Market Scene
Virginia
Art
Austrian Hans Hamza first received his training from his father Johan, who taught him the meticulously detailed technique seen in this painting. It is typical of Hamza’s production, in that it involves an urban outdoor scene and is small in format, allowing the viewer to explore the many faithfully rendered vignettes.
Johan Hamza (Austrian, 1850-1927)
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Flor de Consugra
Virginia
Art
View of the back
Steve Bickley (American, Born 1953)
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Dancer
Virginia
Art
Based in Roanoke, Virginia Betty Branch earned both her BA and MA in Studio Art from Hollins University. her work has been the focus of numerous solo and international exhibitions. Over a thirty-year period, Branch has focused on the female form and has defined female rites of passage in both traditional terra cotta, earthware, and straw. she looks to impressive Cycladic Greek fertility goddesses and other sources of feminine genesis to form complex and substantial sculptural works that exude power and energy. Branch's female forms vacillate between the lush and the lissome. In Dancer, Branch captures the fluid cyclical motion of a woman's body captured in mid-dance, to the point of abstraction.
Betty Branch (American, Born 1934)
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Kinetograph #17
Virginia
Art
Abstract painter and teacher Richard Irving Bowman was known for both his idiosyncratic style and employing fluorescent paint. He received his BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from the University of Iowa. Bowman taught painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg and Stanford University. He was a popular figure in the San Francisco abstract expressionist and beat scenes.
Richard Irving Bowman (American, 1918-2001)
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[Hank Williams] Grace And Violence...
Virginia
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Roanoke based artist, curator, and educator Brian Sieveking blurs the boundaries between history, mythology and pop culture. Sieveking comments, "My work draws upon my lifelong interest in history, popular culture, the odd and the arcane particularly as it relates to the mythology of the South." [Hank Williams] Grace And Violence is part of a large series in which the artist created cryptic and iconic images in a style similar to commercial art to emphasize culture's commodification of Southern symbols. Sieveking's work is held in public and private collections in 14 states and seven countries. He is a long time collector and researcher of southern folk art and has curated, lectured and written extensively on the subject.
Brian Sieveking (American, Born 1964)
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Chicago Woman
Virginia
Art
Richmond based painter, teacher and writer Torres was best known for his large scale stone carved sculptures. focusing primarily on the human form, Torres' work, according to Richmond based collector, Jack Blanton, harkened back to classical Greek sculpture, "Viewing his sculpture is like seeing ruins from Mesopotamia," said Blanton. "Salvaged classical ruins--that was a reference point. He always let the stone speak to him to determine what he would carve from it."
John Torres, Jr (American, Unknown-2001)
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Ancestral Altar # 14
Virginia
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Born in Vietnam in 1977, two years after the fall of Saigon, Danh and his family left their home in 1979 and immigrated to the United States in the early 1980s. The experience of displacement and his eventual trip back to his country of birth inspired the artist to create work exploring his homeland's history using found and natural materials. By inventing a process known as chlorophyll painting, Danh found the perfect metaphor to honor the thousands of people murdered by the Khmer Rouge regime. Printed on a variety of tropical plants, Danh's portraits of the victims are permanently imprinted into the matrix of the leave's structure.
Binh Danh (Vietnamese, Born 1977)
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Apartment 'C'
Virginia
Art
Clifton was born in Norfolk, Virginia and was raised in Newport News. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Known for his enigmatic portraits and landscapes, Clifton exhibited throughout Virginia and had a career retrospective at the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center in Hampton, Virginia that featured more than 50 drawings and paintings from his 60-year career.
Jack Clifton (American, 1912-1990)
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Studio Light Suite
Virginia
Art
Beloved Hollins University Professor emeritus and artist Bill White is a consummate artist whose paintings imply monumentality, regardless of their actual size. It's all about the studio coupled with the plein air experience, the physicality of the paint and the act of painting. In Studio Light Suite, White captures the trail of shifting light and its residual shadows over a myriad of details present in twelve individual paintings grouped in a grid. In documenting the actual passage of time as translated by light, the paintings are a bittersweet homage to the notion of memento mori, reminding us of life's impermanence.
William G. White (American, Born 1963)
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Shackled Hands And Human Chains
Virginia
Art
African American artist Purvis Young was born and lived in the Overtown neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Using a blend of collage, painting and found objects, the self taught artist focused on the experience of African Americans in the south including social issues and slavery. His work was shown in major museums throughout the United States and in 2008 collectors Don and Mera Rubell donated over one hundred of Young's work to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.
Purvis Young (American, 1943-2010)
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Gray Matter
Virginia
Art
Karen Holzberg has always been fascinated with the human form and the implicit drama of Italian renaissance art. Holzberg's works such as Gray Matter depict a three quarter view of a young man gazing upward as if toward Heaven, highlighting the strength and vulnerability of the human body.
