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Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (formerly The Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Foundation) is a private Canadian charity that provides grants to young artists working in representational painting, sculpture, drawing and/or printmaking. Recipients must be studying or in the early stage of their career. History It was established in 1955 by the Montreal lawyer Charles Glass Greenshields, Q.C. (1883-1974), in memory of his mother, Elizabeth T. Glass, to help young artists train in traditional artistic methods. It was endowed by Mr. Greenshields and does not solicit or receive external funding. By the terms of its endowment, it is precluded from funding the pursuit of abstract or non-objective art. It received the Excellence in Fine Art Education Award from the Portrait Society of America in 2016 and the Gari Melchers Julius Garibaldi Melchers (August 11, 1860 – November 30, 1932) was an American artist. He was one of the leading American proponents of naturalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Representation (arts)
Representation is the use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else.Mitchell, W. 1995, "Representation", in F Lentricchia & T McLaughlin (eds), ''Critical Terms for Literary Study'', 2nd edn, University of Chicago Press, Chicago It is through representation that people organize the world and reality through the act of naming its elements. Signs are arranged in order to form semantic constructions and express relations. For many philosophers, both ancient and modern, man is regarded as the "representational animal" or '' animal symbolicum'', the creature whose distinct character is the creation and the manipulation of signs – things that "stand for" or "take the place of" something else. Representation has been associated with aesthetics (art) and semiotics (signs). Mitchell says "representation is an extremely elastic notion, which extends all the way from a stone representing a man to a novel representing the day in the life of several Dubliners". The t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Sébire
Gaston Sébire (August 18, 1920 - 2001) was a French painterBell, Quentin. of seascapes, landscapes, still lifes and flowers. Early life Sébire was born in Saint-Samson, Calvados, and grew up in Bretteville-sur-Odon. He began to paint around eighteen years old. He studied at the Maitrise Sainte Evode in Rouen. Career Sébire joined the Post Office, working at night and painting during the day. In 1951 Sébire moved to Paris, and one year later held his first exhibition in the city at the Galerie Visconti. In 1953, the Marquis of Cuevas asked him to design the costumes and scenery of ''L’Ange gris'', a ballet based on orchestrations of Claude Debussy's '' Suite bergamasque'' by André Caplet and Gustave Cloëz. During that same year Sébire won both the Prix de la Critique and the Prix Casa Valasquez, the latter giving him the opportunity to spend a year and a half working in Spain. Winning the Greenshields Foundation Prize in 1957, allowed him to continue this stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherryl Fountain
Cherryl Angela Fountain (born 1950) is an English still life, landscape and botanical artist. As the daughter of a gamekeeper and a resident of rural east Kent, much of her work reflects an environment of farming, botanical gardens and country life. Her work has been accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition on 28 occasions, and she has received bursaries and numerous awards in honour of her work. Early life and inspiration Cherryl Angela Fountain was born in 1950 in Lincolnshire, the daughter of gamekeeper Peter Robin Fountain and Ruby Margaret Elmer, who were both originally from Yorkshire. Her mother and her brother Julian have been referenced in her drawings and paintings. An early patron was Henry George Herbert Milles-Lade (1940–1996), the 5th Earl Sondes of Lees Court, and Stringmans Farm, Badlesmere, Kent, where Fountain's father Peter was head gamekeeper for many years, running "one of Britain's best shoots". The hunting background is reflected in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sorrell
Richard Sorrell (born 24 September 1948"Richard Sorrell" Debrett's (accessed May 28, 2012) in Thundersley, Essex) is a British artist working in oil acrylic paint, acrylic. He now lives in Cornwall.Penwith's 'new boy' on the block has impressive list of artistic credits This Is Cornwall, June 17, 2009 Biography Early life He was born in Thundersley in Essex to the historical draughtsman and painter Alan Sorrell (1904–1974)[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Beth McKenzie
Mary Beth McKenzie, N.A. (born 1946) is an American painter of contemporary figures in the realism style. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and currently resides in New York City where she teaches art at National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York. Her works of art are currently in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Butler Institute of American Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Art Students League of New York, and the National Academy of Design. In 2008 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchased two monotypes, ''Front Porch Restaurant'' and ''Diner (2nd stage)'', as well as a plate for ''Front Porch Restaurant'' and ''Diner (2nd stage)''. The Metropolitan Museum of Art permanent collection also includes thirteen monotypes from McKenzie's ''Circus'' as well as three oils and three sketch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunt Slonem
Hunt Slonem (born Hunt Slonim, July 18, 1951) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He is best known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings of butterflies, bunnies, and his tropical birds, often based on a personal aviary in which he has been keeping from 30 to over 100 live birds of various species. Slonem's works are included in many important museum collections all over the world; he is exhibiting regularly at both public and private venues, and he has received numerous honors and awards. Early life Hunt Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine, in an upper middle class family, the eldest of four children. His father was a Navy officer, and mother – a homemaker who spent much of her time doing volunteer work. As a result of his father's military career, Slonem's family moved around as frequently as every two to three years. He lived in Hawaii, Virginia, Connecticut, California and Washington State. Slonem's grandmother was a Tennessee native who married a Minnesota-born ama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawfurd Adamson
