Selina Numina (N/A) Contemporary,
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Image Size: 40” x 24”
Signature: Signed verso
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SELINA NUMINA KAPRINA – Kaytetye Artist from Utopia region
Selina went to primary school at Stirling Station in the north Utopia region near Tennant Creek. Her mother’s homelands. Selina as with her sisters and brothers were sent to boarding school in Darwin as no secondary schooling was available in Tennant Creek of Alice Springs.
Selina currently resides in Darwin but regularly visits her Country.
Selina and her sisters, and mother, come from a long line of desert painters of the contemporary Aboriginal art and dot-dot central desert movement from well renowned painter aunties: Gloria and Kathleen Petyerre, who are well established artists in Alice Springs.
The Bush Medicine Leaves Dreaming knowledge story is a popular theme of the Numina Sisters. Many women from the Peytre, Mambitji and Numina family name hold custody of the story and knowledge keepers of painting series-themes such as Bush Medicine Leaves, Bush Tucker, Seeded, Soakage, Women’ s Ceremony etc – in common with other skin groups across the vast arid creek beds and red sand of central Australia.
Subjects of importance in the theme-series painted are various bush tucker. Plant foods include wild berries, plums, onion, yam, seeds etc. Many animals can be depicted as food source or as totems such as Thorny Devil Lizard and Dingo Tracks.
Women’s Ceremony, Awelye Body Art Ceremony are mostly painted by senior ladies but younger women need to know it from a young age. Some themes such as Bush Tucker can be open and universal others can be secret and or significant cultural ceremonies.
Knowing, carrying and reinforcing these stories gives respect for Country and ancestors and shows responsibility and care of holding such stories to keep the stories and traditional practices alive. The knowledge must be retold repeatedly and handed on.
The Numina Sisters have all been taught to paint by their earlier elder painter grandmothers, mother-auntys, and cousin-sisters connected across the Central Desert region. Their mother’s and grandmother’s Country is in the bush and remote Stirling Station. Their father is from Utopia community side.
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Francis Colburn (1909-1984)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 36” x 29”
Frame Size: 42” x 35”
Signature: Signed lower right
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Born in Vermont, and beginning his professional life as a highschool teacher, Colburn developed his painting skills at the Art Students League in NYC in the mid-1930’s. He soon returned to northern Vermont where he remained for the rest of his life.
For many years he taught at, and was chairman of, the Art History Department of the University of Vermont. His styles developed from the “social realism” of the 1930’s to his own form of cubism and surrealism, as expressed in his portraits, landscapes and still life of his native Vermont.
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Rolf Scarlett (1889-1984)
Medium: Mixed media
Image Size: 11” x 8.5”
Frame Size: 20” x 17”
Signature: Signed lower left
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Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1889, he left Canada at the age of 18 to go to New York City and returned to Canada during the years of World War I. However, by 1924 he had established New York City as his home. While he was beginning his career as an abstract painter, he was designing stage scenery for George Bernard Shaw’s play, Man and Superman and for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.
In 1939, while in the process of creating the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), Director Hilla Rebay began to take an interest in Scarlett’s work. By 1940 he had become the new museum’s chief lecturer.
By 1953, the Guggenheim owned nearly sixty of his paintings and monoprints. He later became a resident of the Woodstock art colony for more than twenty-five years and showed his work in the Woodstock exhibits.
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John Clague (1928-2004)
Sculpture size 14 x 12"
Medium: Bronze and stainless steel on composition base
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John Clague studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA with honors, 1956) under Edris Eckhardt, Walter Sinz, Walter Midner, John Bergschneider, Julius Schmidt, and William McVey. As a fourth-year student he was awarded a Yale/Norfolk Fellowship and upon graduation, spent an eye-opening year in Europe as a Catherwood Foundation Traveling Fellow. His career was spent teaching sculpture at Oberlin College and the Cleveland Institute of Art. Before retiring in 1971, Clague became the chairman of the Department of Sculpture for the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Clague’s sculptures have been exhibited in the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture and in twenty eight May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He is represented in the permanent collections of the CMA (six sculptures including his 1960 bronze Flower of Erebus and his 1963 Plexiglas Progression in Black and White), the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the University of Massachusetts, and the Williams College Museum of Art. His work is documented in the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and represented in The Sculpture of the End of the 19th and the 20th Centuries (Éditions Rencontre, Paris, 1966/67). John Clague is best known for his monumental sculptures – bold, airy, and abstract forms in bronze, steel, and fiberglass. He used light to play with the surfaces of his sculptures, using black and white, multiple colors, and occasionally polished them to a shine.
