Saratoga artist for heritage museum

By Irish Echo Staff

The Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany will feature artist Greg Montgomery in a presentation and reception on Tuesday, Aug. 23.

Montgomery is widely known for his annual poster saluting the high summer horse racing meeting in Saratoga Springs and its famed Travers Stakes.

Montgomery is also featured in the museum's current exhibit, “Across the Board: 30 Years of Greg Montgomery's art at Saratoga.”

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Tuesday’s gathering begins at 7 p.m.

Greg Montgomery received his formal art training at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he studied painting and lithography, and at the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York, where he studied serigraphy.

Recently, he has taken two watercolor master classes in Europe with the Australian watercolorist David K. Taylor.

After completing his degree in New Mexico, Montgomery worked as art director and set designer for public television in New Mexico.

As art director for General Electric’s Corporate Marketing Communications Operation in Albany, he worked on major campaigns for the power systems and plastic business components, and on the world-renowned GE calendar.

He subsequently moved to the world of publications as art director for Capital Region magazine. He recently retired from the Albany Times Union newspaper where he worked as a design editor.

Montgomery currently works as an illustrator and designer accepting projects and commissioned portraits.

A native of Washington, D.C., he travels extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Europe and Asia, capturing images with pen, paint and camera.

According to a release on the museum event, his “clean colors, dynamic form, and unusual use of white space make his work unparalleled in the field of equestrian, sporting, and poster art.”

His series of posters for the Travers Stakes race in Saratoga Springs, NY, is the longest running series by a single artist for a single event in racing history.

“Over the years, Greg’s bold and striking images of the racing scene have steadily increased in popularity. Today, his posters and prints hang in public and private collections worldwide and in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress,” said the release.

The Irish American Heritage Museum is located at 370 Broadway in Albany. Admission for the program is free to museum members and $5 for non-members. More at (518)427-1916.

 

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