| EDITOR'S NOTE: The "Postcard from Amherst" presentation on the inside front cover of our winter issue was made possible by the generous support of BPG Associates and its client, the Barletta Company. |
Pink Cow/Green Cow, 1981, by John Roy, oil on canvas, 48" x 36"
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JOHN
ROY was born in Springfield in 1930 and died in Northampton in
June, 2001. A graduate of Saint John's Preparatory School in Danvers and
of Yale University, where he studied with Josef Albers, he taught at UMass
from 1965 to 1994 and was a major mentor to several generations of students.
He was a leading theorist of the perceptual effects of color and an innovator
in the use of computers to study them; in 1999, he wrote that in his current
painting, which employed a uniform distribution of quarter-inch units
in red, green, and blue, "colors can be
produced as a
spatial blend perceptually disengaged from the pigments used to produce
them. It is the intrigue of this incongruity that draws me on and encourages
me to continue exploring the intricacies of working with purely perceptual
colors as a means of developing images of the landscape."
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John Roy, 1999, by Stephen Long
Pink Cow/Green Cow presented in UMass Magazine, with a contribution to the John Roy Memorial Scholarship in Art, by BPG Associates and its client, The Barletta Company.