KENNETH KERSLAKE 1930 - 2007

A respected printmaker, Kenneth Kerslake was one of a handful of art educators responsible for the growth of printmaking in the southeast in the years following World War II. His teaching career was spent at the University of  Florida in Gainesville, which honored him with the title of Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus after his retirement.

He was born in Mount Vernon, New York. In 1958, fresh out of college, Kerslake was hired by the University of Florida to develop a printmaking program for its art department.  He did that and went on to have a thirty-eight year teaching career at the University of Florida.  Kerslake was a founding member of the American Print Alliance and was very active in the Southern Graphics Council, serving as that body's president from 1990 to 1992.

Kerslake's formal study of art began in 1950 at Pratt Institute in New York City, where he was encouraged by teachers Philip Guston and Roger Crossgrove.  With the latter's encouragement, Kerslake transferred to the University of Illinois in Champaign in 1953. There, he discovered his medium when he took an intaglio  printmaking course with Professor Lee Chesney, a mentor who was to become a life-long friend. Kerslake went on to earn both a BFA and MFA from the University of Illinois.

Kerslake first visited Littleton Studios Spruce Pine, North Carolina, in 1991. There he  mastered the technique of glass-plate intaglio printmaking, or vitreography. He returned many times to Littleton Studios. His last visit was in summer, 2003.

Kenneth Kerslake's work is in numerous collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, The Library of Congress, the National Gallery, Washington, DC; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; The High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. His honors included a lifetime achievement award for Excellence in Printmaking Education from the Southern Graphics Council in 2004.

Wind Warped, 1990  

Intaglio vitreograph on Arches, Edition of 50

image size: 19 x 24 inches, paper size  30 x 36 inches                        $600*

Sunlight Blues, 1991 

Intaglio vitreograph on Somerset,  Edition of 50

image size: 24 x 19 inches; paper size 30 x 22 inches                           $800*

Bouquet, 1991  

Intaglio vitreograph on Somerset,  Edition of 50

image size: 30 x 23 inches; paper size 40 x 30 inches                         $650*

Receding Shadows of Our Conversations, 1991  

Siligraph on Arches 88,  Edition of 23

image size: 18 x 12 1/2 inches; paper size: 25½ x 20 inches             $700*

A View from the Patio, 1992

Vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 23

image size: 16 x 20 inches; paper size: 22 x 25 inches                        $750*

Tourists: Where are we going? When will we get there? (Diptych), 1993 

Vitreograph on Arches White, Edition of 26

image size: 19 x 24 inches (each); paper size: 19 x 48 inches (together),     $1,200*

Messengers, 1997

Vitreograph on Arches 88, Edition of 42

image size: 22½ x 17¼ inches; paper size: 29 x 22½ inches                $750*

The Journal: Filtered Memories, 1998  

 Vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 31

 image size: 24 x 18 inches; paper size:  30 x 22 ½ inches                $750*

Time Line, 2001

Vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 29

image size: 18 x 24 inches; paper size: 30 x 24 inches                        $600*

What the Shadow Revealed, 2001

Vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 30

image size: 24 x 18 inches; paper size: 30 x 22 ½ inches                    $650*

*Prices are subject to change without notice.

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