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Bill Sullivan Art

American, b. 1942

Bill Sullivan is an American artist whose beautiful prints show that he is making them with a sense of style and purpose. Sullivan is one of a modern breed of artists whose work talks to us as well. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and died in Albany, New York. He attended Silvermine College and earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver, Jane Freilicher, John Button and Rudy Burckhardt. He also studied privately with Josef and Annie Albers.

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Artist: Bill Sullivan
Flowers
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Bill Sullivan Title: Flowers Medium: Serigraph Signed: Hand Signed Edition: Edition of 200 Measurements: 22" x 30" Condition: Excellent. This piece has been stored in a ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Bill Sullivan Art

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Screen

Hudson River, Realist Screenprint by Bill Sullivan
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Long Island City, NY
Hudson - Animar Valley Bill Sullivan, American (1942) Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 200 Size: 38 x 50 in. (96.52 x 127 cm)
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1980s American Realist Bill Sullivan Art

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Screen

Monserrate and Guadalupe (Oil Landscape of Green Mountains in South America)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
31 x 61 x 1 inches oil on canvas, framed with thin black wood stripping This is a contemporary landscape painting of Guadalupe Hill, a 3,317-metre (10,883 ft) high hill...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Art

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Canvas, Oil

Beach Scene With Dog (Panoramic Oil Landscape Painting of Blue Ocean and Dog)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
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 for...
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1990s American Realist Bill Sullivan Art

Weehawken, Milogna (Framed 1970's Hand Colored Print of New Jersey Sunset)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
Hand colored screen print of a colorful New Jersey sunset made in 1977 by Bill Sullivan Signed, bottom left 43 x 31 inches in natural wood frame This 1970's hand colored landscape print...
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1970s Modern Bill Sullivan Art

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Screen

Cotopaxi (Contemporary Oil Landscape Painting of Volcano in Columbia)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
11 x 25 inches oil on canvas, unframed (thin wood stripping only) Cotopaxi is the highest active volcano in the world located south of Quito in Ecuador. This very contemporary ...
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1990s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Art

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Canvas, Oil

Pablo's View (Medellin): 1970's Colombian Landscape Painting on Canvas
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
1970's landscape painting on canvas of a view in Medellin, Colombia Calming atmospheric yellow, blue, and green palette Made in 1979 by Bill Sullivan oil on canvas, unframed 24 x 40 inches signed, lower right This modern landscape painting was made by Hudson Valley based artist, Bill Sullivan, in 1979. Interested in the style of the Hudson River School painters such as Frederic Church and Thomas Cole, Sullivan sought to adapt traditional landscapes with a modern lens. During the 1970's and 80's, Sullivan traveled in the footsteps of Frederic Church, capturing the same scenes the late artist made famous 100 years prior. Here Sullivan paints a picturesque scene overlooking a mountain range in Medellin, Colombia. Titled 'Pablo's View', Sullivan perhaps envisioned Pablo Escobar...
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1970s Modern Bill Sullivan Art

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Canvas, Oil

Study For Cole Porter Paintings (Oil Painting of City Skyline w/ Sailboat)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
Study For Cole Porter Paintings (Oil Painting of City Skyline w/ Sailboat) by Bill Sullivan 12 x 20 inches oil on canvas, framed with thin blonde ...
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1980s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Art

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Canvas, Oil

Hudson River, Frozen (Minimal Winter Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
Hudson River, Frozen (Minimal Winter Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas) 36.6 x 60.5 inches oil on canvas, unframed (thin wood stripping only) Contemporary Hudson River winter landsca...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Art

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Canvas, Oil

Guadalupe (Landscape Oil Painting of Guadalupe Statue in Mountainous Colombia)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
16 x 23 inches $2,500 oil on canvas Modern, horizontal landscape oil painting of a statue of the Lady of Guadalupe on a high mountain in Colombia. The oil painting is very color...
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1980s Modern Bill Sullivan Art

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Canvas, Oil

Athens from Hudson in Winter (Winter Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
36 x 48 inches oil on canvas, unframed (thin wood stripping only) Contemporary Hudson River winter landscape oil painting, horizontally oriented. A snowy, iced over river is lined ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Art

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Canvas, Oil

Monserrate (Contemporary Landscape Painting of a Mountain in Columbia)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary landscape painting of Monserrate in South America, neutral palette with light white mist over a dark green mountain 36 x 60 inches oil on canvas, unframed (thin wood stripping only) Painting is wired on the back for installation Magnificent contemporary landscape painting of "Monserrate", a mountain near Bogota in Columbia that rises 3.152 meters above sea level. All downtown Bogotá, south Bogotá and some sections of the north of the city are visible facing west, making it a popular destination for watching the sun set over the city. Bill Sullivan expertly paints wispy clouds that settle down around the mountain's peak. 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. About the Artist: Sullivan attended Silvermine College and earned an M.F.A. from The University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver, Jane Freilicher, John Button and Rudy Burckhardt. He also studied privately with Josef and Annie Albers. In the late 1960s, Sullivan joined Bowery Gallery, an artist-run gallery that was dedicatedto figurative art. Later, when the Alliance of Figurative Artists was starting, Sullivan organized weekly panels and discussions at The Educational Alliance. Sullivan's first solo show at Bowery Gallery in 1970 included paintings depicting people, New York cityscapes and still lifes. After this show, Sullivan developed an interest in landscape painting. New York City, the Hudson River and Manhattan's West Side highway became his main subjects. He had several shows of these paintings at Bowery Gallery and continued to paint the Hudson River until the end of his life. At one of these shows he met art collector G. W. Einstein, who became his friend and represented him for many years. Sullivan had his first solo show at G. W. Einstein Company in 1978. In 1977, Sullivan met Colombian writer Jaime Manrique; they traveled to Colombia, where Bill painted the places that Frederick Edwin Church and Martin Johnson Heade had painted in the 1850s. In Colombia he had a solo show in the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art in 1978. The years following his return from South America was the period when Sullivan's work was most in display in New York City. Sullivan remained in New York City until 2001 where he had several solo shows. In 2002, he settled in Hudson, New York, where his two nineteenth-century heroes, Frederick Church and Sanford Robinson Gifford, had lived. He painted many of the sites Church and Gifford rendered on canvas. Resume: 2009 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2008 BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY 2007 BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY 2006 The Autobiography of Bill Sullivan: A Landscape Retrospective, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 2005 Roxbury Art Group, Roxbury, NY Hudson River Views, Bonnie Andretta Fine Arts, Hudson, NY 2004 Indelible, Gallery 2/20, New York, NY Workshop Exhibition, Dannette Koke Fine Art, New York, NY 2003 The Gallery at The St. Charles, Hudson, NY Paintings of South America, Hudson, NY Painted City, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Juried Art Show, Columbian Council on the Arts, Hudson, NY Made In Hudson, Artwalk, Hudson, NY 2002 Musselman Gallery, Hudson, NY 2001 HHA Gallery, Riverdale, NY The Landscape That Changed America, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 1999 Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA Greenwoods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK 1998 Suitcase Will Travel, Conductor’s Gallery, London, UK 1997 House/Scene, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany Selected Prints, Atrium Gallery, Long Island City, NY Contemporary Selections, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 1996 Uptown Gallery, New York, NY Eight Realists: Realism Then and Now, K & E Gallery, New York, NY Recent Acquisitions, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY Pencilvanians Drawn to New York, Pennsylvania Alumni Exhibition, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY New Acquisitions, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY 1995 Five Aspects of American Landscape Painting, Creiger Dane Gallery, Boston, MA New York City Views, Owen Gallery, New York, NY Increased Visibility, Leslie-Lohman Gallery, New York, NY American Realism, Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan Group Show, G.W. Einstein Co., New York, NY 1994 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY Pride in Our Diversity, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY Paint Props and Process, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY 1993 Celebration, G.W. Einstein Co, Inc., New York, NY Far Away Places Artists Who Travel, SSC&B Lintas Worldwide, New York, NY Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY Art & Fantasy, Amos Eno Gallery and The Puck Building, New York, NY Organization of Independent Artists Benefit, Brook Alexander Gallery, New York, NY 19th & 20th Century Works of Art, Friends of OLANA Benefit, Hudson, NY 1992 New York Icons, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York, NY Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY Shanti Foundation Benefit Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Contemporary American Landscape, World Art Collection in conjunction with Quatre Pieces Gallery, Yokohoma, Japan The Scarf, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY 1991 Urban Icons, Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, NY City Edge of Night, The Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA Spirit of Place Dada Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan Group Show, Tatistchieff, Santa Monica, CA Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY American Images, Crane Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; World Art Collection, Yokohama, Japan; Daimon Art Gallery, Sapparo, Japan; Beersheba Gallery, Osaka, Japan 1990 Susan Schreiber Gallery, New York, NY Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Plein Air Painting: Capturing the Moment, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Land/Sea/Air, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD Penn Prints: 30 Years of Printmaking at the University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA A Little Night Music...
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1970s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Art

