Quinlan Visual Arts Center

ARTIST BORN ON THIS DAY:Mary Cassatt Mary Cassatt was born May 22, 1844 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. She was an American painter and printmaker most famous for her images depicting the bond between mother and child. Cassatt was born into an upper-middle-class family. Her mother, who came from a banking family and was extremely educated and well-read, had a massive influence on Mary. Cassatt and her family also spent many years abroad in Europe, which helped cultivate her ...education in drawing and music. Mary’s parents did not want her to become an artist as they were worried about her being exposed to feminist views. Despite this, Cassatt enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. As a result, Cassatt and her network of friends became lifelong advocates for equal rights of the sexes. Cassatt eventually grew tired of the slow pace and patronizing attitude of her male peers and teachers, so she dropped out of art school. She went to Paris to study instead, and trained by copying artworks daily from the Louvre. Cassatt traveled to Chicago, where she received some commissions but lost some of her early paintings in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. She moved back to Europe with a friend and fellow artist. Back in Europe, she saw more success and even sold a few paintings. Cassatt’s greatest paintings all depicted the life of women. She wanted to depict the 19th century, New Woman. Cassatt didn’t explicitly make political statements about women’s rights in her work, but her artistic portrayal of women was done with such respect and the suggestion of a deeper, inner life. #dailydessertdiscovery #painter #painting #printmaker See more

ARTIST BORN ON THIS DAY:Henri Rousseau. Henri Rousseau was born May 21, 1844 in Laval, France. He was a post-impressionist painter who is most well-known for his jungle scenes. Henri attended high school in Laval, and while he was mediocre in some subjects, he excelled in Drawing and Music. After high school, he went on to study law and then served four years in the army. In 1868, he moved to Paris to be with his mother, where he met his wife and had one child. He became a ...tax collector. From 1886 onwards, Rousseau regularly had works shown in the Salon des Independents. His work was not prominently displayed, but Rousseau’s following grew steadily over time. In 1893, Rousseau moved into a studio where he would work up until his death in 1910. Once, Pablo Picasso happened upon one of Rousseau’s paintings being sold on the street as a canvas to be painted over. Picasso recognized Rousseau’s genius and went to meet him. In 1908, Picasso even threw a banquet in Rousseau’s honor in his studio. #dailydessertdiscovery #impressionistpainter #painter #painting See more

ARTIST BORN ON THIS DAY: Bruce Beasley. Bruce Beasley (born 1939, in Los Angeles, California) is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born in Los Angeles and currently living and working in Oakland, California. He attended Dartmouth College from 195759, and the University of California, Berkeley from 1959-62 where he earned his BA. Beasley ranks among the most productive sculptors of the post- Henry Moore/David Smith generation of abstract sculptors. Today, Beasley is recognized as one of the most noteworthy and innovative sculptors on the American West Coast. His work can be found in the permanent collection of 40 art museums around the world. #dailydessertdiscovery #dailyartist #sculpture #sculptor #sculptureartist

ARTIST BORN ON THIS DAY: Jacob Jordaens. Jacob Jordaens was born on May 19, 1593 in Antwerp, where he remained for his entire life. He was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, and tapestry designer who was best known for his history paintings, genre scenes, and portraits. Jordaens was the first of 11 children, and was the son of wealthy linin merchants. Thus, he was well educated. This can be evidenced in his many paintings of parables from the bible and famous mythological stori...es. He trained under Adam van Noort for eight years, where he picked up watercolor. He enrolled in the Guild of St. Luke as a watercolor artist and married his teacher’s oldest daughter. Together, they had three children and bought a house in Antwerp. Jordaens would live, work, and create in that same house up until his death in 1678. Jordaens’ work included intricate tapestries, scene paintings, and portraits. He was commissioned by many wealthy local patrons for his work, and later even moved on to create for courts and governments across Europe. #dailydessertdiscovery #dailyart #painter #painting See more

