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Julia Whitney BarnesPicturesque Botany (Still Life Painting of Flowers on Blue in Victorian Frame)2023
2023
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Realistic still life painting of colorful flowers on blue, made with cyanotype, watercolor, India ink, and gouache
"Picturesque Botany (Octagon/Foxglove, Gingko, Dusty Miller, Forget Me Not, Violet, Aster, etc.)"
Painted by Julia Whitney Barnes in 2023
Image dimensions: 18 x 18 inches / Frame dimensions: 26 x 26 inches
Wire hanger on the back
Signed lower right
Excellent condition
Using various paint mediums and cyanotype — a printing process that yields a blue image when a chemistry-coated surface is exposed to sunlight — the artist Julia Whitney Barnes cultivates Edenic vignettes. Rooted in the work of women artists and scientists like Anna Atkins, Whitney Barnes’ compositions exalt all plant life “with equal importance, regardless of whether it is a weed, rare species, wildflower, or cultivated flower,” said Whitney Barnes in an interview with Create Magazine.
Cyanotype is a camera-less photographic printing process invented in 1842 which produces a cyan-blue print when a non-toxic chemistry-coated surface is exposed to sunlight. Through the use of this medium, Whitney Barnes manipulates physical impressions of plants grown locally in her Hudson Valley garden and other nearby areas, along with intricately cutout photographic negatives. Given that sunlight starts the exposure process with cyanotype chemistry, select flowers are carefully arranged into compositions at night, followed by long exposures under natural or UV light to create the final prints. Once the unique cyan imagery is fused, Whitney Barnes meticulously paints the exposed watercolor paper with multiple layers of watercolor, ink and gouache. Each cyanotype is created by the power of light, inspiring viewers to look at these very recognizable images in new and different ways.
This piece is especially dynamic, owing to its octagonal shape with a frame to match. The base molding of the frames is solid cherry wood with applied molding in maple. These frames are finished in two shades of Kurian & Co.'s Dutch black finish. This finish comprises many layers starting with a dye stain and carbon black pigments followed by coats of padded shellac, followed by buffing and polishing with a soft wax to produce the rich and lustrous “ebonized” finish.
- Creator:Julia Whitney Barnes (American)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 26 in (66.04 cm)Width: 26 in (66.04 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Hudson, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU22714116382
Julia Whitney Barnes
Born in Newbury, Julia Whitney Barnes spent two decades in Brooklyn, before moving to the Hudson Valley, where she now lives with her photographer husband and two children. Barnes is a multidisciplinary artist whose work combines elements from the human or built environment in surreal juxtapositions with nature. Her boldly colored paintings are based on a variety of source images that are conjoined into unusual interiors and landscapes. Whitney Barnes works in the style of many Hudson River School artists who created composite paintings based on sketches from several days and locations distilled into a single image. Julia Whitney Barnes received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and MFA from Hunter College, both in New York. Whitney Barnes has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad and her work has been featured in The New York Times, Chronogram Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, The Village Voice, Hyperallergic and The New York Sun. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Abbey Memorial Trust Fund for Mural Painting, National Academy of Fine Arts, the Gowanus Public Art Initiative and completed public art projects in Fjellerup, Denmark through funding from Kulturpuljen, Norddjurs Kommune, Denmark in 2013 and the NYC DOT Urban Art program in 2011.
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