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The Road to Calvary (1979)
Brenda Bettinson
This is a model for one of two Bettinson paintings commissioned for installation in the meditation room at Calvary Hospital, Bronx, NY.
The fully executed painting is irregular in shape; it measures 7½’ x 20′ (2,25 x 6 m). The second panel is entitled The 15th Station of the Cross: Resurrection; it measures 96 x 42″ (2,4 x 1,05 m). Both works are painted with acrylic on masonite and are dated 1979. As in other panels from this period, Bettinson’s larger-than-life figures are informed by a solid foundation of human anatomy while facial features and skin color are left in the realm of universality. Texture from the gesso ground and uneven application of paint adds visual interest.
The paintings were removed from the meditation room sometime in the early eighties.
If you have any information about their current whereabouts and/or the circumstances or the timing of removal, Mathias Fine Art would be most grateful to hear from you. Such information will remain confidential. Please contact us through this website or by phone or mail.
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Paul Feyling
PAUL FEYLING has won numerous awards for his documentary films; he brings the same excellence and vividness to his still photography. His prints of the night sky have been highly praised and are much sought after. During the summers which he spends on Barter’s Island in Maine he has produced many studies of the island environment which are redolent with coastal atmosphere. He has captured the flamboyant sunsets, the tristesse of misty evenings, weathered man-made structures and the never ending interaction of sky and sea.
Recently he and Brenda Bettinson collaborated to produce the exhibitions Double Vision and Double Vision Encore which featured comparative approaches to island subjects. Double Vision, a 14 minute DVD of the exhibit with commentary, is available from Mathias Fine Art.
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Brenda Bettinson
BRENDA BETTINSON has exhibited extensively in Europe and the US. She has had one–person showings of her work in prestigious galleries and museums, such as in Maine, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Her work hangs in numerous public and private collections.
Throughout her more than 70 year career Brenda’s art has constantly developed; stylistic changes reflect her intense analytical interest in visual perception and her understanding of the human form as the vehicle of painterly expression.
Her biography may be found in Who’s Who in American Art and North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century; in 2017 BETTINSON was named inductee, World Lifetime Achievement, Marquis Who’s Who.
image info: Bettinson with her Three Goddesses (Trojan War Series) water-based media, 22¾ x 29½ (57,6cm x 74,7cm), © 2008, Mathias Fine Art.
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