HUGH MERRILL b. Maryland 1949; resides in St. Louis, Missouri

Hugh Merrill was awarded his undergraduate degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a Master of Fine Art from Yale University. He became a faculty member of the Kansas City Art Institute in 1976 and is a tenured professor there.

Merrill is noted as a printmaker for his series of sequential etchings. He has produced prints based on historical/social themes such as the 'Raoul Wallenberg Suite," "The Rosa Luxemburg Suite" and the suite "Do Unto." Merrill began  an ongoing sequential series of etchings titled "Infinite Image/Facts of Fictions" in 1995. This series is meant to continue for decades, documenting his images and ideas over a lifetime.

The artist's interest in collaboration with a non-arts audience has lead to his working with young people, mostly from the inner city, to create collaborative/communal art works. Merrill developed and implemented a series of community art/printmaking projects with inner city youth, special needs children and rural communities to create artworks that memorialize the everyday experiences of living.

In 2009 a retrospective, “Divergent Consistencies: The Studio and Community Art of Hugh Merrill, 1969-2009,” was mounted at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Among Merrill's many honors are four Mellon Grants. His work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Minneapolis Art Institute, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; San Antonio Art Institute, Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Yale Museum of Fine Arts in New Haven, Connecticut.

The following vitreograph prints comprise Merrill's "Boy's Archive," series:

Black Language, 1998

Vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 20

image size 17¼ x 22½; paper size 22½ x 26¾         $750* 

Circus Dream Again, 1998

Vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 20

image size 17¼ x 22½; paper size 22½ x 26¾         $750*

Circus Dream Again was included in On/Off Over the Edge, a traveling exhibition organized by the American Print Alliance. The prints, works on paper and artists' books selected for the exhibition explored the concept of the edge in all of its a possibilities. The exhibition toured from 2001 through 2003 and was seen in art museums and university galleries from Florida to Washington.

Cotton Shooter, 1998

 Vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 20    

image size 17¼ x 22½; paper size 22½ x 26¾                               $750*

Headman Jobbing, 1998

Vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 20

image size 17¼ x 22½; paper size 22½ x 26¾                                $750*

Italian Pony, 1998 

Vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 20

image size 17¼ x 22½; paper size 22½ x 26¾                                $750*

Reload, 1998

Vitreograph on  Rives BFK, Edition of 20

image size 17¼ x 22½; paper size 22½ x 26¾                             $750* 

Who Be Boo, 1998

Vitreograph on  Rives BFK White, Edition of 20

image size 17¼ x 22½; paper size 22½ x 26¾                             $750* 

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