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Jane, 2023
Oil on Linen
24 x 30
Oil on Linen
“If you suspect there is something old school about Jane, you are correct. It’s not just the white dress – as we worked, painting in a historic garden beside two bristling stone lions, Jane recalled lines from Charlotte Brontë: ‘I am no bird, and no net ensnares me…’ and Yeats: ‘Turning and turning in the widening gyre…’ The straw hat topped it off, like a bottle of champagne on an empty stomach. It was all a little too much – and then she turned her head.
“We had explored many picturesque and beautiful poses, but the off script, leftward glance and tension in her brow and hands exposed an edge that cut the 19th century tropes with a refreshing acidity.
“While the luminous, atmospheric paintings of Frank Benson and the Boston School tradition shaped the aesthetic ideas and execution of this painting, my studies at RISD and selective taste for modernity informed design and handling choices along the way. Jane is about light and color, gesture and brushstrokes. It is also about a modern woman on a June morning, clutching her hat with an air of anxious defiance.”
24 x 30
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Jane, 2023
Oil on Linen
24 x 30
“If you suspect there is something old school about Jane, you are correct. It’s not just the white dress – as we worked, painting in a historic garden beside two bristling stone lions, Jane recalled lines from Charlotte Brontë: ‘I am no bird, and no net ensnares me…’ and Yeats: ‘Turning and turning in the widening gyre…’ The straw hat topped it off, like a bottle of champagne on an empty stomach. It was all a little too much – and then she turned her head.
“We had explored many picturesque and beautiful poses, but the off script, leftward glance and tension in her brow and hands exposed an edge that cut the 19th century tropes with a refreshing acidity.
“While the luminous, atmospheric paintings of Frank Benson and the Boston School tradition shaped the aesthetic ideas and execution of this painting, my studies at RISD and selective taste for modernity informed design and handling choices along the way. Jane is about light and color, gesture and brushstrokes. It is also about a modern woman on a June morning, clutching her hat with an air of anxious defiance.”
24 x 30
Oil on Linen
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Jane, 2023
Oil on Linen
24 x 30
Oil on Linen Mounted on Cradled Panel
25 x 30
“If you suspect there is something old school about Jane, you are correct. It’s not just the white dress – as we worked, painting in a historic garden beside two bristling stone lions, Jane recalled lines from Charlotte Brontë: ‘I am no bird, and no net ensnares me…’ and Yeats: ‘Turning and turning in the widening gyre…’ The straw hat topped it off, like a bottle of champagne on an empty stomach. It was all a little too much – and then she turned her head.
“We had explored many picturesque and beautiful poses, but the off script, leftward glance and tension in her brow and hands exposed an edge that cut the 19th century tropes with a refreshing acidity.
“While the luminous, atmospheric paintings of Frank Benson and the Boston School tradition shaped the aesthetic ideas and execution of this painting, my studies at RISD and selective taste for modernity informed design and handling choices along the way. Jane is about light and color, gesture and brushstrokes. It is also about a modern woman on a June morning, clutching her hat with an air of anxious defiance.”