Brimfield's Heart-O-The-Mart at Art Tent on September 9
Carl Ashby, painter and printmaker, was born in Hurley, New Mexico on March 2, 1914. He worked as an artist for the Civilian Conservation Corps before attending the University of Utah, where he received his degree in 1937. He relocated to New York City shortly thereafter and married artist Estelle Grey in 1938. Ashby worked at Atelier 17 sometime between the years 1940 and 1955, and earned his MA degree from New York University in 1959. He taught at the Parsons Division of the New School at New York University for twenty-five years beginning in 1970. During his career, Ashby studied with artists Hans Hofmann, George Grosz and Morris Kantor. His works and papers are included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College.
Downeast Art & Antiques Show on August 12-15
Laurence Sisson (1928-2015)
Maine Coast
oil on board
30 x 22 inches
The Newport Show on July 25 & 26
Patrick George (1923-2016)
Garden Gateway, 1994-98
oil on panel
13 3/4 x 40 inches
Acquired
from a William Hodgins designed home in East Hampton, NY. Hodgins
acquired it for his client directly from Browse & Darby, George's
longtime dealer in London. Patrick George was a landscape and figure
painter of distilled emotion and intelligence. A modest man of
considered opinions and dry humour, he preferred to paint at his Suffolk
home rather than court the art establishment, and his visits to London
were mostly made in order either to teach or to see exhibitions of other
artists’ work. He eschewed self-promotion, yet his paintings are much
cherished by a growing band of admirers who appreciate the formal
toughness, unusual structures and sensitive colours of his subtle
approach. Chief among his artist supporters was Frank Auerbach, who has
described George’s painting as having “the tension of a tightrope
walker. I find it engrossing and admirable.” George was at the center of
20th century British painting; a student and then colleague of William
Coldstream at the Slade, a contemporary of Lucian Freud and a mentor of
Euan Uglow. He was celebrated for his devotion to the particularity of
things, especially trees, and English light and atmosphere, and his
ability to render all this most beautifully and memorably into the
language of paint. In later years he read Montaigne to help prepare
himself for death, but lost none of his relish for life, continuing to
paint and regularly enjoying roast lamb, good wine and whisky. His later
work was looser in application but none the less effective for this.
