Jennifer Presant

Red Interior, Oil Painting, Scene Through Window

2006

Katherine Bowling (American, b. 1955) Oil on spackle on wood 1988 Hand signed, titled and dated verso, Dimensions: 48"h x 48"w Provenance: From an Important Private Collection, NYC; bears gallery label from Blum Helman Gallery, NYC Notes/Literature: Exhibited: "Earth and Sky: Recent Paintings by Katherine Bowling, Joan Nelson and Ellen Phelan", Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College 1992 Katherine Bowling (born 1955, Washington, D.C.) is a modernist painter known for her layered landscape paintings that draw inspiration from nature in the Hudson Valley. Katherine Bowling grew up in Tidewater, Virginia. She received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1978. Bowling's first New York show, as well as her first solo exhibition, was in 1987. Bowling's works tend to be luminous landscape paintings that often feature woods and fields as well as roads. Many of her paintings are based on her photographs of woods and fields surrounding and in Schoharie County, where she rents a house. As Molly O'Neill notes in an essay on Bowling and her work, this area is "fifty miles northwest of the vistas that inspired the Hudson River School painters in the mid-1800s." Bowling focused in particular on the imagery of roads for the theme of her exhibition at Greenberg Van Doren, Divide. As the title implies, writes Lilly Wei in the exhibition's accompanying catalog, Bowling views the roads as "abstract marks in the landscape that divide and order space." Even with roads she has often traveled, Bowling finds something new on closer inspection that alters her perception of the familiar and mundane. Bowling explains that the roads "function as a metaphor for memory and displacement." In 2001, Bowling exhibited a number of seascape paintings. In her essay on the exhibition, art historian and critic Nancy Princenthal writes that, far from being an aberration from Bowling's typically home-based scenes, the ocean paintings are "a return to childhood memories and life long inclinations. A native of Virginia, she spent her first summers at the Atlantic shore and on the Chesapeake Bay." Primarily, however, Bowling's works focus on capturing the play of light and shadow. Art critic Eleanor Heartney notes that "Her paintings, like those of Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir, focus on the ephemeral moment and the fleeting impression, conjuring the flicker of sunlight through the trees, the shifting shadows of early evening, the reflections of clouds and foliage glancing across the rippling surface of a lake." They have a luminist quality to them. O'Neill argues that Bowling additionally "has an innate sense of abstraction and she ranges happy as an uncaged chicken, pecking elements from the Impressionists' obsession with light; from modern photography; and the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock." Bowling is influenced by the use of light in the paintings of European Romantics such as J. M. W. Turner and John Constable as well as by the later work of George Inness:  Her paintings also recall landscapes by Claude Lorraine, Albert Pinkham Ryder and Camille Corot. Bowling is known for her use of spackle. She uses a long process of layering and sanding to create the "back-lit" effect found in her paintings. First, the paintings begin as a photograph which she typically takes near her rented house in the Hudson Valley. Then, she uses these photographs, which serve as her "preliminary drawings," to aid in the painting process. She also paints from memory and direct observation. Bowling paints on square panels of plywood. Bowling considers rectangular pieces to be too horizontal and rife of implications already of landscapes and horizons. She sometimes paints on one of these square and sometimes paints on several square panels together. The seams between these adjoined panels are left visible. Next, Bowling applies layers of spackle. O'Neill remarks that "Inspired, perhaps, by her day job of painting houses, [Bowling] turned to more industrial media: damp vinyl spackle, a building compound that is applied to wooden panels to create a matte, fresco-like surface. Thinned oil pigments are poured, allowed to dry, and then the Sisyphean task of sanding begins."  Initial layers generally correspond with the color of the light—varying from pinks, golds, blues, and oranges. Through this layering and sanding, she creates a luminous quality in her landscapes. Despite rigorous sanding, air bubbles within the spackle layers are revealed occasionally on the surface. Rather than disguise them, Bowling integrates them. Heartney writes that Bowling "allows these irregularities to become part of the painting so that the viewer's perception of the play of light and shadow across the image cannot be separated from an awareness of surface itself." In later stages of painting, Bowling stands above panels to throw, dribble, and splatter paint with a hair dryer, recalling the techniques of Abstract Expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock. Awards and honors 1991 National Endowment for the Arts Grant 1989 New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 1988 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship Notable public collections The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, CA Fisher Landau Center, New York, NY Select exhibitions 2025 PS122 Gallery Lower East Side, New York 2022 Katherine Bowling: Trees Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York 2013 Woods, Lovely Dark and Deep. DC Moore Gallery Chelsea NY Featuring: Eric Aho, Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, Dozier Bell, Jake Berthot, Katherine Bowling, Charles Burchfield, Mary Frank, Noriko Furunishi, April Gornik, Marsden Hartley, Daniel Heidkamp, David Hilliard, Mark Innerst, Max Jansons, Sissel Kardel, Whitfield...

