| Noel Mahaffey | ||
| Birth Date: 1944 |
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| Death Date: c. 1984 Artist Gallery |
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| Noel Mahaffey was born in St. Augustine, Florida in 1944 and attended art classes at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in 1959. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy from 1962 to 1966 and continues to reside in Philadelphia.
Mahaffey's paintings resemble large-scale postcards of American cities and urban landscapes and are considered part of the Photo Realism movement of the 1960s. The oblique angle of vision and the distant viewpoint prevent direct involvement with the subject. Dark silhouettes form a flat pattern against a sky that is often not defined; the buildings are cropped; no compositional focal point disturbs the image.
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