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

North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and So ...

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

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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 research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

, 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 research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. He is a professor at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) 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 printmaker associated in the 1930s with surrealism and from 1940 onward with abstract expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of ...

and his proteges in Atelier 17 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 wi ...

’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, and still shares multiple build ...

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

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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

Fritz Eichenberg Fritz Eichenberg (October 24, 1901 – November 30, 1990) was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion, social justice and nonviolence. Biograph ...

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

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative abi ...

in 2008.

Collections

His work is included in the public art collections of the select following; * Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy Andover, in Andover, Massachusetts, U.S.; *

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

, London, United Kingdom; * Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.; * Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.; * Fogg Museum 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 State ...

, 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 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...

, 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 ...

, 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 113,000 works o ...

, 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, and still shares multiple build ...

, 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. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Spencer Museum seeks to "...present its collection as a living archive that motivates object-c ...

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 an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...

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

Yale University Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ...

, 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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