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Alicia Czechowski Art

American, b. 1945

Alicia Czechowski, notwithstanding an MFA in art from Wayne State University, is a self-taught artist, as most artists have been. As a child with a natural aptitude for drawing and a lust for sheer visual experience, she began drawing with whatever materials came to hand. Her drawing skills developed during her teens, keeping a sketchbook handy at all times with the result that she did thousands of impromptu studies from life of happenstance subjects that struck a chord, such as people and animals at rest and in motion, random objects, buildings, vistas and extempore imagined imagery. 

Growing up in Detroit, Alicia Czechowski had ready access to the superb collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. At the age of 10, she did her first copy of a painting, a still-life by Claesz, which she rendered on a much reduced scale in colored pencil, and then she did a somewhat more ambitious quarter-scale oil copy of “Trappers on the Missouri” by Bingham. Later, she did full-scale oil copies of paintings, or details of paintings, by Frans Hals, Rubens, Chardin, Gainsborough, Van Dyke, Velasquez, Fantin-Latour, Fragonard and G. D. Tiepolo in the National Gallery and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through copying works by these artists, Czechowski's aim was to imbibe something of the virtuosic fluidity and transcendent expressiveness of their handling of the painting medium. 

“Being at work with your brushes and colors in front of a living, breathing painting by one of the greats, like Hals or Velasquez, is the most potent learning experience. It is the best way to learn to paint, almost like journeying back in time and actually watching them at work at their easels,” she says. 

Alicia Czechowski's work is in private collections throughout the United States, in Mexico, Germany, the U.K. and Japan. She has had solo shows in New York City, Connecticut, Maine and Wisconsin, and has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. She did over 200 freelance illustrations for The New Yorker magazine from 1988 to 1995. Czechowski has taught painting, artistic anatomy, 3-D design and drawing at Wayne State University, Portland School of Art, University of Utah, Heartwood College of Art, and was Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for five years. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Rahr-West Museum, Miller Art Museum and Haggerty Museum of Art.

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Artist: Alicia Czechowski
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Contemporary female artist still life watercolor fruit realism signed

Contemporary female artist still life watercolor fruit realism signed

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Find a wide variety of authentic Alicia Czechowski art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Alicia Czechowski in paint, watercolor, crayon and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the Photorealist style. Not every interior allows for large Alicia Czechowski art, so small editions measuring 19 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Brian Cobble, Irene Georgopoulou, and Robert Hallowell. Alicia Czechowski art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,700 and tops out at $100,000, while the average work can sell for $3,245.

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