ARTIST BORN ON THIS DAY: Eldzier Cortor A painter and master printmaker best known for his celebratory depictions of the African American woman, Eldzier Cortor was born in Richmond, Virginia, and raised in Chicago. Cortor went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in the 1930s worked as an easel painter for the Works Project Administration (WPA), depicting the lives of African Americans in Chicago’s South Side. During this time, he helped establish the SouthSide Co...mmunity Art Center. In the 1940s, two fellowships from the Rosenwald Foundation allowed Cortor to study the Gullah community on the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina, and to paint its African American inhabitants. Cortor found inspiration in the island’s people, heavily influenced by their African heritage. He also focused primarily on the female figure, stating: the Black woman represents the Black race. Cortor returned time and again to the female figure reminiscent of his Gullah depictions, despite having lived in various countries of the African diaspora and changing artistic styles in the United States. https://americanart.si.edu/artist/eldzier-cortor-1000 #dailydessertdiscovery #painter #printmaker See more

ARTIST BORN ON THIS DAY: Owen Rein Twice nominated as an Arkansas Living Treasure, Owen Rein has been making his living using the old time woodworking tools and techniques for almost 35 years. Over the years he has created a line of chairs and bar stools to fit most every need. The signature pieces of this line are his large rocking chairs. Owen has spent twenty years perfecting the comfort of this design. These award-winning rocking chairs have found homes in the permanent c...ollection of the Decorative Arts Museum in Little Rock, the White House, the Historic Arkansas Museum and many private collections. Mr. Rein also makes White Oak Baskets using a set of traditional designs passed down to him by the late Wayman Evans. Recently, the Renwick Galley of the Smithsonian Art Museum in Washington DC has acquired two of Mr. Rein’s baskets. To help keep this knowledge alive, Owen has published several articles about his woodworking, teaches classes, and gives lectures. http://offthebeatenpathstudiotour.com/owen-rein/ #dailydessertdiscovery #woodworker #basketweaver See more

ARTIST BORN ON THIS DAY: Michael Frimkess Michael Frimkess was one of the youngest artists ever to study with ceramics master Peter Voulkos at the Otis Art Institute. Frimkess began to throw pots modeled on ancient Greek kraters after seeing these in museums. He updated their forms by decorating them with cartoonlike images that expressed his political feelings. In the early 1970s multiple sclerosis made it difficult for him to work, and his wife, Magdalena, began to paint the exteriors of the vessels he built. https://americanart.si.edu/artist/michael-frimkess-7382 #dailydessertdiscovery #ceramicartist #pottery

ARTIST BORN ON THIS DAY: Sabrina Gschwandtner Sabrina Gschwandtner was born in 1977 in Washington, DC. She earned her BA from Brown University and her MFA from Bard College. She is a New York City-based artist and writer working in textiles, film, video, and installation. With the belief that knitting can take the diverse forms of graffiti, gift, clothing, protest, performance, and sculpture, she founded KnitKnit in 2002, a limited-edition journal dedicated to the intersection of traditional craft and contemporary art. Her book KnitKnit: Profiles and Projects from Knitting’s New Wave was published in 2007. https://www.artspace.com/artist/sabrina-gschwandtner #dailydessertdiscovery #fiberartist #knitter

Ruth Gikow was born January 6, 1915 in the Russian Ukraine but emigrated with her family to the Lower East Side of New York when she was 5. With a zest for living she never lost, she overcame the language barrier quickly and survived the teeming streets, diverting her tough cronies with chalk drawings on the sidewalk. She won distinction for her artwork at Washington Irving High School, which had one of the strongest art departments in New York City. At age 17, Gikow entered ...Cooper Union Art School and studied under two well known regional artists, Austin Purvis, Jr. and John Steuart Curry. She continued her studies under Raphael Soyer and held an impromptu showing of her earliest paintings in the lobby of the Eighth Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village. After art school, she received funding for four years from the WPA's Federal Arts Project. Following World War II, after a brief career in commercial art, she met and married Jack Levine. Challenged by his dedication and commitment, she returned to her own painting and drawing with renewed vigor. She illustrated Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' and began to exhibit at New York's Weyhe Gallery, Grand Central Galleries, Nordness Gallery, Forum Gallery and the Kennedy Galleries. Her endless quest to find humanity in a turbulent and sometimes hostile environment led art critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock to describe her as one of the country's 'ten outstanding women painters.’ Her own figurative style was nurtured when she and her husband traveled Europe, studying Old Master works, the wall paintings of Pompeii and the Byzantine mosaics at Ravenna. http://www.artnet.com/artists/ruth-gikow/biography #dailydessertdiscovery #Painter #womanartist See more

