Sentences with phrase «paintings by family friends»

These were the 60s and early 70s, and three sisters were growing up completely surrounded by Abstract Expressionist paintings by family friends and frequent visitors like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Barnet Newman, but also by the Minimalist sculptures made by their father, Tony.

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House speaker Paul Ryan said: «Here lies America's pastor,» gesturing to Mr Graham's casket under the eye of the dome, surrounded by family, friends, politicians and a ring of paintings of the nation's founders.

Art for sale is either painted by adults in the growARTS program or is donated by their family or friends.

Among the many portraits of family, friends, neighbors, creatives, activists, and students by Alice Neel, are paintings of African Americans and other people of color she knew and admired in her neighborhood.

Maritime paintings by James E. Buttersworth, an inherited canvas by Mary Cassatt — a friend of the Stillman family — and a portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Charles Stuart round out the American Art highlights.

Inside awaits a glossy - paged scrapbook documenting Ms. Owens's life, work and community with snapshots, letters, sketches and emails; oral histories from friends, family and collaborators; and samplings of admired painting and writing by Mary Heilmann, Elizabeth Murray, bell hooks and David Foster Wallace.

By the time I became aware of her work she had become a minor celebrity — a relic of the depression era who had ignored Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimal and Conceptual art and was still painting traditional portraits of her family and friends, as well as art historians, critics, curators and artists.

An expansive, seven - hundred - page collection of Laura Owens's paintings paired with writings about the artist by colleagues, friends, and family.

Her paintings and drawings, often devoted to depictions of the human form, are typically culled from a vast archive of images collected by the artist, including art historical materials, mass media sources, and personal snapshots of friends and family.

Painting friends, family and passers - by with a sharp sense of detail and symbolism, Taylor's bright and balanced attention to all walks of life is partly informed by the decade he spent working, while also studying at CalArts, as a psychiatric assistant at the Camarillo State Hospital for the mentally ill.

The retrospective of paintings by Cornelia Foss, presented in Guild Hall's Woodhouse Gallery, includes works that emphasize the artist's relationship to the ecology of the East End and also incorporates ruminations on nature from New York's Central Park (in addition to a series of portraits of family and friends).

His latest show, «Kindly Bent to Ease Us,» at Mary Boone's gallery on the southern edge of the Upper East Side, is a riot of reproduction, repurposing and appropriation, with oil paintings of a friend's family Christmas card; of a panel discussion («Is the Universe a Simulation, Moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson»); and of works by Richard Prince, the sculptor Frank Benson and the artist Eric Drooker, who is known for his New Yorker covers.

EXHIBITION: Among the many portraits of family, friends, neighbors, creatives, activists, and students by Alice Neel, are paintings of African Americans and other people of color she knew and admired.

Influenced by films, billboard advertising, music, poetry, his circle of friends and family, Katz's work is characterized by his lifelong attempt to capture the present tense in paint.

«The painting was bought by the National Gallery in London in 1979, two years after Greta Moll's death, but Moll's family insists that the work was stolen and sold without permission by a family friend who took it to Switzerland shortly after the war for safekeeping.»

A Native Son: Paintings by West Fraser is the artist's first solo exhibition at Telfair Museums; it considers the landscapes, marine views, and city scenes for which Fraser is best known, as well as travel paintings created around the world and figure - based compositions depicting family, friends, and the artistPaintings by West Fraser is the artist's first solo exhibition at Telfair Museums; it considers the landscapes, marine views, and city scenes for which Fraser is best known, as well as travel paintings created around the world and figure - based compositions depicting family, friends, and the artistpaintings created around the world and figure - based compositions depicting family, friends, and the artist himself.

I started with the rough replacements (siding - windows - doors, begging help off family and friends) and finally moving into the more technical area of painting and texturing (by hand - if you've done it please post a tutorial, I've taken «character» to a whole new level.)