Juchnicki was an accomplished artist that studied painting for most of her 95 years. While her degree was in Business from Bay Path College, 1938, Longmeadow, MA. She spent at least 60 years studying art. She was a private pupil of the esteemed American artist Edwin Dickinson. Dickinson worked in Massachusetts, thus the connection. Dickinson left Juchnicki with the innate ability to communicate a landscape with quick impressionistic paint stokes. Like Dickinson, in the painting below and difficult to see in this photograph, she creates a country landscape with a farm grain silo with four paint strokes: red, maroon, and two that are in the pink tones. These four strokes illustrate sunshine and shadow as the silo takes on a round shape.
Close inspection of Juchnicki work looks effortless, the buildup canvas with paint almost adds a three dimensional quality. Here she is using “en plein air” methodology, building the composition while mixing oils right the canvas. She uses a complementary color scheme; the trees in sunlight and shadow make the red farm buildings look warmer and brighter, creating a focal point. The sky looks a little stormy, and perhaps she is telling us that evening is coming on by using a pink glow where the sky meets the treeline. The lemon-yellow-green groundcover show where the sun is poking through the evening clouds, and the pond is reflecting the surrounding farmstead.
Every good painting tells a story. Here, Juchnicki reminds of the farm that we grew up on, or a Sunday drive in the country with our parents. The viewer gets to interpret the painting anyway they want. We don’t know if this painting illustrates her native New England or her later home area in the Carolinas, but we do know that she spent hours exploring the countryside looking for brilliant foliage to capture on canvas.
Close inspection of Juchnicki work looks effortless, the buildup canvas with paint almost adds a three dimensional quality. Here she is using “en plein air” methodology, building the composition while mixing oils right the canvas. She uses a complementary color scheme; the trees in sunlight and shadow make the red farm buildings look warmer and brighter, creating a focal point. The sky looks a little stormy, and perhaps she is telling us that evening is coming on by using a pink glow where the sky meets the treeline. The lemon-yellow-green groundcover show where the sun is poking through the evening clouds, and the pond is reflecting the surrounding farmstead.
Every good painting tells a story. Here, Juchnicki reminds of the farm that we grew up on, or a Sunday drive in the country with our parents. The viewer gets to interpret the painting anyway they want. We don’t know if this painting illustrates her native New England or her later home area in the Carolinas, but we do know that she spent hours exploring the countryside looking for brilliant foliage to capture on canvas.
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| Oil on Canvas - 20 X 16 Inches Signed in the Lower Right: Helen Juchnick |
Helen H. Juchnicki - Biography Details
- B. 2/19/1917 Whately, MA - D. 12/27/2012 Little River, SC
- Residences: Western Massachusetts and Connecticut, and Little River, SC
- Art Instructor: Greenfield Adult Evening Education Programs
Collections: There are a couple of Juchnicki’s painting at her Alma Mater, Bay Path University, as well as private collections.
Education:
- Graduate of Bay Path College, Longmeadow, MA
- University of Massachusetts School of Art
- North Truro Art School, Cape Cod, MA
- Private Pupil of Edwin Dickinson, Wellfleet, MA
- William Schultz School of Art, Lenox, MA
Exhibits and Awards:
- Who’s Who Magazine France-featured artist (Les Editions De La Revue Moderne”
- New York City Gallery
- Fine Arts Gallery, Boston, MA
- Springfield Fine Arts League, MA
- Deerfield Valley Art Association
- Southern Vermont Art League, 1972
- Glastonbury Art on the Green, CT
- Marlborough Fall Art Show, CT (First Prize)
- Collectors Cafe and Gallery, Myrtle Beach, NC
- Waccamaw Art Guild - Best Seascape Award
- Sunset River Gallery, Calabash, NC 2005
References:
- Pay Bath University
- Legacy.com Obituary
- Old newspaper archives/PDF
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| Painting Signature - Lower Right |
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