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Orange and Blue in Art
2022 edition
with these artists:
Christina Bingle (1959- ), British
Herbert Davis Richter (1874-1955), British
Michel Droge, Portland, Maine, American
Per Anders, Danish
Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004), American
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Norwegian
Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944), Dutch
Tom Thomson (1877-1917), Canadian
Oranges on a Blue and White Cloth
Christina Bingle (1959- ), British
Oil on canvas, 25" x 21" (w x h), 1998
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944), Dutch
Source Cheltenham Group of Artists edited:
Christina Bingle attained her degree in Fine Art in 1982. She paints still lifes in her studio, landscapes in the field, and occasionally portraits. I am intrigued by light and color, and the beautiful complexities of oil paint. She's a member of the Cheltenham Group of Artists, exhibiting in group and solo shows locally and around Britain. She has paintings in private and public collections across the UK.
Eschscholtzia, Flower Study
Herbert Davis Richter (1874-1955), British
Oil on canvas, 24" x 20" (w x h)
Gift from Sir Ernest and Lady Swain, 1928
The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
Swan Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
Source Artists in Britain Since 1945:
Herbert Davis Richter was a painter, mainly in oil, if interiors and flowers. Born in Brighton, Sussex, he initially studied furniture design at Bath School of Art, and he continued to practice as a designer and architect there for about 10 years from the mid-1890s. Then, in London he studied painting. He exhibited prolifically, including RA, RBA, ROI, RSW, Goupil Gallery and Leicester Galleries. At the Paris Salon he won a silver medal, having won both gold and silver medals for furniture design at the Paris International Exhibition, 1900. His paintings are in the Victoria & Albert Museum and many British provincial and overseas galleries. His work is well shown in Paintings and Poems, which he published, with poems by Lady Margaret Sackville, in 1944.
Heart of Dynamene
Michel Droge, American
Oil on canvas
Exhibited: Maine Jewish Museum,
Portland, Maine
Source Artist's website, Portland (Maine) Press Herald and Maine College of Art and Design:
Michel Droge is an abstract painter and printmaker living and working in Portland, Maine. Her work and research implicate the relationship between the environment and its living creatures.
Since May of 2021, Michel Droge has been a Visiting Artist in Residence at Bigelow Laboratories for Ocean Studies in East Boothbay, Maine, meeting regularly with Dr. Beth Orcutt who studies microbial life in deep-sea environments and the effects of deep-sea mining on the ocean's ecosystems. In his Deep Sea series, Heart of Dynamene seems to depict deep sea hydrothermal vents with their orangey red eruptions amid cerulean blue grounds. The name comes from Greek mythology, Dynamene one of the 50 Nereids, sea nymphs that were daughters of Nereus and Doris.
Michel received her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA from Maine College of Art. After graduating from Oberlin, she worked as a printmaker for Styria Studios in New York City. She is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and two Maine Arts Commission Grants. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Tides Institute, The Joseph Fiore Foundation, The Stephen Pace House, and The Saltonstall Foundation.
Michel's solo exhibitions have been at the University of Maine Farmington, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, and the Frank Brockman Gallery. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at Bates College Art Museum, The ICA at MECA, Gould Academy, The Cue Art Foundation in New York City, and Boston University's Young Contemporaries.
December is Close
Per Anders, Danish
Acrylic, oil on paper, 23" x 31" (w x h), 2021
$1,530 USD
Preparations for December's homemade marmalade. "My love cooks the best marmalade of all times. And for more days the whole house is flavored in lemons and oranges. Organic fruit and much care and attention.
Per Anders is a painter and printmaker based in Denmark and France, exhibiting in both nations as well as Russia and Germany. "I have a degree in dental surgery (DDS), studying dentistry at the University of Aarhus, Denmark and the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. I've worked as both a dentist and an artist for a long time but about 10 years ago I skipped working as a dentist to concentrate on art as a professional artist.
Still Life #51
Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004), American
Formica, printed paper,
plastic and acrylic on canvas, 8' height, 1964
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wesselmann made a series of nudes and still lifes through his life, gaining fame and success, both commercial and artistic.
The Girls on the Bridge
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Norwegian
Woodcut printed in colors on cream wove paper,
20" x 25" (w x h), 1901
Sotheby's Auction Sold 221,000 GBP, $300,000 USD
The motif of Edvard Munch's The Girls on the Bridge has been widely recognized as one of his most celebrated, even from its first unveiling in 1901. As was often the case with the artist's successful works, Munch continued to revisit the composition throughout his career, producing a total of twelve known oil paintings between 1901 and 1935, as well as the woodcut offered here and a number of variations in lithograph, etching and another woodcut. Girl's on a bridge are in the background of his famous The Scream.
Two Trees with Orange
Foliage Against Blue Sky
Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944), Dutch
Christie's 1998 Auction
Sold 357,492 EUR (403,800 USD)
Source Wiki, Christie's and Robert P. Welsh (1998) edited:
In this painting the striking orange versus blue complementary color contrast is quite dramatic, and improvised brushwork equally so. All in all, this oil sketch represents one of the artist's most experimental paintings as he began to employ the rainbow palette of the French modernist tradition" - Robert P. Welsh, 1998
Piet was born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, in 1872 in Amersfoort, Netherlands. He has been described as "the world's greatest abstract geometrist". In 2014, the Tate Liverpool displayed the largest UK collection of Mondrian's works, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of his death. Mondrian and his Studios included a life-size reconstruction of his Paris studio. Charles Darwent, in The Guardian, wrote: "With its black floor and white walls hung with moveable panels of red, yellow and blue, the studio at Rue du Départ was not just a place for making Mondrians. It was a Mondrian - and a generator of Mondrians."
In the Northland
Tom Thomson (1877-1917), Canadian
Oil on canvas, 45" x 40" (w x h), winter 1915-16
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
A member of Canada's noted Group of Seven, Tom Thomson, first made small oil sketches on wood panels, of which there are around 400, and then he painted around fifty larger works on canvas. He considered most of his sketches to be complete works in themselves, not necessarily studies for larger works. He sketched this painting in detail in the fall of 1915, which is now in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and I was lucky enough to see it there. He painted the final painting (above) in the winter of 195-1916, which is now in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and I was lucky enough to see it there. The paintings stand as a fine example of sketch to final art transition. See the sketch HERE.
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