PASTELS by Master Pastel Artist IRVING PETLIN
Contact Tanya Augoustinos at (508) 939 0518 or Email at AGallerymv@hotmail.com to view a portfolio of selected works in person on Martha’s Vineyard through Summer / Fall 2024.
Explore Irving Petlin’s webpage at Pastels and paintings by Irving Petlin
Past Events
Pastels from 1988 to 2013
August 30 & 31, 2022
Master pastel artist, and longtime summer resident on Martha’s Vineyard, Irving Petlin (1934 – 2018) would each year invite friends and patrons to view his new work he had conceived of and produced on the Vineyard during the summer months. Most were completed while on the island, others would be refined once he returned to his Paris Atelier home base.
A selection of twelve pastels were shown in a historic stone walled barn which doubled as a studio on the family property in Chilmark. All but two were made in his beloved studio where he worked during the summer for four decades.
Irving Petlin, Fire Tree II, from The Farm Series,
pastel, 26.6 x 19.7 inches
Irving had a strong spiritual connection to his Chilmark home, to the trees, the stones, the buildings, and the landscape. The selection included three pastels referencing the farm. Two, from The Farm Series, immortalize what he called the Fire Tree, (now felled) which stood protectively beside the summer fire-pit on Wayside Farm.
The Morning of the Other Window, (diptych I, 2007), 26 x 40 inches, (pictured above), frames the view from an upstairs window in the Barn overlooking the family cottage, a small outbuilding and the wider property. This perspective echoes narratives in many works drawn from the view from his 5th floor Paris Atelier window over rooftops, and is as much a composite of elements of place, memory distilled, filled with history, time, and belonging.
Thank You for Supporting the Second Annual GIVE ME SHELTER Harbor Homes Art Exhibit to Benefit Homeless People on Martha’s Vineyard.
GIVE ME SHELTER is a 2-Day ART Exhibit to benefit the goals of Harbor Homes of Martha’s Vineyard. Harbor Homes is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization for all homeless prevention programming on the Island. Harbor Homes operates one house with 6 beds for formerly homeless women, and a men’s house that house 6 formerly homeless men. Harbor Homes administers a winter shelter for Island residents. A homeless Prevention Caseworker is employed to address concerns of housing for individuals and families.
Curated by Tanya Augoustinos and Marjorie Mason
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS :
Rez Williams, Wendy Weldon, Colin Ruel, Meg Mercer, Billy Hoff
Rez Williams, Wendy Weldon, Colin Ruel, Meg Mercer, Billy Hoff
Marjorie Mason, Anne-Besse Smith, Elizabeth Taft,
Valentine Estabrook, Whitney Cleary, Billy Hoff, Melissa Nellis Patterson,
Donna Blackburn, Darcie-Lee Hanaway, Issa Van Dyk,
Carol Brown Goldberg, Jennifer Joanou, Leslie Baker, Kara Taylor,
Walker T. Roman, Ruth Kirchmeier, Rob Hauck, Abbey Kuhe,
Michael Johnson, Lucy Dahl, Judith Howells, Linda Thompson,
Marie-Louise Rouff, and Frances McQuire.
A GALLERY • Contemporary • POP UP
JULY 2nd – JULY 30th, 2022
Seventeen Artists with Paintings, Photography, Mixed Media, and Ceramics, in Collaboration with Featherstone Center for the Arts, 30 Featherstone Lane (off Barnes Road), Oak Bluffs, FRANCINE KELLY GALLERY
This eclectic exhibition featured established and emerging artists, with selected works from the Estates of the late Irving Petlin (1934 – 2018) with pastels on handmade paper, and the late Richard Lee (1933 – 2012) with reverse glass paintings in hand-painted frames.
Artists : Abbey Kuhe • Alejandro Carreño • Billy Hoff • Carol Brown Goldberg • Francois Venter • Irving Petlin • James Langlois • Jennifer Joanou • Leslie Baker • Libby Ellis • Mikey Rottman • Richard Lee • Rez Williams • Richard Erickson • Ruth Kirchmeier • Whitney Cleary
Call 508 939 0518 for information about available works from this exhibition.
Rez Williams, ORION, oil on canvas, 54 x 72 inches
DIRECTOR Tanya Augoustinos
TEL: 508 939 0518
EMAIL: agallerymv@hotmail.com
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