Triple Targets #48

Original silkscreen print by artist Peter Gee showing three panels of targets: on the right a bubblegum pink panel with magenta targets, in the middle a maroon panel with similarly muted green targets, and on the right a neon pink panel with cyan targets—once again with the same muted tone. Gee's ability to combine wildly different pigments while still maintaining an aesthetic consistency demonstrates his genius for color. Peter Gee was a British-born artist who rose to prominence as part of the 60s pop art movement in New York. Before moving to Manhattan in 1962, Gee had achieved moderate success in Europe. At 18, he joined the British army as a graphic designer, and soon after, his work was exhibited in the galleries of Paris and London. It wasn’t until New York, however, that Peter Gee’s now iconic style really took off. A Peter Gee print is instantly recognizable: the arrangement of basic shapes, usually targets and daisies, over strips of color has an immediacy that is totally i