Rosemary Feit Covey’s 500 piece collection at Georgetown University Library

Rosemary Feit Covey’s 500 piece collection at Georgetown University Library. This collection encompasses the entire graphic oeuvre from 1967 to 2010 of the South African-born artist Rosemary Feit Covey. Including some 500 works, the collection was amassed over several decades by Eric Lansdowne Mackenzie and generously donated to Georgetown University Library in 2011.  Mackenzie had published the catalogue raisonné of Covey’s graphic work the previous year, and the descriptive information in these Digital Georgetown records is drawn from his catalog.

 

Encouraged as a high school student by the renowned wood engraver and illustrator Barry Moser, Covey began working in the challenging medium of wood engraving in 1975. The stark linearity and rich darkness of this expressive medium can heighten the psychological effect of the subject and proved the ideal medium for Covey’s imagery. She found that the act of carving into wood required a level of concentration and effort that “drew from a deeper reserve” than the act of painting. Through this intensely physical process she was enabled to bring more deeply felt imagery to the surface, drawn from memories of her youth or daily experience.

Rosemary Feit Covey is a prolific, award-winning artist who maintains a working studio at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia. From 2007 to 2008, Covey served as Artist-in-Residence at Georgetown University Medical Center, and in 2014 she had a major retrospective at the Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum and Library. Her work is represented in the Smithsonian Institution and the New York Public Library, among other public collections.

 

View the collection HERE.

Available artwork by ROSEMARY FEIT COVEY.

Morton Fine Art

1781 Florida Ave NW

Washington, DC 20009

(202) 628-2787

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Universal price increase on work by ROSEMARY FEIT COVEY beginning January 2013

Rosemary Feit Covey, “Fish”, 40″x36″, mixed media on canvas

 

This price adjustment is long overdue and is in recognition of Rosemary’s artistic accomplishments throughout her career. Her work is housed in over forty major museum and library collections worldwide, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the New York Public Library Print Collection, the National Museum of American History, Harvard University and the Papyrus Institute in Cairo, Egypt. In 2012 more than 500 of her prints were acquired for the permanent collection of Georgetown University Library, Special Collections. In addition, Ms. Covey has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as completed commissioned book illustrations published by Simon & Schuster and William Morrow.

 

Here is a look at additional recent and noteworthy highlights of Rosemary Feit Covey:

 

Complete Collection Acquisition

Special Collections at Georgetown University Library Department of Prints and Drawing

512 wood engravings acquired, catalogued and made available to collectors and scholars

 

Solo Retrospective Exhibition – Museum

Exhibition- Retrospective Spring Summer 2014

Evergreen Museum John Hopkins University

http://www.museums.jhu.edu/evergreen

 

Solo Exhibition – Morton Fine Art

June 2012

Morton Fine Art

1781 Florida Ave NW

Washington, DC 20009

www.mortonfineart.com

 

Group Exhibitions – International

24th November 2012 – 20th January 2013:

75th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers

Victoria Art Gallery

By Pulteney Bridge

Bath BA2 4AT

 

29th January 2013 – 10th February 2013:

75th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers

Bankside Gallery next to the Tate Modern

48 Hopton Street

London SE1 9JH

 

Studio Visit

Berlin Collective

Sunday, December 9th 2012

www.berlincollective.de

 

Residency

Spiro Arts 2012 artist in Residence

Park City, Utah

 

Morton Fine Art hopes to provide our collectors with adequate fair warning of the upcoming across-the-board price increase for the work of Rosemary Feit Covey. Again, no changes will be implemented until 2013, so please contact the gallery if you have pieces of interest and we are more than happy to provide current and upcoming pricing details. We are so proud of Rosemary’s accomplishments!

 

Rosemary Feit Covey, Johannesburg 1958, wood engraving

512 Pieces of Rosemary Feit Covey’s Work Acquired by Georgetown University

512 Pieces of Rosemary Feit Covey’s Work Acquired by Georgetown University

 In 2012, Georgetown University Library collection of Prints and Drawings acquired 512 of Rosemary’s wood engravings for its permanent collection. Georgetown’s collection of over 15,000 fine prints is particularly strong in twentieth-century American artists and includes extensive collections of the works of Grace Albee, Lynd Ward, Barry Moser, Werner Drewes, and many others. The entire scanned collection of Rosemary’s work will be available for collectors and scholars, on the Library’s website in the next year.