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Canvas, Oil

El Dorado, Guatavita (Modern Landscape Oil Painting of Lake Guatavita, Colombia)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
11 x 25.5 inches $2,500 oil on canvas, unframed Modern, horizontal landscape oil painting of Lake Guatavita in Colombia which inspired the lege...
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1980s Modern Bill Sullivan Art

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Canvas, Oil

Cotopaxi II (Modern Landscape Oil Painting of Sunset Over Volcano in Andes)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
49 x 79 inches framed, thin black painted wood frame 48.5 x 77.5 inches unframed oil on canvas $9,000 Modern, horizontal landscape oil painting of a large volcano, Cotopaxi, in...
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1980s Modern Bill Sullivan Art

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Canvas, Oil

Cayembe (Contemporary Landscape Oil Painting of Volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
36 x 72 inches with thin wood frame $8,500 Modern, horizontal landscape oil painting of a large volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes. The oil painting is very colorful with highly sat...
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1980s Modern Bill Sullivan Art

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Canvas, Oil

Colombian Gold
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Bill Sullivan Title: Colombian Gold Medium: Lithograph Signed: Hand Signed Edition: Edition of 200 Measurements: 30" x 22.5" Condition: Exc...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Bill Sullivan Art

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Lithograph

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He had several shows of these paintings at Bowery Gallery and continued to paint the Hudson River until the end of his life. At one of these shows he met art collector G. W. Einstein, who became his friend and represented him for many years. Sullivan had his first solo show at G. W. Einstein Company in 1978. In 1977, Sullivan met Colombian writer Jaime Manrique; they traveled to Colombia, where Bill painted the places that Frederick Edwin Church and Martin Johnson Heade had painted in the 1850s. In Colombia he had a solo show in the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art in 1978. The years following his return from South America was the period when Sullivan's work was most in display in New York City. Sullivan remained in New York City until 2001 where he had several solo shows. In 2002, he settled in Hudson, New York, where his two nineteenth-century heroes, Frederick Church and Sanford Robinson Gifford, had lived. He painted many of the sites Church and Gifford rendered on canvas. 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View of Cotopaxi (Contemporary Oil Landscape Painting of Blue Sky & Volcano)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Frederic Edwin Church inspired landscape painting of a moonlit volcano with blue sky in the Andes Mountains Made in 1982 by Bill Sullivan oil on canvas, unframed 24 x 38 inches This contemporary landscape painting was made by Hudson Valley based artist, Bill Sullivan, in 1985. Interested in the style of the Hudson River School painters such as Frederic Church and Thomas Cole, Sullivan sought to adapt traditional landscapes with a modern lens. During the 1980's, the artist traveled in the footsteps of Frederic Church throughout South America, capturing the same scenes the late artist made famous 100 years prior. In this modern rendition of 'View of Cotopaxi', the artist captures a luminous moonlit sky over a large volcano in the Andes Mountains. The full moon's light radiates through the blue cloudy sky onto the white snow capped volcano. In the foreground, a group of hikers and a train are dwarfed by the volcano's massive scale in the background. The painting is currently unframed and has provenance labels on the back. About the artist's 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. About the Artist: Sullivan attended Silvermine College and earned an M.F.A. from The University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver, Jane Freilicher, John Button and Rudy Burckhardt. He also studied privately with Josef and Annie Albers. In the late 1960s, Sullivan joined Bowery Gallery, an artist-run gallery that was dedicatedto figurative art. Later, when the Alliance of Figurative Artists was starting, Sullivan organized weekly panels and discussions at The Educational Alliance. Sullivan's first solo show at Bowery Gallery in 1970 included paintings depicting people, New York cityscapes and still lifes. After this show, Sullivan developed an interest in landscape painting. New York City, the Hudson River and Manhattan's West Side highway became his main subjects. He had several shows of these paintings at Bowery Gallery and continued to paint the Hudson River until the end of his life. At one of these shows he met art collector G. W. Einstein, who became his friend and represented him for many years. Sullivan had his first solo show at G. W. Einstein Company in 1978. In 1977, Sullivan met Colombian writer Jaime Manrique; they traveled to Colombia, where Bill painted the places that Frederick Edwin Church and Martin Johnson Heade had painted in the 1850s. In Colombia he had a solo show in the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art in 1978. The years following his return from South America was the period when Sullivan's work was most in display in New York City. Sullivan remained in New York City until 2001 where he had several solo shows. In 2002, he settled in Hudson, New York, where his two nineteenth-century heroes, Frederick Church and Sanford Robinson Gifford, had lived. He painted many of the sites Church and Gifford rendered on canvas. Resume: 2009 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2008 BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY 2007 BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY 2006 The Autobiography of Bill Sullivan: A Landscape Retrospective, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 2005 Roxbury Art Group, Roxbury, NY Hudson River Views, Bonnie Andretta Fine Arts, Hudson, NY 2004 Indelible, Gallery 2/20, New York, NY Workshop Exhibition, Dannette Koke Fine Art, New York, NY 2003 The Gallery at The St. Charles, Hudson, NY Paintings of South America, Hudson, NY Painted City, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Juried Art Show, Columbian Council on the Arts, Hudson, NY Made In Hudson, Artwalk, Hudson, NY 2002 Musselman Gallery, Hudson, NY 2001 HHA Gallery, Riverdale, NY The Landscape That Changed America, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 1999 Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA Greenwoods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK 1998 Suitcase Will Travel, Conductor’s Gallery, London, UK 1997 House/Scene, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany Selected Prints, Atrium Gallery, Long Island City, NY Contemporary Selections, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 1996 Uptown Gallery, New York, NY Eight Realists: Realism Then and Now, K & E Gallery, New York, NY Recent Acquisitions, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY Pencilvanians Drawn to New York, Pennsylvania Alumni Exhibition, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY New Acquisitions, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY 1995 Five Aspects of American Landscape Painting, Creiger Dane Gallery, Boston, MA New York City Views, Owen Gallery, New York, NY Increased Visibility, Leslie-Lohman Gallery, New York, NY American Realism, Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan Group Show, G.W. Einstein Co., New York, NY 1994 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY Pride in Our Diversity, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY Paint Props and Process, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY 1993 Celebration, G.W. Einstein Co, Inc., New York, NY Far Away Places Artists Who Travel, SSC&B Lintas Worldwide, New York, NY Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY Art & Fantasy, Amos Eno Gallery and The Puck Building, New York, NY Organization of Independent Artists Benefit, Brook Alexander Gallery, New York, NY 19th & 20th Century Works of Art, Friends of OLANA Benefit, Hudson, NY 1992 New York Icons, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York, NY Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY Shanti Foundation Benefit Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Contemporary American Landscape, World Art Collection in conjunction with Quatre Pieces Gallery, Yokohoma, Japan The Scarf, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY 1991 Urban Icons, Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, NY City Edge of Night, The Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA Spirit of Place Dada Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan Group Show, Tatistchieff, Santa Monica, CA Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY American Images, Crane Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; World Art Collection, Yokohama, Japan; Daimon Art Gallery, Sapparo, Japan; Beersheba Gallery, Osaka, Japan 1990 Susan Schreiber Gallery, New York, NY Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Plein Air Painting: Capturing the Moment, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Land/Sea/Air, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD Penn Prints: 30 Years of Printmaking at the University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA A Little Night Music...
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1980s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Catskill Sunset (Contemporary Hudson River School Style Landscape Painting)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Hudson River School inspired landscape painting of a sunset over the Catskill Mountains in the Hudson Valley Made in 2005 by Bill Sullivan oil on canvas, framed in thin natural wood frame 18 x 42 inches Signed, lower right This contemporary landscape painting was made by Hudson Valley based artist, Bill Sullivan, in 2005. Interested in the style of the Hudson River School painters such as Frederic Church and Thomas Cole, Sullivan sought to adapt traditional landscapes with a modern lens. Here the artist captures a luminous sunset over the Catskill Mountains, a scene celebrated by the region's traditional landscape painters. Rays of yellow light radiate from the setting sun as it descends behind the purple toned mountains. Reflections from the sunset create almost technicolor hues in the sky. A warm orange transitions into hot pink before fading into a subtle sky blue. The painting is complimented with a thin, natural wood frame and has wire on the back for installation. The artist's signature is located in the lower right corner in oil paint. About the artist's 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. About the Artist: Sullivan attended Silvermine College and earned an M.F.A. from The University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver, Jane Freilicher, John Button and Rudy Burckhardt. He also studied privately with Josef and Annie Albers. In the late 1960s, Sullivan joined Bowery Gallery, an artist-run gallery that was dedicatedto figurative art. Later, when the Alliance of Figurative Artists was starting, Sullivan organized weekly panels and discussions at The Educational Alliance. Sullivan's first solo show at Bowery Gallery in 1970 included paintings depicting people, New York cityscapes and still lifes. After this show, Sullivan developed an interest in landscape painting. New York City, the Hudson River and Manhattan's West Side highway became his main subjects. He had several shows of these paintings at Bowery Gallery and continued to paint the Hudson River until the end of his life. At one of these shows he met art collector