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Ryan Parker has made a new series of prints that follows his playful approach to constructing imagined spaces.  They are called Windows new print works combine etching and aquatint from a series of plates.  Once the plates are printed, windows are cut into the sheet and filled by printed sheets trimmed from other plates.  Perhaps they are best explained by example.  Here we include Windows IV and Windows VII.  Please get in touch if you’d like to see images of the rest of this series or more of Ryan’s work.

Each print in the series is unique and measures 19 3/4 x 29 5/8″

Michael Canning works in Limerick, Ireland.  His first Fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in County Mayo, Ireland was in 2007 and he’s returned in 2009, 2011 and 2012.  A solo exhibition of drawings and sculpture was presented in the gallery at Ballinglen in the Autumn of 2012.  Canning’s drawings are the handsome results of a process that alternates between applying materials (paints, soot, ink graphite, and collage elements) and breaking down the surface with abrasive materials.   Color is restrained and the plants depicted feel both fragile and monumental in vast, deep space set up by the low horizon line.

Pictured here is Governance, 2009, 48 x 36″.  We have other works and we will happily provide images if you contact us.

Sloan (1932-2008), was a prominent figure in the Philadelphia art community.  An alumnus of Fleisher Art School and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Sloan taught still-life, landscape, portrait and figure painting classes at PAFA from 1962-1997.

oil on canvas, 34 x 44″, signed and dated in recto

Sloan was the recipient of a long list of awards including, PAFA’s third annual Distinguished Alumni Award and the Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, the Emily Lowe Grant, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the James Van Der Zee Award from Philadelphia’s Brandywine Workshop, Sloan also received tributes in the halls of government from Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode, and most recently on November 4, 2008, from Mayor Michael A. Nutter. His paintings are in the collecitons of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Woodmere Art Museum.
Sloan favored a somber pallet for his accutely observed paintings of his native city and rural Pennsylvania landscapes. Winter Landscape recalls Winslow Homer’s Fox Hunt in the collection of PAFA. Sloan reduces the scene even further to poem of white grays under a leaden sky and puncuated by dry grasses and wind-exposed rock. Sloan’s true passion was landscape painting and it is in paintings such as, Frost Valley in the Catskills, 1995, that his great techinical skills, unique artistic vision and masterful rendering of nature are brought together. Sloan was memorialized with a 2009 exhibtion of some 30 paintings at PAFA in 2009.
We are always happy to hear from you and see you in Philadelphia. Let us know when you’re coming. or Do make a plan to visit us, the Barnes Foundation and Philadelphia’s other great museums.

Additional Contemporary and Modern artists as well as our collections of African American, Atelier 17, and WPA artists will be featured on this page.

Whenever we see our friends from our days at the National Black Fine Art Show, the topic of the show’s rebirth never fails to come up. Sadly, there is no sign that the show will return and we miss it and all of you, very much. We continue to work hard to present superb works by African Americian artists. Sharing works and information about artists we believe in is one of the great pleasures in what we do.

We have important works by:

Ron Adams
Radcliffe Bailey
Mary Lee Bendolph
Robert Blackburn
Sam Brown
Elizabeth Catlett
Claude Clark
Beauford Delaney
David Driskell
Allan Edmunds
Ramon Gabriel
Reginald Gammon
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Lawrence Hosannah
Lois Mailou Jones
* Paul Keene
Beni Kosh
Kerry James Marshall
Martin Puryear
Rachelle Puryear
Vincent Smith
* Dox Thrash
* Cheryl Warrick
Charles White
John Woodrow Wilson
Michael Williams

* We carry these artists in depth. Their names link to pages on this site.