Nell Blaine Signed Serigraph Titled “Flowers”Limited Edition A.P. 5/20

Description: Nell Blaine Hand Signed Serigraph Titled “Flowers” Limited Edition A.P. 5/20 32.5” x 40” Framed, Matted w/ Glass Ready to Hang. Nell Blaine Nell Blair Walden Blaine (July 10, 1922 in Richmond, Virginia – November 14, 1996 in New York City) was an American landscape painter, expressionist, and watercolorist. From Richmond, Virginia, she had most of her career based in New York City and Gloucester, Massachusetts. Nell Blaine Born Nell Blair Walden Blaine July 11, 1922 Richmond, Virginia Died November 14, 1996 (aged 74) New York, New York Nationality American Education Richmond School of Art, now Virginia Commonwealth University Known for Painting Spouse(s) Bob Bass (m. 1943⁠–⁠1949) Awards Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Blaine resisted classifying her work, which explored color and the interplay of light and shade. The subject matter was primarily landscapes of the Hudson River made from her apartment window, vases of flowers, still lifes, home interiors, or her garden at Gloucester, Massachusetts. She once said, "The artist needs a permissive atmosphere. I am not involved in impressionism, and I have turned from my former total abstract presentation. Mine are action paintings. I want to be surprised by what I am doing. An artist must be his own leader, no matter what direction he takes." By the 1950s, Blaine's work had reached considerable acclaim in New York City. Art critic Clement Greenberg spoke highly of her work, describing Blaine's Great White Creature as “best in the show” at the annual exhibition of the American Abstract Artists in 1945. Peggy Guggenheim selected one of her pieces for the second landmark exhibition of women artists, Art of This Century: The Women, held at Art of This Century in 1945, on Greenberg's recommendation. The abstract artist Ad Reinhardt credited her work in 1947. As Blaine's practice continued, she began to experiment more with Abstract Expressionism, watercolor as a medium, and the repeating motif of a window view from an interior. By 1959, despite her depleted health, Blaine was frequently traveling, painting landscape scenes in the Caribbean, Europe, New England, and more. At this point, she had largely moved past her Abstract Expressionist phase, and into a more Modernist style. By the mid 1970s, she had settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts. From the start she saw painting as a means of celebrating life and conceived her role to be that of an orchestrator of forms and colors. Blaine would convey this sense of celebration in her early abstractions inspired by jazz, recent unfurling petals of dahlias, or cushiony zinnias that testify to the abundant small miracles of the commonplace. Blaine's work often expresses a sense of isolation. While Gloucester was obviously much more secluded than New York, the theme is visible in her early work as well. Much of her reclusive, personal style can be attributed to the intimate relationship between artist and nature, to which she was deeply in tune when living in rural Massachusetts. Blaine was known to paint in seclusion, often late at night when she could have the quiet setting she preferred.

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