Dan Rupe Paintings
American, b. 1952
Dan Rupe, a supremely talented artist as bright and dazzling as his paintings. At one time in his life, living in Chicago, Rupe painted from photographs. One day Rupe ventured into his garden, set up his easel and went to work, he never painted from a photograph again. Why, when he could paint life? Rupe went from the studio to the garden, to the street. The experience Rupe got painting and the people, all sorts of people from all walks of life, their interaction, caused him to value living, being an artist he was safe to talk to, to approach. Rupe was part of the world, part of street theatre. Rupe was born in Elkhart, Indiana. His father, although born in a log cabin in western Kentucky, rose from poverty to become a surgeon. He worked at the hospital. He worked all the time. Rupe was raised as a Mennonite. They were at the World Conference, they had chrome on their bumpers and zippers. They were a close family, lived out in the country and had a large garden. His mom canned everything, not because of money, but because this is how you do it. It’s a midwestern thing. Rupe had chores to do and gained a work ethic. Rupe still gets up early to do his work, he trusts it, his mind is clearest, his emotional slate is cleanest in the early morning. The daughter of a neighboring farmer was in her 30’s, a beatnik and an artist. She gave Rupe art lessons; working in pastels and soap carving, he was six. Rupe had three heroes growing up, “Amelia Erhardt, because she was so strong she got lost. Georgia O’Keefe, nothing could stop her and Marilyn Monroe, her beauty could not stop her.” Rupe’s mother had a beautiful singing voice and urged him to take music lessons. At 11, Rupe got serious about oil paints. Turning 16, Rupe decided to be a painter instead of a musician. Rupe’s father took him for a drive and told him how difficult it was going to be making a living from my art. Rupe thought it wouldn’t be any more difficult than music. The following year Rupe went off to Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan with his parent’s blessing. Always one to seek out truth, at 17, Rupe went to his family and his church and told them he was homosexual, They did not reject him, which amazed him. Fond affection passes over Rupe’s eyes, pride in his family for their courage and willingness to embrace truth. At this time Rupe also made a clear shift in his painting, He eliminated black and earth tones from him palette. Rupe saw murky, muddy paintings and students struggling to get clear images and not understanding why. Today Rupe embraces this same technique. Under painting in red, his vivid colors vibrate with unique power, Painting provides immediate response. Rupe works in oils because the paint doesn’t shift in tonality, there is truth in the color. When Rupe teaches he tells his art students, “The Jibber-Jabber in your mind is a lie, go with your first thought it’s the truth, the most important of all. Choosing your subject whatever it may be is about honestly experiencing what is in front of you. It is what you need to create.” “Art is not a noun. Art is a verb, you must take action.” Rupe lived and painted all over the world, from Katmandu to Easter Island, the Dominican, Mexico, Wisconsin, Chicago, Provincetown to L.A. Rupe lived the fast lane pace of booze and drugs for a time. Rupe thought he’d either live to 110 or die young. At some point in your life, life slips and you ask, do you want to live or die? Rupe chose to live. Rupe put on the brakes and turned it around. Rupe could have become a well-known artist in the L.A. art scene, but the demeaning jobs he’d have to take to get there angered him and that was troubling. Then a moment of synchronicity occurred. Rupe helped two friends move to Hudson from L.A. The instant Rupe drove into town he burst into tears, the architecture, the beauty, the grit, the past splendor and years of neglect. It was real, so Rupe moved here. Where she lives, she has become there. Rupe asks why he loves painting on the street. Rupe is attracted to the color and patterns and the light. Rupe chose to make art brightly with bold strokes, it’s laughing out loud with nothing to hide, he just let it out. Rupe wants people to stop and look at his work, He loves to talk to them, it’s life, it’s genuine. Rupe knows who he is when he paints.