Karen Holzberg (American, Born 1963)
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2002.037
Becoming
Virginia
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Abstract painter Lois Bartlett Tracy was well known for her use of color. Hailed as a visionary artist , Tracy, whose work had been shown in exhibitions throughout the country, founded an artist colony in Englewood, Florida in the 1960s and taught college-level art courses at several universities. Her work was loosely inspired by the Florida landscape and was characterized by bright colors and swirling movement.
Lois Bartlett Tracy (American, 1901-2008)
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greenwork (aerial wall)
Virginia
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Rosemary Laing's photographs are deeply theatrical and hover between fantasy and reality. In this work, she renders the seemingly impossible possible by exclusively using digital manipulation. In greenwork (aerial wall), Laing explores the theme of visual perception by depicting a distorted wall of intense blurred green that bisects an immense tree canopy. As her source material, Laing references a black and white photograph, View from Nimbin Rocks taken by Australian photographer Peter Elliston that she then digitizes, hyper-saturated with color, and distorts to create the illusion of a time warp.
Rosemary Laing (Australian, Born 1959)
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Jesus Tales
Virginia
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A nondenominational evangelical preacher, Leroy Almon, Sr. was an American folk artist who specialized in woodcarving. Born in Tallapoosa, Georgia in 1938, Almon apprenticed to the woodcarving artist Elijah Pierce, and they became lifelong friends. Using hand chisels and pocketknives to carve his image in bas-relief and then painting them, Almon depicted images from the Bible, as well as the temptations of contemporary life as well as historical and political inspired images.
Leroy Almon, Sr. (American, 1938-1997)
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Circle of Power/Matt X
Virginia
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Self-taught artist Hugo Sperger was born in Italy and afterwards his family resettles in upstate New York. After a stint in the U. S. Army, Sperger lived in rural Kentucky. A prolific artist, Sperger created hundreds of paintings for over 40 years. Focusing on biblical scenes, his work gained attention after his death and was subsequently included in several exhibitions.
Hugo Sperger (American, Born Italy, 1922-1966)
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Curtsey
Virginia
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Roanoke native Antoinette Hale paints scenes derived from her personal experiences and observations of Southwestern Virginia life. Primarily focusing on the human figure, she connotes it to "seeing the person come to life in front of me." Using photographs taken by herself or occasionally from published sources, she draws grids on the original photograph and transcribes the grid to a canvas, square by square. At some point in this process, Hale begins to disengage from the photographic model, subtly distorting her subjects for compositional unity and psychological effect. The Curtsey documents a coming-of-rite known as the Debutante Ball, an annual cotillion held since 1952.
E. Antoinette Hale (American, Contemporary)
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Untitled
Virginia
Art
Artist and teacher Gerald (Gerry) Donato earned his MA and BS degrees from Northern Illinois University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A long-term professor of studio art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Donato employed visual references taken from popular culture from New York's Bowery, Italy, and Paris and the Richmond art scene to create his paintings. His appropriation of an early Disney precursor to Mickey Mouse, known as "Steamboat Willie" renamed "Mr. Man" by Donato, pops up routinely, as seen in Untitled. Rendered in simple gestures, often, Mr. Man is paired with a mysterious feminine muse the artist calls "Moon-face."
Gerald Donato (American, 1941-2010)
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Convergence
Virginia
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Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, painter Katherine Porter trained at Colorado College and Boston university , ultimately receiving an honorary doctorate from Colby College. Porter seeks, through the use of strong geometric shapes and contrasting colors, to give form to ideas, particularly of change and conflict. This painting's title word "convergence" refers to movement of several elements into one.
Katherine Porter (American, Born 1941)
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Framed
Virginia
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Norman Rockwell was a keen observer and storyteller. Between 1916 and 1963, Rockwell painted 323 paintings that were reproduced on the cover of the popular magazine, Saturday Evening Post. Framed appeared on the cover on March 2, 1946. It is one of three Post cover paintings that feature artworks reacting to actions outside of their frames. Framed was acquired by the Taubman Museum of Art in 2003 with the Horace G. Fralin Charitable trust to develop an important collection of American Art by artists working from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s. Those works became the core of the Horace G. and Ann H. Fralin Center for American Art at the museum.
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)
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Leeds Jug
Virginia
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Considered one of the most successful still life genre painters of his time, Emil Carlsen immigrated to the united States from Denmark. He studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Copenhagen and the Chicago Academy of Design and at the California School of Design. Called an "American Chardin" due to the similarity of his painting technique to 18th century famous french still life painter Jean-Baptiste-SimeonChardin, Carlsen's paintings were sought after due to his delicate brushwork and manipulation of light.
Emil Carlsen (Danish, 1853-1932)
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