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The Art of Orange and Purple/Violet
Together - Visual Essay
1
As I Drove You Stretched
(Painted Sand SF #1P, Orange Sky)
Jennifer Guidi (1972- ), American
Sand, acrylic, and oil on linen, 232" x 76" (w x h), 2017
David Kordansky Gallery, Los angels, CA and New York, NY
Source: Wiki, edited
This color combination is a lesser used combination
by most artists, yet those who use it use it effectively.
As I Drove You Stretched
(Painted Sand SF #1P, Orange Sky)
Jennifer Guidi (1972- ), American
Sand, acrylic, and oil on linen, 232" x 76" (w x h), 2017
David Kordansky Gallery, Los angels, CA and New York, NY
Jennifer Guidi (1972- ) enrolled at Boston University, where she studied painting and printmaking. She primarily painted portraits, both of herself and of friends. After receiving her BFA in 1994, Guidi earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998. In 2001 she relocated to Los Angeles.
In 2005 Guidi was making representational paintings of landscapes, plants, and insects. During a 2012 trip to Marrakesh, she became fascinated by the rich patterning of Moroccan rugs, specifically the intricate stitching found on their rarely seen verso sides. She then began to paint from photographs of these woven surfaces, ultimately producing a series of abstract oil and sand paintings titled Field Paintings, a shift from representation to abstraction, as well as the introduction of sand into her work. In 2017, Guidi presented her first solo museum exhibition in Genoa, Italy, large-scale sand and acrylic paintings, which were painted in the seven colors of the light spectrum and occupied the frescoed interior walls of the neoclassical Italian villa. Guidi's most recent paintings feature mandala-like compositions.
Jennifer Guidi's paintings are in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Marciano Art Foundation, and the Rubell Family Collection.
Spring Series #1
Richard Mayhew (1924-2024), American
Watercolor, 15" x 11" (w x h), 1997
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Richard Mayhew (1924-2024) was an American landscape painter, illustrator, and arts educator, of Native and African American descent. His abstract, brightly colored landscapes are informed by his experiences as an African American/Native American and his interest in Jazz and the performing arts. He lived and worked in Soquel and Santa Cruz, California. For 14 years he taught at Pennsylvania State University, starting in 1977 and retiring in 1991. He taught art and/or interdisciplinary thinking at other schools around the United States, including Brooklyn Museum Art School (1963), Pratt Institute (1963), Art Students League of New York (1965), Smith College (1969), Hunter College (1971), California State University, East Bay (1974), San Jose State University (1975), Sonoma State University (1976), University of California, Santa Cruz (1992), and others.
Mayhew was a founding member of Spiral, a black painters' group in the 1960s New York, formed in 1963, after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, as a way for artists to discuss their experiences in the Civil Rights movement. His work is featured in various permanent collections including: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, De Young (museum), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Smithsonian Institution, among others. Mayhew died in 2024 at the age of 100 at his home in Soquel, California.
Le Parlement, coucher de soleil /
Houses of Parliament, sunset
Houses of Parliament series
Claude Monet (1840-1926), French
Oil on canvas, 36" x 32" (w x h), 1904
Kunsthaus Zurich art museum, Zurich, Switzerland
"I find London lovelier to paint each day."-Claude Monet. The Houses of Parliament series of 19 know paintings consists of views of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament. He began the first of these paintings on February 13, 1900. All of the series' paintings share the same viewpoint from Monet's window or a terrace at St Thomas' Hospital overlooking the Thames and are the same size, 36" x 32" (w x h), painted during different times of the day and weather conditions. By the time of the Houses of Parliament series, Monet had abandoned his earlier practice of completing a painting on the spot in front of the motif. He carried on refining the images back home in Giverny, France, and sent to London for photographs to help in this. This caused some adverse reaction, but Monet's reply was that his means of creating a work was his own business and it was up to the viewer to judge the final result. In 2004 one of these sold for $20,100,000 USD
Cabbagetown Winter
Zsolt Nagy (1937- ) Hungarian/Canadian
Oil on wood board, 8" x 10" (w x h),
Sold by Levis Fine Art Auctions, Appraisals & Art
Storage, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 16, 2020
Auction, $211 CAD ($154 USD)
Private Collection, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Zsolt Nagy is a Hungarian artist who was born in 1937. He painted this downtown Toronto scene of Cabbage town houses in the winter.
