Alice Garver

Art Brokerage: Alice Garver American Artist: b. 1924-1966. Alice Garver (1924-1966) was an American painter and printmaker, particularly known for large-format abstract expressionist drawings and monotype prints. She is recognized as an important Albuquerque, New Mexico artist. Garver also produced murals, most notably fifteen eight-by-twelve foot murals in Albuquerque's First National Bank Building East, which depicted various periods of New Mexico history; subjects include the Duke of Alburquerque (17th floor), the atomic age (16th floor), pioneer wagons, and indigenous peoples. The murals were created by sketching images, applying color to rice paper, and subsequent rubbing, with colors adhered to walls with the use of wheat paste. Relatively few works by Garver survive, including the murals, due to their delicate nature. Both Alice and Jack Garver's work appears to be influenced by the style of Jackson Pollock, particularly the "all-over" linear effect. Their paintings have been described as having "an autonomous quality, as if the painting had somehow, at least in part, materialized by itself, freed from the artist's hand." Alice achieves this effect through transferring color from another surface through rubbing, as described above; the result resembles a "natural discoloration." Listings wanted.