Owners of Wenniger Gallery

WENNIGER GALLERY's owners, Mary Ann and Mace, are both artists: Mary Ann, well known collagraph printmaker and teacher, and Mace, a painter specializing in the figure and portraits.  They have   arduously promoted original prints through their previous galleries, an Newbury Street in Boston and Provincetown, and their many books:

THE SECRET OF BUYING ART
COLLAGRAPHY PRINTMAKING
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TOLITHOGRAPHY

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Artist, teacher, author became a well respected art dealer because of her art history background and a consistently thorough approach to locating, understanding and promoting original fine prints. 

Mary Ann graduated from MT. St. Vincent in New York as an English major. She received an M.A. in art education from Harvard and a M.F.A. from Vermont College of Norwich University.

Mary Ann was one of the first artists to experiment with the collagraph during its genesis in the 1960's when the polymer glues were developed that make it possible to make printable permanently adhered collages. These glues and pastes made it possible to enlarge upon collage tradition that emerged in Europe after world war two, to adhere found materials to masonite bases.

The resulting print, a collagraph, is printed on wet paper that is linked using oil based inks and printed by means of a hand operated wringer type press.

Her collagraphs are admired for their hand wrought, painterly surfaces full of textures and richly contrasted colors and tones, their poetic titles and intimate subjects and their optimistic spirit. She purposely uses new colors for each print; thus each print is unique. Clients brag about getting the best inkings. The plates themselves are complete art works. They take a long time, often weeks, to assemble. Her goal is to combine the collagraph with sculptural elements. Her prints are in many private and corporate collections.

You are welcome to send us and email or contact us directly, if you are interested in learning the collagraph techniques. Click Here to View Mary Ann's Work.

Mace Wenniger, painter and colorist, specializes in the human figure and portraiture. His oil commissions of adults and children are begun in the studio or at the subjects home with brief poses totaling no more than 60-90 minutes. With the aid of photographs these sketches are transferred in the studio to the final painting. Mace's technique is characterized by firm lines and broad-brush strokes. Watercolor paintings of the figure are often drawn with the side of the palette knife dipped in pigment and then filled in with color washes. Beautiful spontaneous effects are often created by bleeding the color lines into the washes.

Classically trained in England at the Reading School of Art and in Paris at L'Ecole de la Grande Chaumier as a painter and scupltor, Mace's work is boldly structured yet keeps a spontaneity and the freshness of each medium. Mace had an early career as a city planner in Boston and in Chicago. In 1986, he joined Wenniger Gallery as treasurer and partner. Mace Wenniger works in his studio in Manchester-by-the-Sea and is available to paint portraits of children and young adults by appointment, on commission.

Mace Wenniger- Watercolorist, portraitist, at work, using palette knife to sharpen watercolor edges of forms.