Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
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
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...
Category
1970s Modern Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 Landscape Paintings
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1980s Modern Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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...
Category
1970s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1980s Modern Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1980s Modern Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
Materials
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 ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1980s Modern Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1987: Fischbach Gallery
1987: Gallery 454 North
1986: William Sawyer Gallery
1985: Fischbach Gallery
1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx
1984: William Sawyer Gallery
1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery
1981: William Sawyer Gallery
1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery
1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish, Irene Zweig, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015: REAL with Elizabeth Barlow Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2014: Stillness and Activity / A father and daughter exhibition, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2013: Outwin Boocher Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Hey Everybody / Portraits, Diablo Valley College
2012: Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge”, George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA.
Introduction Two/ Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2011: California: A Landscape of Dreams/ Fresno Art Museum
2010: Self Portrait Invitational/ Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT
2009: On Beauty /I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2008: At Water’s Edge / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2007: San Francisco Scenes/ George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA
Ten Years- A Retrospective/ Dolby Chadwick Gallery, S.F., CA.
2006: Our Planet, Our Home/ SFMOMA Artists Gallery, S.F. CA
2005: 2005 Spring Group Show/ Earl McGrath Gallery, L.A., CA
2002: H2O’02, Paintings of Water/ Fischbach Gallery, NYC
Scene in Oakland 1852-2002 Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
The Garden/ Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
The Moving Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
Bay Area Printmakers/ works from Trillium Press,
Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
California Landscape Paintings/ College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA
Bay Area Printmakers/ SF Museum of Modern Art/Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Visions: Northern California/ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
2001: Opening Exhibit: Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2000: Hackett Freedman Gallery Artists/ Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, Ca
1999: Homage to the Art Institute, Artists Who Transformed American
Culture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999: What is Art For? What are Museums For? What are You For? curated Curated for the Oakland Museum by William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster, Oakland, CA
1998: Paintings of Marin County Past and Present/ The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997: 10th Anniversary Exhibition/ Hackett Freedman Gallery, S.F., CA
1996: Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas/ Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (traveling exhibition)
Contemporary American Realist Painters/ Halls Crown Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1996: Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute/ One Bush St., S.F., CA
1996: New Work by Selected Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Flower Paintings/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
1995: Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area / De Young Museum, S.F., CA
Contemporary Still Life Painting/ David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1994: Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY
New Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
A Room with a View/ The North Point Gallery, S.F., CA
1993: Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
Vanishing Point: A Look at Contemporary Landscape Painting”,
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Tribute/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
Revolution: Into the 2nd Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, S.F., CA
Contemporary Realism: Central and Northern California Landscapes/ Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism/ a traveling exhibition curated by Alan Gussow and Babcock Galleries, N.Y., NY
1992: A Day in the Country, California Landscape Painting / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
West Art and the Law/ Weat Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN(traveling ex.) The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
In Support of Contemporary Bay Area Artists / One Market Plaza, S.F., CA
1991: The Landscape in 20th-Century American Art: Selections from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art/ New York, NY, National Traveling Exhibit
1990: Contemporary Landscapes/ 21st Anniversary Exhibition
Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1990: New Bay Area Painting Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
1989: The Modern Pastoral/ Robert Scholekopf Gallery, New York, NY
1988: Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Ten Artists from the William Sawyer Gallery / Shasta College Gallery, Redding CA
Works on Paper/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987: The Contemporary American Landscape/ Swain Gallery, NJ
1986: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape/ Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1985: The Bay Area Seen/ Bay Area Regionalists Show, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Large Scale/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
A City Collects/ Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
American Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984: San Francisco Bay Area Painting/ curated by George Neubert for the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
American Landscape Painting/ California State University, L.A. CA
Western Landscape Painters/ The Museum of the West, Houston, TX
The Urban Landscape / One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA
1982: Collectors Gallery 16/ McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Thirty Approaches to Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1981: Views of California Past and Present/ Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Landscapes/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
110th Anniversary S.F. Art Institute Alumni Group Show/
William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1980: Realism/ Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1979: Bay Area Artists Exhibition/Sale/ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Omnium Gatherum/ Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Viewpoints/ Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA
1978: New Work/ Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1977: Contemporary California Artists/ Marshall-Meyers Gallery
Alternative to the Whitney Annual/ James Yu Gallery, N. Y, N.Y.
