1054 31st STREET, NW       WASHINGTON, D.C. 20007

Percy Martin

For over twenty-five years, Mr. Martin has been quietly working on a series of lush and technically complex prints detailing the daily lives and rituals of the Bushmen, a mythological people and culture born of his imagination. 

Percy Martin is a printmaker and teacher of art who has lived in Washington, DC since 1947.  He studied printmaking and graphic design at the Corcoran Gallery of Art where he received a Ford Foundation Fellowship in 1966.  The National Endowment for the Arts awarded him an Artist-in-Residence in 1975.  Since 1967 Mr. Martin has taught private classes in etching and has been the Director of W.D. Printmaking Workshop in Washington.  He has taught at the New Thing Art and Architecture Center, the University of Maryland, the Corcoran School of Art and finally at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, where he presently teaches.  He has been active with Special Education Projects, teaching inmates at Lorton Prison, and has been a printmaking instructor at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

His work has been shown widely in the United States, Africa, the Ukraine and Russia.  He has been in many exhibitions and one-man shows and is in numerous private collections.  Mr. Martin’s works have been shown in traveling exhibitions with the Smithsonian Institution being taken to Central America, various South American countries, and fourteen African countries.

Parish Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, from noon to 6 pm; other hours by appointment.