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Sunset at Kuerner's Farm, 2022
Watercolor on Paper
14 x 11
Watercolor on Paper
“Painting this iconic farmhouse was a journey through memory and emotion. I had come to know this place through the book Wyeth at Kuerners by Betsy Wyeth. In 1976, I went from a small town in Illinois to art school in New York City. My head was spinning with color theory and life drawing classes. I attended the ‘Two Worlds of Wyeth’ show at the Met. I found myself torn by my visceral response to Wyeth’s work, and the prevailing disdain for realism in the NYC art scene at that time. Home on summer break, I acquired the Wyeth book at the Art Institute of Chicago. I vividly remember sitting on the steps turning the pages...and feeling my world shift. It seemed that it was valid to simply paint your world, with no long-winded explanations of sad yellow squares – just sensitive observation.
“I would visit the Kuerner Farm in the early 80’s – then inaccessible to the public. Although viewing it from afar, I felt connected to that artistic spirit. Then some 40 years later, there I was, able to enter that world. I put my head down and put to work all I had learned in the years between.”
14 x 11
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Sunset at Kuerner's Farm, 2022
Watercolor on Paper
14 x 11
“Painting this iconic farmhouse was a journey through memory and emotion. I had come to know this place through the book Wyeth at Kuerners by Betsy Wyeth. In 1976, I went from a small town in Illinois to art school in New York City. My head was spinning with color theory and life drawing classes. I attended the ‘Two Worlds of Wyeth’ show at the Met. I found myself torn by my visceral response to Wyeth’s work, and the prevailing disdain for realism in the NYC art scene at that time. Home on summer break, I acquired the Wyeth book at the Art Institute of Chicago. I vividly remember sitting on the steps turning the pages...and feeling my world shift. It seemed that it was valid to simply paint your world, with no long-winded explanations of sad yellow squares – just sensitive observation.
“I would visit the Kuerner Farm in the early 80’s – then inaccessible to the public. Although viewing it from afar, I felt connected to that artistic spirit. Then some 40 years later, there I was, able to enter that world. I put my head down and put to work all I had learned in the years between.”
14 x 11
Watercolor on Paper
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Sunset at Kuerner's Farm, 2022
Watercolor on Paper
14 x 11
Oil on Linen Mounted on Cradled Panel
25 x 30
“Painting this iconic farmhouse was a journey through memory and emotion. I had come to know this place through the book Wyeth at Kuerners by Betsy Wyeth. In 1976, I went from a small town in Illinois to art school in New York City. My head was spinning with color theory and life drawing classes. I attended the ‘Two Worlds of Wyeth’ show at the Met. I found myself torn by my visceral response to Wyeth’s work, and the prevailing disdain for realism in the NYC art scene at that time. Home on summer break, I acquired the Wyeth book at the Art Institute of Chicago. I vividly remember sitting on the steps turning the pages...and feeling my world shift. It seemed that it was valid to simply paint your world, with no long-winded explanations of sad yellow squares – just sensitive observation.
“I would visit the Kuerner Farm in the early 80’s – then inaccessible to the public. Although viewing it from afar, I felt connected to that artistic spirit. Then some 40 years later, there I was, able to enter that world. I put my head down and put to work all I had learned in the years between.”