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Artist: Dan Rupe
Summer Day Lilies (Contemporary Still Life of Vibrant Lilies, Oil on canvas)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Summer Day Lilies (Contemporary Still Life of Vibrant Lilies, Oil on canvas) by Dan Rupe
22 x 22 inches
oil on canvas
Signed on reverse
Artist Dan Rupe paints only from life, his composition ruled by his intuitive sense of formal order. He begins covering his canvas with a deep crimson wash. This ground gives his brilliant pure color , applied with an expressive, direct gesture, an electric charge. No matter how often or how long one looks at a Rupe painting, it is always the present tense. The tone of his palette, the freshness and clarity of primary colors, reflects an optimistic attitude, an intrinsic love of life.
In this work, three vibrant pale nude colored lilies open their blooms amidst bright green grasses. Rupe succeeds at capturing the immediacy of his subjects be it flowers, buildings or people.
Read below for an amusing profile written about the artist in 2003:
You‘ve likely seen him on the streets of Hudson, seated before his canvas in a multi-colored paint daubed t-shirt and shorts, his straw hat providing shade for all but his tanned forearms and knees. His splattered Technicolor Walkman tape player...
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214, 216 State St. (Fauvist-Style Suburban Landscape Oil Painting)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary Oil Painting of State St. in Hudson, NY by Dan Rupe
Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches
This colorful depiction of cool gray and yellow houses in the sun was painted by Hudson, NY artist Dan Rupe. The buttery yellow house stands out against its pastel blue surroundings alongside a wood sided townhouse. Paint is applied loosely to the canvas in thick, vivid strokes, lending the painting a very palpable texture that is characteristic of Rupe's work. Bright swaths of color applied with bold strokes thick with paint are his signature techniques. A new series of ‘en plein air’ paintings rediscover the charming town of Athens, NY where the diverse architecture spans over three centuries and the city layout has essentially remained the same since the late 19th century
About the artist and work:
Dan Rupe paints only from life, his composition ruled by his intuitive sense of formal order. He begins covering his canvas with a deep crimson wash. This ground gives his brilliant pure color , applied with an expressive, direct gesture, an electric charge. No matter how often or how long one looks at a Rupe painting, it is always the present tense. The tone of his palette, the freshness and clarity of primary colors, reflects an optimistic attitude, an intrinsic love of life. Rupe studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts.
Artist Resume:
Education:
Interlochen Arts Academy - Kansas City Art Institute
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts
Exhibitions:
2017 Hudson Valley Landscapes, Carrie Haddad Gallery...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
56 Washington, Athens NY (Fauvist Style Oil Painting of Yellow & Blue House)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Fauvist style landscape oil painting of Upstate New York cityscape
"56 Washington," painted en plein air by Dan Rupe
Signed on the back in red oil paint
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112 2nd St (Contemporary Brightly Colored Oil, White House & Blue Trim)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Fauvist style landscape oil painting of Upstate New York cityscape
"112 2nd St," painted en plein air by Dan Rupe
Signed on the back in red oil paint
24 x 30 inches unframed...
Category
2010s Modern Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peach Lilies (Contemporary Still Life of Vibrant Tiger Lilies, Oil on canvas)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Peach Lilies (Contemporary Still Life of Vibrant Tiger Lilies, Oil on canvas) by Dan Rupe
22 x 22 inches
oil on linen canvas
Signed on reverse
Artist Dan Rupe paints only from life, his composition ruled by his intuitive sense of formal order. He begins covering his canvas with a deep crimson wash. This ground gives his brilliant pure color , applied with an expressive, direct gesture, an electric charge. No matter how often or how long one looks at a Rupe painting, it is always the present tense. The tone of his palette, the freshness and clarity of primary colors, reflects an optimistic attitude, an intrinsic love of life.
In this work, three vibrant peach colored lilies open their blooms amidst bright green grasses. Rupe succeeds at capturing the immediacy of his subjects be it flowers, buildings or people.