G. W. Einstein, who became his friend and represented him for many years. Sullivan had his first solo show at G. W. Einstein Company in 1978. In 1977, Sullivan met Colombian writer Jaime Manrique; they traveled to Colombia, where Bill painted the places that Frederick Edwin Church and Martin Johnson Heade had painted in the 1850s. In Colombia he had a solo show in the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art in 1978. The years following his return from South America was the period when Sullivan's work was most in display in New York City. Sullivan remained in New York City until 2001 where he had several solo shows. In 2002, he settled in Hudson, New York, where his two nineteenth-century heroes, Frederick Church and Sanford Robinson Gifford, had lived. He painted many of the sites Church and Gifford rendered on canvas. Resume: 2009 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2008 BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY 2007 BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY 2006 The Autobiography of Bill Sullivan: A Landscape Retrospective, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 2005 Roxbury Art Group, Roxbury, NY Hudson River Views, Bonnie Andretta Fine Arts, Hudson, NY 2004 Indelible, Gallery 2/20, New York, NY Workshop Exhibition, Dannette Koke Fine Art, New York, NY 2003 The Gallery at The St. Charles, Hudson, NY Paintings of South America, Hudson, NY Painted City, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Juried Art Show, Columbian Council on the Arts, Hudson, NY Made In Hudson, Artwalk, Hudson, NY 2002 Musselman Gallery, Hudson, NY 2001 HHA Gallery, Riverdale, NY The Landscape That Changed America, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 1999 Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA Greenwoods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK 1998 Suitcase Will Travel, Conductor’s Gallery, London, UK 1997 House/Scene, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany Selected Prints, Atrium Gallery, Long Island City, NY Contemporary Selections, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 1996 Uptown Gallery, New York, NY Eight Realists: Realism Then and Now, K & E Gallery, New York, NY Recent Acquisitions, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY Pencilvanians Drawn to New York, Pennsylvania Alumni Exhibition, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY New Acquisitions, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY 1995 Five Aspects of American Landscape Painting, Creiger Dane Gallery, Boston, MA New York City Views, Owen Gallery, New York, NY Increased Visibility, Leslie-Lohman Gallery, New York, NY American Realism, Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan Group Show, G.W. Einstein Co., New York, NY 1994 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY Pride in Our Diversity, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY Paint Props and Process, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY 1993 Celebration, G.W. Einstein Co, Inc., New York, NY Far Away Places Artists Who Travel, SSC&B Lintas Worldwide, New York, NY Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY Art & Fantasy, Amos Eno Gallery and The Puck Building, New York, NY Organization of Independent Artists Benefit, Brook Alexander Gallery, New York, NY 19th & 20th Century Works of Art, Friends of OLANA Benefit, Hudson, NY 1992 New York Icons, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York, NY Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY Shanti Foundation Benefit Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Contemporary American Landscape, World Art Collection in conjunction with Quatre Pieces Gallery, Yokohoma, Japan The Scarf, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY 1991 Urban Icons, Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, NY City Edge of Night, The Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA Spirit of Place Dada Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan Group Show, Tatistchieff, Santa Monica, CA Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY American Images, Crane Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; World Art Collection, Yokohama, Japan; Daimon Art Gallery, Sapparo, Japan; Beersheba Gallery, Osaka, Japan 1990 Susan Schreiber Gallery, New York, NY Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Plein Air Painting: Capturing the Moment, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Land/Sea/Air, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD Penn Prints: 30 Years of Printmaking at the University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA A Little Night Music...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Male in Cape Cod Landscape (Contemporary Oil Painting of Figure on a Dock)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
Male in Cape Cod Landscape (Contemporary Oil Painting of Figure on a Dock) by Bill Sullivan 36 x 84 inches oil on canvas, thin blonde wood stripping...
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1980s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Holly Sight from the Distance (Landscape Oil Painting of Hollywood Hills)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
58 x 67 inches oil on canvas, unframed (thin wood stripping only) Magnificent realist large scale oil painted landscape of the Hollywood Hills. The foreground shows a tree line...
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1980s American Realist Bill Sullivan Art

Bill Sullivan: New York, NY (Cityscape Oil Painting, Pink Sunset in Manhattan)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
Bill Sullivan: New York, NY (Cityscape Oil Painting, Pink Sunset in Manhattan) oil on canvas 66 x 64 x 1 inches, oil on canvas, thin wood stripping No visible signature on the front....
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1990s Fauvist Bill Sullivan Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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