Jackie Battenfield

Headlong Falling

2014

This square landscape painting in oil on panel depicts a peaceful outdoor scene of a delicately painted field with white and pale lilac flowers, shrouded in mist, beneath a tree with olive green leaves, beautifully capturing the idyllic feel of a field of wildflowers and tall grass in mid-August. Signed, dated and titled on verso. The paintings of Thomas Sarrantonio seek to mediate between realms of external perception and internal reflection. They present themselves as meditations on nature and self. Choosing humble, often overlooked subject matter, such as the overgrown grasses at the edge of a field, he attempts to translate the dynamic processes of Nature into the stasis of physical matter on a painted surface. Small works are produced directly from Nature while large paintings are studio productions that utilize memory, experience, imagination and conceptual ideas to negotiate the terrain of contemporary painting. The paintings are offered to the viewer as templates to provoke active participation in the process of seeing and quiet contemplation of the act of consciousness. Thomas Sarrantonio studied Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia where his teachers included Wil Barnet and Sidney Goodman...

A peaceful outdoor scene of a delicately painted field with white and pale lilac flowers, shrouded in mist, beneath a tree with olive green leaves, beautifully capturing the idyllic ...

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A peaceful outdoor scene with a tree with dark green leaves above a delicately painted, green grassy field with white, pale periwinkle blue and lilac colored wildflowers, beautifully...

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A peaceful outdoor scene with a tree with dark green leaves above a delicately painted, green grassy field with pale violet and lilac colored wildflowers, beautifully capturing the i...

Denise Jones Adler's work is both personal and archetypical and seeks to memorialize a moment in time, the fragile nature of life, and the emotional impact of the past on the present...

Denise Jones Adler's work is both personal and archetypical and seeks to memorialize a moment in time, the fragile nature of life, and the emotional impact of the past on the present. Her portraits and dreamscapes pinpoint an unsettled view of the world, layered with a subtle sense of amusement and innate feminism. Adler is influenced by the Feminist Art Movement as well as Expressionism and the Dada movement. The collages of Hannah Hoch...

Initialed lower right in pencil, 'B.R.' for Barbara Rainforth (American, 20th century) and dated 1989. Additionally signed in pencil, verso, 'Barbara...

Signed lower center, 'Meiersdorff' for Leo Meiersdorff (German-American, 1934-1994) and painted circa 1985. Born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany, L...

An early twentieth-century oil landscape showing a view of a woman standing in the shade of a tree with a view in the distance of red-tiled houses above a blue-water bay. An atmosphe...

Signed lower right, 'A. W. Kerr' for Alexander Kerr (Australian, 1875-1950) and painted circa 1920. Inscribed on original frame, 'Menam River, Bangkok, ...