Read below for an amusing profile written about the artist in 2003:
You‘ve likely seen him on the streets of Hudson, seated before his canvas in a multi-colored paint daubed t-shirt and shorts, his straw hat providing shade for all but his tanned forearms and knees. His splattered Technicolor Walkman tape player...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Macawamio Firehouse Athens, NY (Fauvist Style Cityscape Painting on Canvas)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Fauvist style landscape oil painting of Upstate New York cityscape
"Macawamio Firehouse Athens, NY" painted en plein air by Dan Rupe
Signed on the back in red oil paint
24 x...
Category
2010s Modern Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Top of Leeds Athens Road (Fauvist Style Landscape Painting of Country Mountains)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Fauvist style landscape oil painting of Upstate New York Catskill Mountains
"Top of Leeds Athens Road," painted en plein air by Dan Rupe
Signed on the back in red oil paint
...
Category
2010s Modern Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
31 Washington Street (Contemporary Cityscape Painting of Building & Power Lines)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Fauvist style landscape oil painting of Upstate New York cityscape
"31 Washington Street", painted en plein air by Dan Rupe
Signed on the back in red oil paint
24 x 30 inche...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
16 3rd St. Athens NY (Oil on Linen Town Street Landscape in Vivid Color Palette)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
16 3rd St. Athens NY
22 x 18 inch
oil on linen
Artist Signature on Reverse
Dan Rupe's beautiful color palette captures the streets where he lives with vibrancy and life, adding int...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Big White Lily (Fauvist Style Abstracted Still Life Painting of White Flower)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Fauvist style floral still life painting of a big white flower on a green background
Oil on linen, 19 x 16 inches, unframed
Signed on the back in red oil paint
This modern,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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Born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1987: Fischbach Gallery
1987: Gallery 454 North
1986: William Sawyer Gallery
1985: Fischbach Gallery
1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx
1984: William Sawyer Gallery
1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery
1981: William Sawyer Gallery
1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery
1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish, Irene Zweig, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015: REAL with Elizabeth Barlow Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2014: Stillness and Activity / A father and daughter exhibition, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2013: Outwin Boocher Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Hey Everybody / Portraits, Diablo Valley College
2012: Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge”, George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA.
Introduction Two/ Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2011: California: A Landscape of Dreams/ Fresno Art Museum
2010: Self Portrait Invitational/ Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT
2009: On Beauty /I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2008: At Water’s Edge / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2007: San Francisco Scenes/ George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA
Ten Years- A Retrospective/ Dolby Chadwick Gallery, S.F., CA.
2006: Our Planet, Our Home/ SFMOMA Artists Gallery, S.F. CA
2005: 2005 Spring Group Show/ Earl McGrath Gallery, L.A., CA
2002: H2O’02, Paintings of Water/ Fischbach Gallery, NYC
Scene in Oakland 1852-2002 Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
The Garden/ Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
The Moving Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
Bay Area Printmakers/ works from Trillium Press,
Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
California Landscape Paintings/ College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA
Bay Area Printmakers/ SF Museum of Modern Art/Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Visions: Northern California/ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
2001: Opening Exhibit: Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2000: Hackett Freedman Gallery Artists/ Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, Ca
1999: Homage to the Art Institute, Artists Who Transformed American
Culture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999: What is Art For? What are Museums For? What are You For? curated Curated for the Oakland Museum by William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster, Oakland, CA
1998: Paintings of Marin County Past and Present/ The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997: 10th Anniversary Exhibition/ Hackett Freedman Gallery, S.F., CA
1996: Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas/ Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (traveling exhibition)
Contemporary American Realist Painters/ Halls Crown Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1996: Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute/ One Bush St., S.F., CA
1996: New Work by Selected Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Flower Paintings/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
1995: Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area / De Young Museum, S.F., CA
Contemporary Still Life Painting/ David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1994: Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY
New Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
A Room with a View/ The North Point Gallery, S.F., CA
1993: Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
Vanishing Point: A Look at Contemporary Landscape Painting”,
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Tribute/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
Revolution: Into the 2nd Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, S.F., CA
Contemporary Realism: Central and Northern California Landscapes/ Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism/ a traveling exhibition curated by Alan Gussow and Babcock Galleries, N.Y., NY
1992: A Day in the Country, California Landscape Painting / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
