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Richard Britell
Madison Street, Left
2018

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"Madison Street, Left" is an original painting on wood panel in colors of brick red, grey, brown and gold. The artist regularly photographs NYC architecture for use as subjects for his paintings, generally using the building's address as the title. "Madison Street, Left" is framed with a stained walnut floater frame designed by the artist. Richard Britell, a career painter, studied at Pratt Institute with Philip Pearlstein and Walter Erlebacher. His first show in NYC at Staempfli Gallery was sold out, and reviewed in the New York Times by Hilton Kramer. Mr. Britell says of one of his early experiences as an artist, "I am not a New Yorker. This came home to me the first time I ever entered a gallery to show my portfolio. It was a large room in which were eight foot square black and white photographs of women's heads. In the corner was a beautiful woman talking on the phone in a German accent. I said, ‘I would like to show the director my portfolio’. She said, ‘I'm sorry sir, this isn't a gallery, it's a hair salon.’ Later that same day I did acquire gallery representation. Four years later I had my first one man show which was sold out, and reviewed in the New York Times. Most of those paintings back then were of the architecture of Pittsfield, MA. New Yorkers bought them all up. Now New Yorkers are buying up the city of Pittsfield itself, go figure. Hilton Kramer, in his review of my work said, "If there is an element of nostalgia in these works it is not too bothersome..." Of these current works I would say, if there is an element of nostalgia in them, it is entirely the point. I learned to love New York, and I realized that it is possible to love a place in the same way that one might love a woman, in the same way, and with the same consequences.” “There are modes of Realism in which the depiction of concrete detail is so concentrated–and so obsessive–that the visual result bears a distinct esthetic kinship to pictorial abstraction. Richard Britell’s paintings are a particularly vivid example of this phenomenon. Mr. Britell’s subject matter is drawn from the world of pre-modernist architecture. What he focuses on are brick facades, stonework structures and the elegant decorative embellishments that were once a standard feature of the gothic revival, neo-classical and other historicist styles of American urban architecture. These he depicts with a great deal of pictorial force. Only rarely, however, does the imagery in Mr. Britell’s paintings offer us much in the way of social documentary–or social commentary. (The broken window that we glimpse in a brick facade in the painting called ”Bank Row, Syracuse,” for example, is unusual.) It is the design element in this architecture that interests him–the density and regularity of its formal detail, say, or the handling of light and shadow in conception of a complex outdoor structure. Often the facade of a building is observed in the kind of close-up view that becomes, in effect, the equivalent of a geometrical abstract painting. He is particularly good at painting brickwork, stone window frames and decorated entrances. He has a very analytical eye, and he commands an impressive technique. If there is also an element of nostalgia in these paintings, it isn’t particularly bothersome. After all, we all have ample reason to cherish this architecture today, and Mr. Britell’s homage to it proves wholly equal to its quality.” -Hilton Kramer New York Times Colors: brick red, grey, brown, gold Notes: architecture, New York City

Creator:
Richard Britell
Creation Year:
2018
Dimensions:
Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
Medium:
Oil,Wood Panel
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
GT. BARRINGTON, MA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU51133627882

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