Andrew Stein Raftery (born May 22, 1962, in Goldsboro,

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) is an American artist and educator, known for his paintings, burin

engraving Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ar ...

s, and drawings on fictional and autobiographical narratives of contemporary American life.

Biography

In 1984, Raftery earned his B.F.A. degree in painting from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

, and took his first

intaglio printing Intaglio ( ; ) is the family of printing and printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink. It is the direct opposite of a relief print where the parts of the matrix that m ...

class with .Raftery, Andrew. "Genealogies: Tracing Stanley William Hayter,
''Art in Print'' Vol. 2 No. 3
(September–October 2012), 6, 8. In 1988, he completed his M.F.A. degree in printmaking from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. He is a professor at

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

teaching in the printmaking and painting departments, since 1991. He credits

Stanley William Hayter Stanley William Hayter (27 December 1901 – 4 May 1988) was an English painter and master printmaker associated in the 1930s with surrealism and from 1940 onward with abstract expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers ...

and his proteges in

Atelier 17 Atelier 17 was an art school and studio that was influential in the teaching and promotion of printmaking in the 20th century. Originally located in Paris, the studio relocated to New York City during the years surrounding World War II. It moved ...

as an influence, and the collection of Charles Randall Dean as a guide, before its acquisition by the

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. In 2004, Raftery's work was featured in

Jonathan Weinberg Jonathan Weinberg (born 1957) is an American artist and art historian. He is a critic at the Yale School of Art. Early life Weinberg grew up in New York City and attended the Fieldston School. He studied as an undergraduate at Yale University w ...

’s book, ''Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art.'' Raftery helped contribute to the 2009 publishing of the

RISD Museum The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Museum) is an art museum integrated with the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island, US. The museum was co-founded with the school in 1877. It is the 20th-largest art m ...

exhibition catalog, ''The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650'' alongside Emily J. Peters and Evelyn Lincoln (of Brown University). His major works in this period were the portfolios ''Suit Shopping'' (2000–2002) and ''Open House'' (2004–2008). In 2009, he was elected as an academic member of the

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in New York City. From that year until 2012, Raftery assisted in research at the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of larg ...

on the wear of engraved copper plates through printing, necessary for more confident dating of historical prints; this required using a traditional hammered copper plate and lozenge-shaped burin for the first time in his career.

Awards

Raftery has earned many awards including the

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Fellowship in printmaking, narrative engraving project from the Rhode Island State Council for the arts in 2001, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2003, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award in 2006, John R. Frazier Award for excellence in teaching from RISD in 2007 and the

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in 2008.

Collections

His work is included in the public art collections of the select following; *

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at Phillips Academy Andover, in Andover, Massachusetts, U.S.; *

British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...

, London, United Kingdom; *

Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Located in the Wade Park District of University Circle, the museum is internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian art, Asian and Art of anc ...

, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.; * Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.; *

Fogg Museum The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four research ...

at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.; *

, New York, New York, U.S.; *

Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is an arts museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Home to more than 90,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history, Mia is one of the largest art museums in the United Stat ...

, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.; *

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the list of largest art museums, 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 painting ...

, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.; *

New York Public Library The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress a ...

, New York, New York, U.S.; *

Princeton University Art Museum The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is the Princeton University gallery of art, located in Princeton, New Jersey. With a collecting history that began in 1755, the museum was formally established in 1882, and now houses over 117,000 work ...

, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.; *

Rhode Island School of Design Museum The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Museum) is an art museum integrated with the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island, US. The museum was co-founded with the school in 1877. It is the 20th-largest art m ...

, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.; *

Spencer Museum of Art The Spencer Museum of Art is an art museum operated by the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. History In 1917, the Kansas City art collector Sallie Casey Thayer donated her collection of over seven thousand works of art, ...

at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.; *

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighbor ...

, New York, New York, U.S.; *

Yale University Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is an art museum in New Haven, Connecticut. It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University. Although it embraces all cultures and period ...

, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.;

References

External links

Andrew Raftery's RISD printmaking department profile
* Video
''Labor That Makes Beauty''
from PopTech (2015) * Video:
Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Philippson Bible
' (2008), roundtable with Diane O'Donoghue (moderator), Mary Bergstein, Abigail Gillman, Bennett Simon, Andrew Stein Raftery
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow Profile (2008)

Andrew Raftery's National Academy profile
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