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James Wilson Rayen Art

American, 1935-2013

James Wilson Rayen was an award-winning young painter at this time whose work was included in the exhibition “Art Across America” organized by the Mead Corporation, which traveled the country in 1965–67. Rayen became a founding member of the studio art department at Wellesley College.

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"Untitled Pastel #10", Landscape, Spring, Summer, Green, Pastel Drawing, 2008
By James Wilson Rayen
Located in Franklin, MA
James Wilson Rayen's 'Untitled Pastel #10' is from a series of studies of spring and summer rural landscapes.This piece, loose and impressionistic in technique, depicts a cluster of ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary James Wilson Rayen Art

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Paper, Pastel

"Untitled Pastel #11", Landscape, Trees, Spring, Summer, Pastel Drawing, 2008
By James Wilson Rayen
Located in Franklin, MA
James Wilson Rayen's 'Untitled Pastel #11' is a 15 x 15 inch pastel drawing on paper from a series of studies of spring and summer rural landscapes. This piece depicts three flowerin...
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Early 2000s Contemporary James Wilson Rayen Art

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Paper, Pastel

"Untitled Pastel #7", Landscape, Fields, Summer, Green, Pastel Drawing, 2008
By James Wilson Rayen
Located in Franklin, MA
James Wilson Rayen's 'Untitled Pastel #7' depicts open green fields with a loose, sketch-like quality in this 17 x 16.5 inch pastel on paper. From a series of studies of summer rural...
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Early 2000s Contemporary James Wilson Rayen Art

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Oil Pastel, Archival Paper

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Flower #4 (Yellow Flower)
By James Wilson Rayen
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James Wilson Rayen's Flower #4 (Yellow Flower) is one of a series of studies of blossoms, created in the early 2000s after the death of his mother. This oil painting on board, 12 x 12 x 0.75 inches, is a fresh and nuanced treatment of daffodils in a simple white vase, signed on the front and wired on the back. A recurrent theme of the artist's, one that offers limitless variations, is the beauty and individuality of ordinary places and things. In Rayen's words, 'memory, after observation, becomes the driving force—one forgets, adds, subtracts, and all take energy and imagination, until the painting becomes the product, not the process.' Born in 1935 in Youngstown, Ohio, James Wilson Rayen was a graduate of Phillips Academy...
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Flower #1 (Yellow Flower)
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Located in Franklin, MA
James Wilson Rayen's Flower #1 (Yellow Flower) is a fresh and nuanced painting of daffodils in a simple glass vase, one of a series of studies of blossoms created in the early 2000s after the death of his mother. The oil painting, on cradled gessoboard, is 12 x 12 x .75 inches, signed on the front and wired on the back. A recurrent theme of the artist's, one that offers limitless variations, is the beauty and individuality of ordinary places and things. In Rayen's words, 'memory, after observation, becomes the driving force—one forgets, adds, subtracts, and all take energy and imagination, until the painting becomes the product, not the process.' Born in 1935 in Youngstown, Ohio, James Wilson Rayen was a graduate of Phillips Academy...
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