page_title: Gerry Peirce
section_title: Tucson
hierarchical_section_title: Gerry Peirce / Tucson
caption_attribution_description: English: etching by Gerry Peirce
context_page_description: Gerry Peirce was an American artist who specialized as a watercolorist and printmaker. He is best known for his dry point plate etchings and ethereal watercolors of Arizona desert landscapes, cactus, mountains.
context_section_description: Peirce established a print atelier in Tucson in 1934. The studio, known as “The Print Room,” was originally located in “Governor’s Corner” at 158 North Court Street, was relocated to Charles O. Brown House in the early 1940s. He called the building the “Old Adobe,” a name that stuck for decades. Arizona transformed his work. Peirce turned to the desert for inspiration, his prints capturing the tonality and stark grandeur of the Sonoran desert. His compositions are infused with solace, dignity, and the ethereal beauty of the west. In 1939, in partnership with his friend and contemporary Stanford Stevens, he illustrated the publication “Plants of Sun and Sand.” His prints gradually gained national recognition. His work is accessioned into the permanent collection of institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Library of Congress, the Smithsonian and Harvard’s Fogg Museum.
caption: etching by Gerry Peirce
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