Thank you Viviane Van Giesen for sharing your love for the arts and the Quinlan. CONGRATULATIONS! "I would like to thank you for the opportunity to participate in the Quinlan Members Show. I am so thrilled to receive the First Place Award and the fact that I was juried by Steven Penley is the icing on the cake. Quinlan Visual Art Center is a jewel in the northeast Georgia world of art, and it is an honor to be awarded a prize in Quinlan’s renowned gallery, which attracts jurors of great talent such as Steven Penley. I wish you and the whole center continuous success in promoting the Georgia art community." - Viviane Van Giesen #watercolorartist #northeastgeorgia #Membersshow ##exhibition

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73rd Annual Members' Exhibition AWARDS ANNOUNCED!!! Come see these and other stellar works of art at the Quinlan (until December 5). www.qvac.org 770-536-2575 [email protected] #ourmembersrock #keepcreating #visualart #artists #artforsale #supportlocalartists #community #northeastga #gainesvillega #hallcounty Steve Penley

Use your finger or mouse to move around the screen and enjoy...remain curious, remain creative. https://kuula.co/share/79QMS #visualart #vangogh #impressionism

We are open till 7PM TODAY! Our Members' Exhibition is exquisite. Remember, masks and social distancing are mandatory at the Quinlan. A special THANK YOU to all those who have submitted work. During these strange times, the Quinlan is committed to bringing our community HOPE, STRENGTH and LOVE through visual art. #community #visualart #membersexhibition #northeastgeorgia #gainesvillega #hallcounty

Artist born on this day: Erle Loran Erle Loran (October 2, 1905 May 13, 1999) was an American painter and art historian. He was a professor of art at the University of California, Berkeley from 1937 to 1981, and the author of a book about French painter Paul Cézanne. His own paintings are held in museums in California and New York. #dailydessertdiscovery #art #painting #painter

Artist born on this day: Elaine Mayes. Elaine Mayes has been an active visual artist since 1960. Elaine majored in painting and art history at Stanford University and then studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with John Collier, Jr. Paul Hassel, Minor White, Nathan Oliviera and Richard Diebenkorn. Between 1961 and 1968, she was an independent photojournalist working in San Francisco for magazines and graphic designers. During 1967 and 1968, she was a rock and roll photo...grapher and photographed the ‘Summer of Love’ and scene in the Haight Ashbury District of San Francisco. One of her assignments was to photograph the Monterey Pop Festival. This work was published in her book called, It Happened in Monterey. Elaine’s ohotography has been exhibited extensively, with recent exhibitions connected with The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Summer of Love and The Monterey Pop Festival and include the deYoung Musuem, The California Historical Society, The SFO Museums United Airlines Terminal, The Monterey Art Museum, The Grammy Musuem, Spazio Gerra - Comune di Reggio Emilia, Italy and the Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla. #photogrpahy #dailydessertdiscovery #artistbirthdays

Pat Fiorello came to a close last evening. Take a look at what was accomplished. Thank you Pat for offering our keen learners a terrific outlet to keep betting their craft. You received rave reviews (next post). #qvac #artclassesandworshops #positivegrowth #keepcreating #northeastgeorgia

Day 1 of Pat Fiorello’s workshop at the Q...look at the progress!!! Pat is an amazingly generous teacher, sharing her talent and expertise without abandon. The day ended with Pat critiquing each student’s work. More progress will be made tomorrow. Cannot wait. #positivegrowth #beingcreative #artclassesandworshops #qvac

Two-day workshop with Painting Flowers in Oil Workshop with Pat Fiorello has started. Great way to spend this wet, gloomy day! Stay tuned...we will show you student progress. So grateful for this opportunity. We are enforcing social distancing and masks so all can create in a safe environment. #supportartists #keepcreating #artclasses #qvac