Joellyn T Duesberry Wall on Wharf Street, #513, New Orleans, LA 1976. Oil on linen Dimensions: (Frame) H 50.5" x W 66.5". sight size 50 x 66" Hand signed and titled verso Joellyn Toler Duesberry (1944 – 2016) was a plein air landscape artist who worked in oils. Joellyn Duesberry American Landscape Painter Bridging Realism and Abstraction Joellyn Toler Duesberry (1944–2016) was an American landscape, Plein Air, painter working primarily in oil, celebrated for canvases that hold realism and abstraction in deliberate tension. Born in Richmond, Virginia, on June 30, 1944, Duesberry developed an early, formative connection to the land growing up in rural Virginia, seeking out woods, creeks, and lakes as places of solitary refuge and sketching from childhood. Though she went on to earn two advanced degrees — graduating with highest honors from Smith College in 1966, followed by an MFA from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University — Duesberry is considered a self-taught painter, developing her singular style largely outside the classroom. Mentorship Under Richard Diebenkorn The defining turning point in Duesberry's development came in 1986, when she received an Individual Painting Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to study with the celebrated Bay Area painter Richard Diebenkorn. Though Diebenkorn's influence on her work was conceptual rather than stylistic, Duesberry often cited him as her most significant mentor, crediting him with instilling three ideas that shaped the rest of her career: that the abstract and the real are indistinguishable in painting, that the modernist exploration of all poles of expression should be pursued without timidity, and that an artist's compositional instincts are rooted in deep, often unconscious memory. Diebenkorn also encouraged Duesberry to take up monotype printmaking, a medium she embraced with passion and continued to exhibit alongside her paintings for the rest of her career, working for many years with Denver's Open Press. It was this period of study that prompted her move from Manhattan's Bowery to Colorado in 1985. Exhibition History Duesberry began exhibiting in New York City in 1979, eventually mounting ten solo exhibitions there, and was later represented by Tatistcheff Gallery and Graham Modern in New York, as well as Broschofsky Galleries in Ketchum, Idaho, among roughly seven galleries coast to coast. Major retrospectives followed at the Denver Art Museum (Joellyn Duesberry: Three Decades of Paint, January 2006) and the Century Association in New York, as well as a fifty-year retrospective at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, accompanied by the monograph Elevated Perspective (2011). In 1997, she received the Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize from the National Academy of Design, and from 1998 to 1999 she held a World Views residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, painting from studio space in the World Trade Center's North Tower — an experience that gave her body of work a lasting connection to Ground Zero following September 11, 2001. Style and Legacy Critics and dealers alike have noted that Duesberry's contemporary canvases echo the modernist masters John Marin and Milton Avery, sharing their bold color and their instinct for finding underlying geometric structure within the observed landscape. Her plein air practice took her across the American Northeast and West, particularly Colorado and New Mexico, as well as Italy and France, and she maintained a decades-long connection to the Colorado art scene after moving to Denver in 1985. In 2005, PBS produced a documentary on her life and work, Joellyn Duesberry: Dialogue with the Artist. She died on August 5, 2016, at age 72, following a long struggle with cancer. Her work is held today in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University, among others. Keywords: Joellyn Duesberry, American landscape painter, Richard Diebenkorn student, plein air painting, Colorado landscape art, Denver Art Museum collection, National Academy of Design Altman Prize, monotype printmaking, John Marin Milton Avery influence, World Trade Center painter, September 11 Memorial Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, contemporary American realism, abstraction and landscape painting She said that her paintings echo the work of John Marin and Milton Avery. In 2005, a PBS documentary was made of Joellyn Duesberry's life, work, and creative process titled Joellyn Duesberry: Dialogue with the Artist. Her works are held by institutions such as Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smith College Museum of Art. Publications 1998: A Covenant of Seasons: Monotypes by Joellyn T. Duesberry, Poetry by Pattiann Rogers, 2011: Elevated Perspective: The Paintings of Joellyn Duesberry, SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS Elevated Perspective: The Paintings of Joellyn Duesberry, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Joellyn Duesberry: A Passion for the Land, Leslie Levy Fine Art, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ Joellyn Duesberry: A Passion for Western Land, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO Joellyn Duesberry Monotypes: Hidden Treasures, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO Joellyn Duesberry: Solace on Safari, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. Recent Monotypes, James Graham & Sons, Madison Avenue, New York, NY Joellyn Duesberry: Monotypes, Lizan-Tops Gallery, Easthampton, NY The Garden Paintings, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO Joellyn Duesberry: Paintings, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO Joellyn Duesberry, Graham Modern, Madison Avenue, New York, NY Joellyn Duesberry: Paintings and Monotypes, Carol Siple Gallery, Denver, CO Joellyn Duesberry, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS Significant Women Artists, Curtis Arts & Humanities Center, Greenwood Village, CO Finding Abstraction, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO Rocks on Paper, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY Summer Landscape Show, Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME Defining the West: 200 Years of American Imagery, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Roots, Landing Gallery, Rockland, ME Annual Professional Painters’ Exhibition, The Century Association, New York, NY Glory of Landscapes, Pelham Art Centre, New York, NY Salon du Musee, Featured Artist, Salon d Arts at Gallery 1261, Denver, CO Small Works, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO The Urban Myth, Vision of the City, Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA The Art of Printmaking, paying homage to Open Press,Archer Concept Group,Denver,CO Twenty Years: Paintings: Joellyn Duesberry, Bunny Harvey...

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