West Art and the Law/ Weat Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN(traveling ex.) The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
In Support of Contemporary Bay Area Artists / One Market Plaza, S.F., CA
1991: The Landscape in 20th-Century American Art: Selections from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art/ New York, NY, National Traveling Exhibit
1990: Contemporary Landscapes/ 21st Anniversary Exhibition
Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1990: New Bay Area Painting Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
1989: The Modern Pastoral/ Robert Scholekopf Gallery, New York, NY
1988: Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Ten Artists from the William Sawyer Gallery / Shasta College Gallery, Redding CA
Works on Paper/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987: The Contemporary American Landscape/ Swain Gallery, NJ
1986: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape/ Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1985: The Bay Area Seen/ Bay Area Regionalists Show, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Large Scale/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
A City Collects/ Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
American Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984: San Francisco Bay Area Painting/ curated by George Neubert for the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
American Landscape Painting/ California State University, L.A. CA
Western Landscape Painters/ The Museum of the West, Houston, TX
The Urban Landscape / One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA
1982: Collectors Gallery 16/ McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Thirty Approaches to Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1981: Views of California Past and Present/ Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Landscapes/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
110th Anniversary S.F. Art Institute Alumni Group Show/
William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1980: Realism/ Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1979: Bay Area Artists Exhibition/Sale/ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Omnium Gatherum/ Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Viewpoints/ Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA
1978: New Work/ Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1977: Contemporary California Artists/ Marshall-Meyers Gallery
Alternative to the Whitney Annual/ James Yu Gallery, N. Y, N.Y.
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize)
1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ
1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gallery, Seattle, WA
Faculty Show/ California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1975: Realism in Painting and Ceramics/ Helen Euphrat Gallery,
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1975: A Tribute to the Art Institute/ Hansen Fuller Gallery, S.F., CA
California Artists/ Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
1974: Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water/ by Alfred Frankenstein Expo 74, Spokane, WA
A Sense of Place/ curated by Alan Gussow for the Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE
The Discovery Gallery, Montclair, N.J.
1973: College of Marin Gallery, Kentfield, CA
California Artists/ Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA
1972: Visiting Artists/ California State University, Hayward, CA
1970: Drawing Invitational/ Emanuel Walter Gallery,
San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA
1970: San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA
1967: Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Annual,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA
1966: California Landscape Painters/ San Francisco Art Institute, S.F. CA.
Selected Collections
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
San Francisco Art Commission
Shaklee Corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA
Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il
Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA
SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Airport
Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX
California First Bank, San Francisco, CA
United Pipeline, Houston, TX
Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA
Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Atlantic Richfield Corporation
Shell Oil, Houston, TX
First National Bank of Seattle
RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Texas Heritage Society
Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Sohio Corporation
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY
Chemical Bank, NY
Swissre Corporation, NY
The Insurance Company of North America
First National Bank of Midland, Texas
Commerce Bank
AMA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Hughes Tool, Houston, TX
ATT, NY
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, San Francisco, CA
IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA
Northern Trust Company, Chicago, IL
Smith Kline and French Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA
Republic National Bank
Chevron
Trammel Crow Company, Dallas, CA
U.S. Insurance Group, N.J.
Southwestern Bell Corp., MO
Union Bank
Pacific Bell
United States Trust Company, NY
The United Bank of Denver, CO
Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Atlantic Richfield Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Show, Pittman, Pots and Trobridge, Washington, DC
San Francisco Zen Center
Hughes Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, CA
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN
Bank of America, NY
Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City,MO
Robinson Humphrey/American Express, Atlanta, GA
Merrill Lynch, San Francisco, CA
Goldman Sachs, NY
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., NY
Victoria Bank and Trust, Victoria, TX
NYNEX, NY
Coca Cola, U.S.A., Atlanta, GA
TransAmerica Corporation
Pacific Telesis Group
Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison Exxon Corporation
U.S. Trust
Selected Private Collections
Estate of Ahmet Ertegun, New York, NY Mr. Harrison Ford, Los Angeles, CA
Estate of Irving Lazarr, Los Angeles, Ca
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Holzer, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asher, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. John Irvin, London, England Ms. Joan Didion, New York , NY
Ms. Sabrina Guinness, London, Eng.
