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Bill Sullivan
Beach Scene With Dog (Panoramic Oil Landscape Painting of Blue Ocean and Dog)

1998

About the Item

37 x 84 inches oil on canvas, unframed (thin wood stripping only) Contemporary landscape oil painting of the beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Deep blue tidal pools form in the foreground where a dog and it's walker pace the beach. About the artist: Sullivan started out in the 1960s as a New York City painter, and was an integral part of the New York scene. Sullivan’s works are in such collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, the New York Public library and the Albany Institute of History and Art. He has been in countless group exhibitions and locally, his works have been exhibited in a show curated by poet John Ashbery at the St. Charles Hotel in Hudson, and at Carrie Haddad Gallery on Warren Street. About the work by John Ashbery: With only a tinge of irony, Bill Sullivan makes new the vast spaces and swooning optimism of nineteeth-century Luminist painting. Reaffirming the contemplation of nature as its own reward, he also sets new tasks for painting and undertakes them with compelling eagerness. While there has been a tendency among some contemporary artists to present a revisionist view of the "great outdoors" of nineteenth-century landscape painters, Sullivan has no satirical agenda. After spending several years in South America amid the landscapes that attracted Frederic Edwin Church and Martin Heade, among others, he refined and strengthened this awesome imagery after returning to New York. A certain surreality floats though these vaporous visions of Columbia, though this may just be the result of Sullivan's careful documentation of scenes that looked unreal to begin with.
  • Creator:
    Bill Sullivan (1942, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1998
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 37 in (93.98 cm)Width: 84 in (213.36 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
  • Movement & Style:
    American Realist
  • Period:
    1990-1999
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Hudson, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2271390543
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