Crawfurd Adamson (born 1953) is a noted figurative artist from Edinburgh, although he has spent much of his career in the south of England. He has exhibited widely and has paintings in major collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the National Fleming Collection in London. He came to note in the 1980s and 90s, with extensive international shows including Monaco, Hong Kong and Spain. His work fell out of fashion during the late 90s, as the art market took a preference to conceptual works, rather than traditional media such as oil painting or pastels. Career Adamson graduated from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee in 1976. During the course of his degree, he won the Scottish Education Department's Travelling Scholarship. He won another scholarship immediately after his graduation. In 1977, he was granted a scholarship to work in France by the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, of Canada. Having exhibited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Sprung
Sharon Sprung is an American painter based in Brooklyn, New York. She is primarily known for her portrait paintings such as Congressional portraits of Jeannette Rankin and Patsy Mink, as well as former First Lady Michele Obama's official White House portrait. She is an instructor at the Art Students League of New York. Early life and education Sprung grew up in Glen Cove, New York. When she was 6, her father died and she did not speak for a year. She developed an early interest in portrait painting after all the pictures of him were destroyed and she had to rely on memory to remember his face. Her mother did not initially agree with her decision to pursue an art career, but in 1975 an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant enabled her to get a start. She began taking classes at the Art Student League in New York City, where she had classes with Daniel E. Greene and Harvey Dinnerstein, and briefly attended Cornell University but dropped out, unsatisfied with the art scene there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Penny
Evan Penny (born 1953, in South Africa), currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1978, Penny graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design and received a post-graduate degree in sculpture. Evan Penny makes sculptures of human forms out of silicone, pigment, hair and aluminium. His pieces range from the almost precisely lifelike, to the blurred or stretched. Penny says one of his interests "is to situate the sculptures perceptually between the way we might see each other in real time and space and the way we imagine our equivalent in a photographic representation." Though his creations are lifelike, Penny believes that "the real can't be represented or symbolized," leaving everything to be a representation. Early works Evan Penny’s early works include sculptures, as well as digital photographs. Penny sculptures go beyond the concept of photorealism in three-dimensional space. In his early figural sculptures, Penny stays true to an undistorted, classica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Neffson
Robert Neffson (born December 28, 1949) is an American painter known for his photorealistic street scenes of various cities around the world, museum interiors and for early still lifes and figure paintings. Life Neffson was born in New York City and grew up in Little Neck, New York. He was raised by a single father, after his mother, an artist, died when he was seven. He began attending classes at the Art Students League of New York in 1961, under the instruction of artists such as Lennart Anderson and Edwin Dickinson. As a student he copied old masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. His study of, among others, the painters Jan Vermeer, Thomas Eakins, Camille Corot, and Canaletto, developed his skills further. While attending the Boston University College of Fine Arts, from which he graduated '' cum laude'' in 1971, Neffson's work attracted the attention of his professors, including James Weeks and the abstract expressionist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Whitney (artist)
Richard Whitney (born 1946 in Vermont), is an American painter, author and educator known for his portrait work. '' Town & Country'' magazine has named him one of the top dozen portrait painters in America. ''Fine Art Connoisseur'' has called him one of "the giants of the field" of figurative painting. Whitney graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of New Hampshire in 1968. He studied with Sidney F. Willis and with the Boston painter R. H. Ives Gammell. Whitney has published Gammell's letters to him in the book ''Advice to a Young Artist''. Whitney's portraits and landscapes are included in over 800 collections and he has won over 50 regional and national awards. He received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of New Hampshire in 2015. Whitney is the author of the book ''Painting the Visual Impression'' which summarizes the basic principles of representational painting. He is also a co-author of the book ''Realism in Revolution: The Art of the Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Kenworthy
Jonathan Martin Kenworthy (born 23 June 1943 in Windermere, Westmorland) is a British sculptor and Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Biography Aged eleven Kenworthy attended the Royal College of Art in London under the tutelage of Professor John Skeaping, who later said of him ''keeping to his own ideas he is to my mind the best sculptor of animals to make an appearance this century.'' (Les sources de l'art – Les Animaux 1968) Kenworthy also went to Kingston Grammar School, dividing his time between school and the sculpture schools of the Royal College. He then spent two years at Wimbledon College of Art before entering the Royal Academy Schools, in 1961 for four years in the School of Sculpture. While at the Academy Schools he was awarded the Landseer Travelling Scholarship prize (twice), the President's Prize for Craftsmanship, Four silver medals for sculpture and the Gold Medal and Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture in 1965, he remains the youngest ever win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