Mr. and Mrs. Austin Hills, San Francisco, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Duchin
Ms. Linda Ronstadt
Ms. Faye Dunaway
Mr . Peter Morton
Mrs H.J. Heinze, New York, NY
Mr. Rupert Lowenstein
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Emery, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Earl Mc Grath, New York, NY
Mr. Nat Weiss, New York, NY
Mr. Luca Barilla
Mr. Bruce Schnietzer, New York, NY
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Carroll, New York, NY
Mrs. Nicholas Boyd, San Francisco, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Green, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Chappy Morris, New York, NY
Ms. Carla Kirkeby, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Caplow, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meyerowitz, New York, N.Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Gilsendaine
Mrs. Caroline Cushing Graham, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Michael Nesmith, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Griffen Dunne, New York, N.Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Erskine, Pasadena, CA
Mr. N.J. Friedman, Hillsborough, CA
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By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Fauvist style floral still life painting of zinnias, and green grass with accents of orange and peach pink
Oil on linen, 20 x 16 inches, unframed, $1100
Signed on the back in red oil paint
This modern, Fauvist-style still life painting by Dan Rupe captures zinnias against a lush green grass background with hints of purple. Here the artist combines his signature pops of bold color to capture the flowers at the height of summer. The green grass pops against accents of yellow, which is the artist's under-layer. Loose, gestural strokes of paint are applied with an impasto effect, creating interesting texture and brilliant opacity. The artist's illustrative signature is found on the back of the painting. The work is currently unframed and measures 20 x 16 inches.
Artist Information:
Dan Rupe paints the towns and gardens he loves with expressive abandon and a high-keyed palette. Inspired by the animated energy, the rhythms of Hudson & Athens, NY, as well as Provincetown, MA, Rupe captures the diverse architecture and color of the jumbled mix of historic and commercial and community landmarks. He likes to be out on the street first thing in the morning, taking in the sensations of town and composing his canvas.
He paints only from life, his composition ruled by his intuitive sense of formal order. He begins covering his canvas with a deep crimson wash. This ground gives his brilliant pure color, applied with an expressive, direct gesture, an electric charge. No matter how often or how long one looks at a Rupe painting, it is always the present tense. The tone of his palette, the freshness and clarity of primary colors, reflects an optimistic attitude, an intrinsic love of life.
More about the artist:
Education:
Interlochen Arts Academy - Kansas City Art Institute
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts
Exhibitions:
2018 Painted Cities, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015 Cityscapes, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2014 Landscapes and Bobyscapes, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2008 Solo Painting Show, Erden Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2006 Painted Cities, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2005 Painted Cities, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2004 Painted Cities, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2003 Fall In Love, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2002 Solo Show, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
1998 Artist in Residence Program: Altos De Chavon, Dominican Republic
1997 Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Face Above Edwidge, Provincetown, MA
William Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Provincetown Public Library, Provincetown, MA
“Calenda”, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
1996 Habitat, Belmont, MA
Aids Support Group, Provincetown, MA
Ellen Harris Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
1995 Ellen Harris Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Gallery Pertutti, Boston, MA
1992 Expo, Chicago, IL
1991 Grand Avenue Gallery, Chicago IL
1990 Wells Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 Gallery X, Rockford, IL
1987 Mary Bell Gallery, Chicago IL
1984 Halsted Gallery, Chicago IL
Donald Batman Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1983 Goshen College, Goshen, IN
Covington Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
West Side Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
1980 Paul Waggoner Gallery, Chicago, IL
Audubon Artists, New York, NY
1979 Mennonite Artists Contemporary, Goshen IN
You‘ve likely seen him on the streets of Hudson, seated before his canvas in a multi-colored paint daubed t-shirt and shorts, his straw hat providing shade for all but his tanned forearms and knees. His splattered Technicolor Walkman tape player...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Paintings: White Day Lilies & Zinnias by Dan Rupe
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
This listing contains two paintings by the artist Dan Rupe:
1) "White Day Lillies & Zinnias I", 2016, 19 x 16 inches, oil on canvas unframed, $1000
Modern, Fauvist style floral stil...
