U.N. Garden (Fauvist Style Flower Still Life Painting on Canvas)
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 Still-life Paintings