Hugh Gumpel, N.A., A.W.S. (member of the National Academy of Design and of the American Watercolor Society), has exhibited nationally and internationally, taking numerous prizes and awards.
For many years he taught drawing and painting at the National Academy School in New York City , and at the State University of New York at Purchase as an adjunct professor.
Before entering the U.S. Navy in 1943, he studied with George Grosz at the Art Students League. He served in the Pacific theater during World War II. After the war, thanks to the GI bill he studied at Columbia University and the Grande Chaumière in Paris.
He has had numerous one-man shows in New York City and elsewhere, and he has shown in Paris, London, Germany, Mexico and Canada. His work is found in public and private collections in the United States and abroad.
Hugh describes his current work: "Since arriving in Maine in 1999, I've devoted a good deal of time exploring a quasi-graphic medium, an innovation that deviates from the usual etching process and avoids the hazards connected with it. These are images from my imagination and thoughts. They are incised on metal plates of various gauges and printed with the use of digital processing."
2008