Orange Landscape with Building on River
Donald Hamilton Fraser RA (1929-2009), British
Oil on canvas, 30" x 20" (w x h), 1957
Sotheby's London 2020 auction sold, 3,528 GBP ($4,800 USD)
Donald Hamilton Fraser RA (1929-2009), was a British artist noted for his abstract landscape paintings. Fraser's painting style was characterized in the way he layered thick bright paint with a palette knife to produce a collage-like effect. The landscapes were still clearly identifiable while nonetheless forming abstract fields of color. Fraser was elected a fellow at the Royal College of Art in 1970, becoming an Honorary Fellow in 1984. In 1983 Fraser designed four commemorative stamps for England. He said, "An artist doesn't really choose what sort of pictures he paints. He paints what is there inside him. It is a sort of imperative."
My Country - (KUDAR14217)
Kudditji-Kngwarreye (1938-2017), Australian (native Aboriginal)
Acrylic on linen, 20" x 9" (w x h)
Price: $120,000 AUD ($78,000 USD)
Kate Owen Gallery, contemporary Aboriginal art
Rozelle, NSW, Australia
Kudditji-Kngwarreye, (1938-2017), also known as "Goob", was an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. While the early body of this work was admired by a few, not well received at the time, today, Kngwarreye's works have a national and international following. Like his skin sister Emily, he was one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of contemporary indigenous Australian art. In 2006, Kudditji was named one of the top 50 most collectible artists in Australia by Art Collector magazine. Like many of the desert artists, he mastered the use of acrylic paint on canvas. His use of color combined with simple shapes tell the stories of one of his inherited ancestral totems - the Emu Ancestors.
Burns Golden
Emily Mason (1932-2019), American
Oil on canvas, 45" x 60" (w x h), 2007
Private Collection
Born and raised in New York City, Emily Mason's art education began in the studio with her mother Alice Trumbull Mason, a founding member of the American Abstract Artists. Emily poured and blotted paint on primed canvases. In 1956, Mason was awarded a Fulbright grant to study in Italy. Before moving there, she met fellow painter Wolf Kahn, who later joined her in Venice. They married on March 2, 1957, at the municipal building near the Rialto Bridge, witnessed by strangers and friends. In late 1958, the couple returned to New York, where Mason their first daughter Cecily was born in 1959. In 1963, the family returned to Italy. Their second daughter Melany was born in Rome in 1964. In 1968, the Wolf and Emily bought a farm in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she's spend her summers painting. Emily explained: "It is important to balance city life with experiencing nature. Winter in the city is the time for the fermentation of ideas. Summer is my time to carry them out."
The Purple Dress
William Glackens (1870-1938), American
Oil on canvas, 30" x 26" (w x h), 1908-1910
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Gift of Ann and Tom Cousins
William James Glackens (1870-1938) was an American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School, which rejected the formal boundaries of artistic beauty laid down by the conservative National Academy of Design. He is also known for his work in helping Albert C. Barnes to acquire the European paintings that form the nucleus of the famed Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, which includes 71 works of his art. His dark-hued, vibrantly painted street scenes and depictions of daily life in pre-WW I New York and Paris first established his reputation as a major artist. His later work was brighter in tone and showed the strong influence of Renoir. During much of his career as a painter, Glackens also worked as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines in Philadelphia and New York City. The largest collection of Glackens' art has been housed since 2001 at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, where an entire wing is dedicated to his work; the museum holds approximately 500 Glackens paintings in its permanent collection.
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