Maury Pepin's Family Collection

Bill's Comment about the Little Spaceship Crash: Spanning two years of development and about 75 impressions, Little Spaceship Crash was the seed for a larger work. These came out of the movie, Planet of the Apes. I like to tell the story about the path flown by the helicopter filming it, and then my entry into computers graphics and how I learned the X-Y-Z of IT. This print was test of methods I would need for a larger version, then the tests resulted in an edition that stood on its own.

Private collections: Evonne Agnello, Billie Jane Bryan, Zena Chew, Larry Dillon, Linda Farris Estate, Alfred Harrison, Kim & Carol Hoffman, Eric Hoffman, Ronna Hoffman, Ross Jones Estate, Keith Kirkpatrick, David Lonay, Dennis Evans & Nancy Mee, Anne Middleton, Walter Parsons, Ed & Anne Praczukowski, James "Bud" Richardson, Lynda Ritchie, Carol Fuller- Schwab, Lori Shepard, Keith Beckley & Presha  Sparling, Peggy Vanbianchi, and Carolyn Law & Andy Weisbecker Institutions and corporate collections: Art Planning Consultants, New York, NY; Baker University, Baldwin, KS; Landau/Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles CA;Oregon Arts Commission; Bill Mally Collection, University of Washington IMS, Seattle, WA; Norton Building, Seattle, WA; Teller Training Institute, Seattle, WA; United Pacific Reliance Corporation,  CA; USIA Tokyo, Japan.

Exhibitions: Anne Hughes Gallery, Portland, OR; Davidson Galleries, Seattle (where it won an award), WA; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA; Kiku Gallery, Seattle, WA;  Silvermine Guild of Arts, New Canaan, CT; US Information Agency, Tokyo Japan; Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, AK

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About Maury Pepin: Maury was a student in my printmaking classes at the UW. I learned on the Internet that Maury Pepin had died in 2004, his obituary is below. He is shown to have been an expert in telescopes. He left a print in the Graduated Student's Folio--an etching with precise circle designs in it - a nice print!

Obituary: "Maury Barlow Pepin, 54, of Duncanville, passed away Saturday, July 31, 2004. Mr. Pepin was born Nov. 17, 1949, in Pasadena, Calif., to the late Maurice Currie and Jeanette Ida (Pinkham) Pepin. Born the great-grandson of one of the pioneer families that settled Seattle, Wash., he grew up around the world as an Air Force officer brat. On a National Merit Scholarship, he attended Centenary College in Shreveport and later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from the University of Washington in Seattle. For many years he ran an art conservation business in Volusia County, Fla. An avid amateur astronomer and gifted writer, Pepin was a former associate editor at Sky and Telescope magazine in Cambridge, Mass., and managing editor of Amateur Telescope Makers Journal in Seattle Wash. Pepin’s book Care of Astronomical Telescopes and Accessories is scheduled for publication in October by Springer-Verlag London."

Maury Pepin print, 1976 etching - returned to Maury's sister

  
Emeralda Artist Trading Card, the first such design in a Bill Ritchie's game.