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Bill SullivanEl Dorado, Guatavita (Modern Landscape Oil Painting of Lake Guatavita, Colombia)c. 1980
c. 1980
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11 x 25.5 inches
$2,500
oil on canvas, unframed
Modern, horizontal landscape oil painting of Lake Guatavita in Colombia which inspired the legend of El Dorado. The oil painting is colorful with highly saturated hues to depict a sunset descending over the large lake. The vivid pink and yellow hues contrast beautifully with dark silhouette of the mountains and the gold reflection in the lake. The brushwork is very smooth, with little texture built upon the surface. No visible signature. This landscape is horizontal with measurements of 11 x 25.5.
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:c. 1980
- Dimensions:Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Hudson, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2271391693
Bill Sullivan
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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