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Studio Light Suite
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…
Seascape
American painter and muralist William de Leftwich Dodge was born in Bedford, Virginia and spent most of his childhood life abroad in Europe where he studied painting in Paris and Berlin. Aligned with the American Impressionists, Dodge planned and…
Voyage of the Polaris
Maritime painter William Bedford was well known for his ship portraiture that employed painstaking precision, clarity and preoccupation with light. Intrigued with the challenge of new artistic frontiers through scientific exploration, he traveled to…
Cotton Picker
Born in Neosho, Missouri into a family of lawyers and politicians, Thomas Hart Benton became one of his state's most recognized painters. Finding the scenes of the common man most fascinating to paint, Benton was a pioneer of the regionalist art…
On the Tow-Path - A Halt
American Impressionist Theodore Robinson was born in Irasburg, Vermont and studied at the National Academy of Design, and later at the Art Students League. He made a number of visits to France and became a close friend of French Impressionist painter…
Flor de Consugra
View of the back
greenwork (aerial wall)
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…
Piper
Virginia illustrator, sculptor, and painter Robert Ryland Kearfott was born in Martinsville, Virginia. In his paintings, Kearfott was known for representing people both realistically, and with character. He was well known and earned such high praise…
Kinetograph #17
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…
Shackled Hands And Human Chains
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…
Daura with Cane and Brushes
Spanish born and Virginia based painter Pierre Daura was a prominent figure in the development of European modernism. He is known for his participation in the Cercle et Carre, which was a group of artists that promoted geometric construction rather…
Framed
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…
Becoming
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…
Jesus Tales
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.…
Convergence
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,…
Gray Matter
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…
Chicago Woman
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…
Portrait of Norah Gribble
This evocative piece by Sargent, one of the greatest portrait artists in American history, is among his largest full-length portraits. He won praise and critical acclaim for his looser approach to brushstrokes and ability to to reveal the psychology…
Swinging on the Gate
Genre painter John George Brown, known as J. G., was born in Durham, England and took drawing classes as a young man at the School of Design at Newcastle-on-Tyne while also being apprenticed as a glass worker. in 1853, Brown immigrated to America and…
Market Scene
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,…