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Anthony Russell (N/A) Contemporary,
Polish Church
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Image Size: 30” x 45”
Signature: Signed lower left
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Anthony Russell was born in London and graduated with a degree in
graphic design from Hornsey College of Art. This was an institution with a
very broad range of disciplines in the graphic and fine arts. He studied
drawing, lithography, etching, typography, painting and sculpture. Between
studies, Tony worked as a sign painter, silk screen printer and early morning
milk deliveryman. He spent one summer working, Michelangelo-like, as part
of a team repainting the ceiling of the main hall of Horace Walpole’s
Strawberry Hill House. One time he was ignominiously rejected as a Paint-by-
Numbers demonstrator at a trade fair in Earl’s Court. He was also an avid
weekend cyclist, competing in local road races and touring England and
France.
He served in the Royal Engineers for two years as mandated at that time
(you would not consider him a military man). As part of a mobile map making
squadron in Germany, he continued to draw and paint and traveled
extensively throughout Europe when time permitted. Back home and after
three years of freelance designing and teaching, he was married to his wife,
Jean. David Hockney also taught briefly at the same art college in Maidstone,
Kent.
Tony then emigrated to the New York. After a period of freelancing, he
founded Russell Design, an award-winning design firm, with a roster
of clients that included corporations, cultural institutions and non-profits,
both domestic and international. He became president of the American
Institute of Graphic Arts, promoting the profession while increasing the
membership from a small group of New Yorkers into a national organization
that today has a membership of over 25,000 designers and educators. He
taught design at NYU and Cooper Union.
In 2008, his company became the branding and environmental graphics
associate of Perkins Eastman, New York’s largest architectural firm.
On retiring in 2020, he built a studio in the roof of his 1836 Captain’s House
in in historic South Jamesport on the North Fork of Long Island. This is a
permanent residence although the Russells also maintain a
New York City apartment. After a long and successful career as a graphic
designer, Tony now considers himself a full-time artist dedicated to painting,
drawing and practicing photography in earnest. As you look at his work, his
painting influences are obvious although when questioned, he would give
special thanks to Juan Gris for his most inventive Cubism; to Georges Braque
for his quiet lyricism while Señor P did his fireworks; to Stuart Davis for his
use of signs and typography in painting; to
Ron Kitaj for his evocative mix of figurative and abstraction and lastly,
especially to David Hockney for his marvelous drawings, printmaking and for
killing one point perspective.
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Christine Guarino () Contemporary,
After the Storm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 55” x 56”
Signature: Signed lower right
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Christine Guarino is a contemporary Hudson artist. She has been an abstract painter since 1982, however she has had a history of painting with more traditional techniques between 1970-1980. She has studied at The Hartford Art School, The Silvermine Guilf School, Russell Sage College and SUNY College at Buffalo. Since the early 1980’s, Guarino has exhibited extensively throughout the North Eastern United States and has received several awards for her works. She has worked under Frank Stella, Grance Hartigan and Robert Motherwell.
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Christine Guarino () Contemporary,
Many Doors
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 54” x 60”
Signature: Signed verso
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Christine Guarino is a contemporary Hudson artist. She has been an abstract painter since 1982, however she has had a history of painting with more traditional techniques between 1970-1980. She has studied at The Hartford Art School, The Silvermine Guilf School, Russell Sage College and SUNY College at Buffalo. Since the early 1980’s, Guarino has exhibited extensively throughout the North Eastern United States and has received several awards for her works. She has worked under Frank Stella, Grance Hartigan and Robert Motherwell.
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