Jack Spencer (Born 1951) American, "Buffalo" Mixed Media Print. Pigment print with mixed media glaze produced in 2007, from "This Land: An American Portrait series," matted and framed beneath glass. Signed bottom right. 

Overall Size: 28 1/2 x 32 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 14 x 17 3/4 in. 

Jack Spencer was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1951, and spent his early life in the rural South before eventually settling in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was introduced to photography. In the early 1990s he became a highly influential self-taught photographer whose works skewed the boundaries between documentary realism and painterly abstraction, distressing his prints in the darkroom with pigments, glazes, and physical abrasions to create a sense of mythic, “sepia-tinted” history. His seminal series, Native Soil, explored the complex emotional and racial landscape of the American South, while later projects like Apariciones (focused on Mexico) and This Land (an 80,000-mile odyssey across 48 states) cemented his reputation as a master of atmospheric storytelling. Today his work is held in several permanent private and public collections, including at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

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