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Ann Zahn: Master Printmaker

Garden Journal X: On the Beach White Line Woodcut, 1996 Assateague Ponies, Carousel Rides, Sugarloaf Mountain with Wooly Sheep, a Kauai Rooster, Goldfish and Koi Ponds, sea bearing vessels, vintage cars, beaches and landscapes, table scenes and garden scenes, portraits of old friends and neighbors, nude sketches and monkeys at the zoo. Zahn wrote numerous Artist Statements over her artistic career, but she never described herself as working in the figurativism style. A review of her work from her early art days to her death shows that the figure played an important role in her subject matter, whether in sculptural terra-cotta nudes displayed in her garden or in her prints. She used modern techniques and ideas to depict real-world subjects, including very recognizable human and animal figures. Sometimes, she would include landscapes to house her figures. Frequently, her garden scenes might take on more abstract elements, but she always included enough realism and imagination to all...

Jorge Blanco Delbugio, Uruguay Artist, Modern Latin Minimalist

Jorge Blanco Delbugio is a Modern Latin Minimalist from Uruguay. He has exhibited in the United States, but frequently signs his work “Blanco” which then becomes confused with the other Latin American artist Jorge Blanco, who is known as a sculptor with a great internet presence. Blanco Delbugio is highly influenced by Universal Constructivism that was introduced by the Uruguayan artist Joaquin Torres-Garcia. Torres-Garcia developed an artistic style that combined geometric shapes with pictographs that created meaning to the viewer. Torres-Garcia brought this style back to his home country in the 1930s from time spent in Spain, France and Italy, as well as New York City. After World War II Latin artists were beginning to be influenced by modern geometric abstraction concepts in design and artistry. In 2007, North America celebrated Latin America’s love for these artistic concepts with a traveling exhibit that featured artists and designers from all the major South American cities inclu...

Leo Manso (1914-1993) Abstract Impressionism Created by Collage

Manso combined two different art movements, the French world of Impressionism ushered in by Bonnard and Cezanne, and the American world that accepted a new way of seeing, abstraction. He exhibited with Pollack, and was a close friend and admired by famed artist Robert Motherwell. Manso sat at the precipice of avant-garde and cutting edge. In the second half of his life, he took on Assemblages, part collages, part paintings. If you don't closely examine the untitled landscape below, it looks like an abstract painting. It is a fluid composition, rich with color, but take a closer look. It consists of torn packing papers in free-form shapes, acrylic paints, and splattered India ink. It is clear that some torn papers were painted with colors first and then ripped into smaller elements, then attached with glue. At other times, he reduced the paper to its most transparent qualities, making the paper look like brush strokes. Once all the elements were assembled, he then in-paints...

Christa Riegen (1943-2020) Artist (FL, AR, NJ)

Christa Reuter Riegen’s interpretation of Henri Matisse’s “The Green Line” (La Raie Verte) also known as Madame Matisse, illustrates Riegen’s ability to capture the fundamental elements of the original painting. She celebrates the iconic painting, making it her own; it is not a duplicate, it is a refreshing portrait of Matisse’s wife. Madame Matisse Acrylic on Canvas 20 X 24" - Framed: 25 X 29" Signed Upper Right: Christa Riegen Dated: 3/2002 At the time of the painting, 1905, Matisse was part of a small modern movement called the les fauves (the wild beasts). The name came from their sheer strident use of color and wild brushstrokes. Matisse’s work would have been rejected by the major salons in Paris with this portrait. He creates no personification of female beauty in his wife’s portrait, it is a highly simplified painting. He uses a green line down the center of her forehead, continuing down her face and then on to her neckline. The green line represents a shadow upon h...

W. Scott Wilson, Artist - Spatial Expressionist

Is it possible that Wilson has been creating art for about 60 years? An article published by The Orlando Sentinel newspaper in the early 1980s, Wilson said he had been painting since the early 1960s. It is most likely that he started as a boy. At the time of that interview he had two studios, one in Tennessee and another in Wisconsin. His studies were at the Hunter Museum of Fine Arts in Chattanooga, where he spent two years working on painting and two years drawing. In the interview he said “I drew for two years solid, then got into color”. Wilson has spent years on the art festival circuit, packing up his art booth and moving on to the next street festival, weekend after weekend. During moments of respite, he creates work that fill his booth. There is a long list of accolades and awards by art judges and critics that have observed and judged his work. A quick glance at his lengthy list of awards would have you believe he should qualify for a national life-time achievement aw...

D. G. Hines (Donald Grant Hines) 1944-2019, Sculptor, Jeweler, and Inventor

Donald Grant Hines originally from Casper, Wyoming, moved over to Jackson Hole to be the founder, owner and jeweler for his name's sake jewelry store that he ran with his wife at the time. Upon retirement from the shop he starting spending time in the Arizona desert. For a while you could find examples of this sculpture at the Casa de Artist Gallery in Scottsdale, and in other Arizona locations where they described him as a 20th Century Arizona artist. One of his sculptures is shown below with a full description: The 17 inch vertical monolith of white Colorado marble stands on a wooden base. The sculpture points to the sky and takes advantage of the stone's original shape. Standing before the sculpture you are compelled to explore the many facets, and examine the back and forth of the solid and negative elements. There are swelling contours that start at the base and change as they move up in eleva...