Category: Influences

Josh Goldberg is a well known Tucson Artist and teacher. I first saw Josh Goldberg’s work in an exhibition and I was deeply affected. It was profound. I decided I had to study with him. The following is a quote from his artist statement. “In my paintings I look through the personal to the suprapersonal;…

(American Artist 1884 – 1974) I studied with Leon Kroll at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He was an excellent artist and an inspiring teacher. Known primarily as a classic figurative artist who painted many nudes, Kroll was part of a circle of New York artists that included several members of…

(American artist, 1919 – 2014)  Barbara Hall was born Isabelle Danielle Hall in Tucson, Arizona, where she grew up. I studied with her when I stayed at the Quarry Hill Creative Arts Center, her retreat in Vermont. When Barbara Hall married Irving Fiske, they bought 130 acres in Vermont called Quarry Hill (later called Quarry…

(American artist 1880–1946) Responding to Dove’s 1997 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art the critic Robert Hughes stated:“If there was ever an artist in the American grain, it was Arthur Dove, with his obstinate home-made lyricism, his complete authenticity and his desire to be modern on local–not Euro-imitative–terms.” Soon after Dove’s return from…

(French artist 1840-1916) “True art lies in a reality that is felt.” In trying to explain the darkness present in Redon’s early works, predominately black-and-white charcoals, critics described them as “mutated, terrifying creatures dominated this macabre period which Redon called “le noirs’ “, but which Paul Gauguin says in Beyond the Visible: The Art of…