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Artis Lane Still-life Paintings

Canadian, b. 1927

For work that spans portraiture, oil painting and bronze sculpture, the Canadian artist Artis Lane draws from the spiritual and emotional aspects of human existence. Lane is a trailblazer: She was the first Black woman to be admitted to Cranbrook Academy of Arta legendary institution within art, design and architecture — and her bronze bust of Sojourner Truth was the first statue of an African-American woman in the United States Capitol.

Lane was born in North Buxton, Ontario, in a town predominantly inhabited by the descendants of slaves who arrived in Canada by way of the Underground Railroad. As her artistic career developed, so did her interest in people of African descent as well as her ideas about the physical world and our bodies being vessels, capable of eventually taking on godly characteristics.

“Lane promotes the primacy of corporeal experience with sculptures that speak to Africa as the beginning of human life,” noted the University of Oklahoma’s Journal of Museum Studies in 2008. Her unique approach to depicting the journey between the physical and spiritual worlds has been to work outside the constraints of the traditional bronze finishing process, leaving the ceramic casing, wire and tubing used to cast it intact as part of the finished piece, whereby the wire is symbolic of bondage to the physical form.

Lane attended what was then called the Ontario College of Art (today, it’s the Ontario College of Art and Design University) on the Edith Chapman scholarship before studying painting at Cranbrook. She took an active role in the artistic communities in the various cities she lived in over the years. In New York and Los Angeles, she befriended actors Cary Grant and Diahann Carroll, and in Detroit, she painted commissioned portraits of auto industry executives to pay the bills. She would go on to paint portraits of many esteemed figures such as President John F. Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jordan and Aretha Franklin. Today, a sculpture Lane created of Rosa Parks is on display at the National Portrait Gallery.

Lane received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the California African American Museum and an honorary degree from her alma mater, Cranbrook Academy of Art.

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Artist: Artis Lane
"Flowers in Pink Vase" Oil on Canvas, Still-Life Painting, Rich Pinks & Greens
By Artis Lane
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Artis Lane’s “Flowers in a Pink Vase” fills the canvas with the breathtaking beauty of colors and with the dynamic energy of their movement. The subject of the flower has captured the interest of both artists and viewers across centuries and in numerous cultures. Mosaics of flowers can be seen on the villa floors in Pompeii and Herculaneum pre 79 A.D., the Dutch painter Jan Davidsz de Heem is famed for his Baroque still lifes of flowers in the 1600s, French artist, Edouard Manet’s Last Flowers are revered as some of his best work, and the 20th c. silkscreens of Andy Warhol’s Poppys...
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1970s Contemporary Artis Lane Still-life Paintings

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Artis Lane still-life paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Artis Lane still-life paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Artis Lane in canvas, fabric, oil paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 1970s and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Artis Lane still-life paintings, so small editions measuring 48 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Pat Service, Charles Pachter, and Andrea Stajan-Ferkul.

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