There are still a few works still available, view them here.

The Dreamland Theater in the heart of Nantucket town is nearing its fund-raising goals.  Help support this historic site’s renaissance as it builds for the future.

Join us Tuesday, August 17, from 5:00 – 7:30 in the Nantucket gallery to discuss the future of this historic theater with members of the Dreamland team.

10% of all sales Tuesday will go directly to the Dreamland.

To View all available artworks visit our main website here.

The Age of Adventure

100 % off the proceeds will go directly to the Children’s House School.  Raffle tickets are Tickets are available now and only 300 will be sold.  Continue for details, and to see the painting.

Dear friends, family and colleagues,

I have had the pleasure of serving on the Board of Directors of the Children’s House of Nantucket for the past year. It is a remarkable Montessori school here on the island. My daughter Olivia will be starting there this upcoming school year, and her sister Lilah will follow in two years.

In an effort to maintain affordable tuition for local families, our development committee hosts several annual fundraising events, of which, I am chairing this unique raffle. Tim Thompson, one of the best known, talented and sought after marine artists in the world has donated a signature oil painting. His generosity and enthusiasm has been inspiring. Quidley & Company has been instrumental from the beginning, donated a beautiful gold leaf frame and will host the drawing on October 23rd. They too have been remarkably generous with their time and resources in an effort to help a worthy local cause.

This is a terrific opportunity to help a great Nantucket non-profit program. Your gift affords you a chance at winning a spectacular original oil painting with a $15,000 retail value. Additionally, there are a dozen signed prints also donated by the artist for runners-up.

Any support for The Children’s House is greatly appreciated. All checks should be made out to: “Montessori Children’s House of Nantucket” and sent to me or the gallery, who can also take credit cards. See below for details.

I hope this overture finds you and your families well. Thank you for the time you have already allotted me and any further consideration.

Very best regards,

"Nantucket Sunshine" oil on panel

Artist Peter T. Quidley has been featured in the latest edition of the American Society of Marine Artists quarterly journal.

His career is profiled in great detail.  Although an ASMA member, he is best known for his figurative paintings.

Continue on to view a PDF of the article.

View the article here – Quidley-ASMA SPRING 2010

ASMA official website - The American Society of Marine Artists

Quidley & Company also represent these ASMA members:

William R Davis, Fellow/ASMA

Donald Demers, Fellow/ASMA

William P. Duffy, Fellow/ASMA

Leonard Mizerek, Fellow/ASMA

Sergio Roffo, Fellow/ASMA

Click here for full details.

Brazilian Artist Renato Meziat is now being represented by Quidley & Company art gallery in Boston, MA.  Continue on to view available paintings, and learn about the artist.

Quidley & Company is proud to present Brazilian artist Renato Pereira da Silvia Meziat.  This extraordinary painter, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1952, first came to the United States in the 1970s to study music at the renowned Berklee College of Music here in Boston. On the transformation from musician to painter, Meziat says, “By that time my father used to paint on the weekends and I tried to do something with his colors. It was just for fun but the first paintings came out so well that I kept going.” It soon became clear as he experimented with his father’s materials that Meziat had not only a natural aptitude for painting but a love for it as well. Soon, he had switched his focus from music to painting.

Essentially a self-taught painter, Meziat’s technical proficiency is all the more impressive for being the result of years of trial and error and intense observation. Training his eye, Meziat began to look at the work of other painters, gravitating early on to the new Latin-American Realism that developed in the 1970s, represented by the Chilean Claudio Bravo, the Cuban-American Julio Larraz and others. Through these contemporary artists Meziat found contact with the great Realist line of Spanish art reaching back to Velasquez and the Bodegòn (still life) painters.

Meziat has in the past worked in a variety of genres, specializing at times in portraits and cityscapes as well as still lifes, but it the latter for which he has been most recognized. Two distinct bodies of work within this group have developed: in one, the paintings are distinguished by the elegant simplicity of the settings and coolly illuminated light backgrounds, in the other, objects are set in classical arrangements against pure deep monochromatic backgrounds. In all of his still life paintings, Meziat sees and allows us to see with a transforming luminous clarity.

Renato Meziat’s paintings reveal an immense technical ability allied to a penetrating pictorial intelligence. For all their evident precision and skill, the painter is not interested in viewers appreciating that aspect for its own sake. He wants his work to affect people the way his first artistic love, music, does.  He says, “I don’t want to make people think. I want to make paintings so beautiful that when people see them they just can’t think of anything else.”

Renato Meziat’s first solo exhibition was in 1980 in Rio de Janeiro and was followed by many exhibitions throughout Brazil. Although his work has only recently been introduced to North America, his paintings have already had great success in International auctions. His paintings are in private collections throughout North and South America. Hammer Galleries presented Renato Meziat’s first New York one-man exhibition in September 2006.  Quidley & Company is pleased to introduce Meziat to Boston and Nantucket collectors beginning spring 2010.

We are pleased to release our schedule of exhibitions, shows, and events.

We have four solo exhibitions, one huge group show, and will be exhibiting at three venues outside the gallery.

Greenwich Concours d’Elegance

June 4 – 6 –Roger Sherman Baldwin Park, Greenwich, CT

Quidley & Company will again present a selection of contemporary masterworks of traditional painting at this world famous auto exhibition and auction.

In Good Company

June 11 – 30 – Boston Gallery

Quidley & Company presents the biggest gallery show of the year.  Each of our artists will be represented by one outstanding painting that best exemplifies their individual talents and styles for which they are renowned.  This annual show serves as a challenge and a celebration for these artists.

Anthony Panzera – Dawn, Dusk and In Between

July 9 – 21  – Nantucket Gallery

Anthony Panzera, NA, (member of the National Academy) has been a professor of drawing at Hunter College, in Manhattan, since 1968, and is a regular contributor to American Artist Magazine.  Although primarily a figurative painter, this show focuses on a series of works examining the sea and coastline of Nantucket, a subject that has inspired and enamored him since 1978.

Michael Keane

July 23 – August 4 – Nantucket Gallery

Renowned American Marine Painter Michael Keane unveils new paintings in what has been a Nantucket tradition for over 25 years.  This show will consist of a small number of original oil paintings of coastal landscapes and yacht racing scenes for which he is recognized world-wide.

Doug Brega

August 6 – 17 – Nantucket Gallery

Master watercolorist Doug Brega captures the rich and rugged character of New England structures and people.  Brega shows us much more about his subjects than just the amazing levels of detail rendered by his brush.

Sean Beavers – Simple Treasures

August 20th  – September 5  – Nantucket Gallery

Sean Beavers is a talented young artist, rapidly gaining a national reputation for his take on contemporary realism.  His paintings cover the genres of still life, landscape, and figurative painted with traditional techniques and a contemporary feel.

Boston International Fine Art Show

November 18-21 – The Cyclorama – Boston Center for the Arts

Quidley & Company will be showing contemporary masterworks of traditional painting at this years show, which hosts forty top galleries from the US and abroad.

Around the turn of the 20th Century, an artistic movement was taking shape in Boston.  Dissatisfied with the direction of modern art, and not impressed with the over the top grandeur of the Hudson River School landscapes, a group of artists in Boston established a foundation of ideals and methods that carry on to this day.  The Boston School artists’ teachings combine the discipline and beauty of the French Academy, with the spontaneity and observational theories of impressionism.  Now 80 years old, Sid Willis is a patriarch of the tradition.

The Boston School

Benson

The Boston School’s core members where Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862 – 1938), