Cornelia Foss: A Retrospective - Hardcover

McClatchy, J. D.; Wilkin, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847846466 ISBN 13: 9780847846467

Publisher: Skira Rizzoli, 2015

Synopsis

The first comprehensive survey of Cornelia Foss s landscapes, still lifes, and portraits, an artist in the style and tradition of Fairfield Porter. The American artist Cornelia Foss is part of a loosely knit group of artists commonly described as painterly realists, many of whom are associated with Long Island s scenic Hamptons region, including Eric Fischl and Fairfield Porter. This is the first such survey of this artist s work to be published. Long considered a quintessential Long Island artist, Foss has painted Wainscott Pond for over half a century.Foss s work mirrors her protected environment pastel drawings of her own garden and nearby ponds; oil portraits of her granddaughters and pets; landscapes featuring beach scenes and still-life paintings showing flowers on a windowsill. Thus, the art conveys a nurturing perspective that also acknowledges the outside world. Beautifully designed, this volume provides deep insight into the breadth and range of the artist s practice over the past fifty years."

About this title

About the Author:

J. D. McClatchy is an American poet and literary critic. He is the editor of the Yale Review and former president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Karen Wilkin is a curator and art critic who specializes in twentieth-century modernism. John Guare is an American playwright.

About this edition

• Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0847846466
• ISBN 13: 9780847846467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224