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize)
1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ
1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gallery, Seattle, WA
Faculty Show/ California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1975: Realism in Painting and Ceramics/ Helen Euphrat Gallery,
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1975: A Tribute to the Art Institute/ Hansen Fuller Gallery, S.F., CA
California Artists/ Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
1974: Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water/ by Alfred Frankenstein Expo 74, Spokane, WA
A Sense of Place/ curated by Alan Gussow for the Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE
The Discovery Gallery, Montclair, N.J.
1973: College of Marin Gallery, Kentfield, CA
California Artists/ Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA
1972: Visiting Artists/ California State University, Hayward, CA
1970: Drawing Invitational/ Emanuel Walter Gallery,
San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA
1970: San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA
1967: Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Annual,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA
1966: California Landscape Painters/ San Francisco Art Institute, S.F. CA.
Selected Collections
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
San Francisco Art Commission
Shaklee Corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA
Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il
Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA
SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Airport
Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX
California First Bank, San Francisco, CA
United Pipeline, Houston, TX
Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA
Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Atlantic Richfield Corporation
Shell Oil, Houston, TX
First National Bank of Seattle
RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Texas Heritage Society
Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Sohio Corporation
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY
Chemical Bank, NY
Swissre Corporation, NY
The Insurance Company of North America
First National Bank of Midland, Texas
Commerce Bank
AMA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Hughes Tool, Houston, TX
ATT, NY
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, San Francisco, CA
IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA
Northern Trust Company, Chicago, IL
Smith Kline and French Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA
Republic National Bank
Chevron
Trammel Crow Company, Dallas, CA
U.S. Insurance Group, N.J.
Southwestern Bell Corp., MO
Union Bank
Pacific Bell
United States Trust Company, NY
The United Bank of Denver, CO
Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Atlantic Richfield Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Show, Pittman, Pots and Trobridge, Washington, DC
San Francisco Zen Center
Hughes Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, CA
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN
Bank of America, NY
Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City,MO
Robinson Humphrey/American Express, Atlanta, GA
Merrill Lynch, San Francisco, CA
Goldman Sachs, NY
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., NY
Victoria Bank and Trust, Victoria, TX
NYNEX, NY
Coca Cola, U.S.A., Atlanta, GA
TransAmerica Corporation
Pacific Telesis Group
Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison Exxon Corporation
U.S. Trust
Selected Private Collections
Estate of Ahmet Ertegun, New York, NY Mr. Harrison Ford, Los Angeles, CA
Estate of Irving Lazarr, Los Angeles, Ca
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Holzer, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asher, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. John Irvin, London, England Ms. Joan Didion, New York , NY
Ms. Sabrina Guinness, London, Eng.
Mr. and Mrs. Austin Hills, San Francisco, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Duchin
Ms. Linda Ronstadt
Ms. Faye Dunaway
Mr . Peter Morton
Mrs H.J. Heinze, New York, NY
Mr. Rupert Lowenstein
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Emery, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Earl Mc Grath, New York, NY
Mr. Nat Weiss, New York, NY
Mr. Luca Barilla
Mr. Bruce Schnietzer, New York, NY
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Carroll, New York, NY
Mrs. Nicholas Boyd, San Francisco, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Green, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Chappy Morris, New York, NY
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"White Landscape" Original Oil Paint on Canvas by Marilina Marchica
By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
100x100 cm
Original Art Ready to Hang
Marilina Marchica orients her pictorial research to the theme of subtraction, her attention is focused on the aesthetic and conceptu...
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2010s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Oil
H 39.38 in W 39.38 in D 0.79 in
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Maracaibo Twilight (Colorful Venezuelan Landscape Painting on Canvas, Framed)
By Bill Sullivan
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Hudson River School inspired landscape painting of a purple and yellow sunset in Venezuela
Made in 1996 by Bill Sullivan
oil on canvas, framed in thin natural wood frame
24 x 24 inches
Signed, lower left
This contemporary landscape painting was made by Hudson Valley based artist, Bill Sullivan, in 1996. 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 and 90's, the Sullivan traveled in the footsteps of Frederic Church, capturing the same scenes the late artist made famous 100 years prior. Here the artist paints a luminous sunset over Maracaibo, a city in the northern region of Venezuela. Rays of yellow light radiate from the setting sun as it descends behind the purple ocean. Reflections from the sunset create almost technicolor hues in the sky. A warm yellow transitions into deep purple before fading into a subtle violet. A tropical forest, painted in stark black, decorates the foreground. 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 left 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...
Category
1990s Modern Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 25.25 in W 25.25 in D 1 in
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
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...
Category
1980s American Realist Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
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....
Category
1990s Fauvist Bill Sullivan Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bill Sullivan landscape paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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