in numerous permanent and private collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Philadelphia Free Library.