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Barbara Ernst Prey Watercolor Painting, Griffin Hall, Williams College
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Artist: Barbara Ernst Prey – American (1957-)
Title: Griffin Hall, Williams College, Autumn
Year: circa 1980
Medium: watercolor
Sight size: …
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Artist: Barbara Ernst Prey – American (1957-)
Title: Griffin Hall, Williams College, Autumn
Year: circa 1980
Medium: watercolor
Sight size: 14.5 x 19.5 inches.
Framed size: 21 x 25 inches
Signature: Signed lower left
Condition: Very good
Frame: Gold wood frame. Frame in good condition
This watercolor of Griffin Hall at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts is by Barbara Ernst Prey. It depicts the cupola of the building surrounded by trees in autumn leaf. The painting is in excellent condition. It is simply matted and framed with a white mat and simple, but elegant gold frame. The frame is in good condition with some tiny scratches, barely visible upon close inspection.
Barbara Ernst Prey (born 1957, New York City) is an American artist who specializes in the art of watercolor. In 2008 Prey was appointed to the National Council on the Arts, the advisory body of the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2015, MASS MoCA commissioned Barbara Prey to create the world’s largest known watercolor painting (8 by 15 feet) for its new Building 6, which opened in Spring 2017. She has worked in oil painting and illustration, the latter of which she contributed to The New Yorker for a decade. She currently works and lives in Long Island, New York, Maine and Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Education:
Prey received her B.A in Art History with Honors from Williams College in 1979 where she was mentored by Lane Faison and a master's degree from Harvard University in 1986. A 2007 article in USA Today stated that “Prey’s academic studies at Williams College with the art historian Lane Faisson, and at Harvard University provide the connection between art and art history that so strongly informs her work.” After an internship at The Metropolitan Museum in New York City, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, enabling her to spend two years in southern Germany where she studied, worked and exhibited extensively. She then worked for a year as a personal assistant-court painter to Prince Albrecht Castell-Castell. A grant from The Henry Luce Foundation from 1986-1987 to Tainan, Taiwan, where she was a visiting Professor in Western Art, enabled her to continue to study with several Chinese master painters. She continued to exhibit in Asia where she painted her first large, full-sheet paintings. Prey is currently Adjunct Faculty at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Exhibitions
Prey's work has been featured in many national and international exhibits. For the past three years, her work has been featured in the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit: NASA Art: 50 Years of Exploration; and selected pieces can be found on exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC and at the Kennedy Space Center. In 2008 the Mona Bismarck Foundation in Paris, France presented the retrospective An American View: Barbara Ernst Prey. Preys painting "Parade Route" was chosen to be exhibited at the U.S. Embassy Hong Kong in 2015.
Collections
MASS MoCA,
The Brooklyn Museum,
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
The White House,
The Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Kennedy Space Center,
Williams College, Williams College Museum of Art,
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College,
The New-York Historical Society Museum,
The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Center,
The Farnsworth Art Museum,
The Taiwan Museum of Art,
Mellon Hall, Harvard Business School,
The Henry Luce Foundation,
Reader’s Digest Corporation
NASA Headquarters.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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- Dimensions
- 25ʺW × 1.25ʺD × 21ʺH
- Styles
- Realism
- Art Subjects
- Architecture
- Landscape
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- 1980s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Paper
- Watercolor
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Blue
- Condition Notes
- The painting is in excellent condition. It is simply matted and framed with a white mat and simple, but elegant … moreThe painting is in excellent condition. It is simply matted and framed with a white mat and simple, but elegant gold frame. The frame is in good condition with some tiny scratches, barely visible upon close inspection. less
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