Category
2010s Modern Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dan Rupe: "Parked" and "Two Day Lilies"
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
This listing contains two paintings by the artist Dan Rupe
"Two Day Lilies" Modern, Fauvist style floral still life painting of white day lilies and green grass with accents of crim...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Leeds Athens Marsh (Fauvist Style Oil Painting on Canvas of Sunlit Landscape)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Fauvist style landscape oil painting of Upstate New York
"Leeds Athens Marsh," painted en plein air by Dan Rupe
Signed on the back in red oil paint
12 x 16 inches unframed
This contemporary Fauvist style landscape painting of a marsh...
Category
2010s Modern Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Day Lilies & Zinnias (Fauvist Style Flower Still Life Painting on Canvas)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Fauvist style floral still life painting of white day lilies, zinnias, and green grass with accents of crimson red and peach pink
Oil on linen, 19 x 16 inches, unframed
Signe...
Category
2010s Modern Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Day Lilies (Fauvist Style Still Life Painting of White Flowers on Green)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Fauvist style floral still life painting of white day lilies and green grass with accents of crimson red
Oil on linen, unframed
22 x 22 inches
Signed on the back in red oi...
Category
2010s Modern Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
First and N. Church St, Athens NY (Fauvist Style Cityscape Painting)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, Fauvist style cityscape painting of white Victorian house in an upstate New York town
Oil on linen, unframed , 18 x 24 inches
Signed on the back in red oil paint
This moder...
Category
2010s Fauvist Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
H 18 in W 24 in D 1 in
Flower Heels (Colorful Fauvist Style Still Life Painting of Pink & Green Shoes)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Colorful, fauvist style still life painting of pink and green high heels on a lilac purple tablecloth
Acrylic on canvas board, signed on reverse
12 x 12 inches unframed
This modern, fauvist style still life painting was created by Athens, NY based artist, Dan Rupe, in 2018. The playful small still life painting captures colorful high heels...
Category
2010s Fauvist Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 12 in W 12 in D 0.25 in
Hazel's Roses (Abstracted Fauvist Style Still Life Painting of Pink Flowers)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstracted, Fauvist style still life painting of pink flowers in glass vase
14 x 11 inches unframed, signed on reverse
acrylic on canvas board...
Category
2010s Fauvist Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
14 3rd St. Athens NY (Oil on Linen Town Street Landscape in Vivid Color Palette)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
14 3rd St. Athens NY, 2018
18" X 22"
oil on linen
Artist Signature on Reverse
Dan Rupe's beautiful color palette captures the streets where he lives with vibrancy and life, adding...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Monument at Fairland (Colorful Fauvist Style Cityscape Painting of Provincetown)
By Dan Rupe
Located in Hudson, NY
Colorful, Fauvist style cityscape painting of Provincetown, MA.
18 x 30 inches
oil on canvas, framed in a simple black moulding
This modern, Fauvist-sty...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Dan Rupe Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 18 in W 30 in D 1.5 in
Dan Rupe paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Dan Rupe paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of paintings 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, pink, purple and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Dan Rupe in fabric, oil paint, paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Dan Rupe paintings, so small editions measuring 16 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Joseph Maresca, Mark Bowers, and Jennifer Blalack. Dan Rupe paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,100 and tops out at $2,400, while the average work can sell for $1,600.