Kom Ombo, a Watercolor by John Loy

KOM OMBO (1987)

Watercolor, ~9 1/2 by 14 inches. Artist framed. Signed lower right: “Loy, ’87”

Like Edward Christiana, John Loy, and his wife, Mary Gaylord, taught painting at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute in Utica, New York. 

Loy began his art education at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Colorado College, and continued his studies at Washington University, School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, Missouri.  He was awarded a fellowship at the Yale-Norfolk Summer Art School in Norfolk, Connecticut in 1954. In 1958, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. After graduation he returned to St. Louis (his birthplace), where he was appointed Program Director at the Peoples Art Center and taught drawing at the Washington University School of Architecture. In 1960 he joined the faculty at the School of Art, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, in Utica, NY, as a painting and drawing instructor.  He taught there until his retirement in 1991.

Of his artwork he states: “I am an artist primarily interested in the formal elements of painting—the interaction of lines, shapes, patterns, and colors. My ideas are frequently derived from the technique of collage, which I use as a point of departure. I am fascinated by the manipulation and juxtaposition of fragmented shapes and images. I use these fragments for their visual quality, not their symbolism.

“Technically speaking, I am a perfectionist and a precisionist. Although the finished work may appear predetermined, the work in progress usually goes through many changes. However, I do not want the working process to be evident, only the final result.”

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(JL-EZX)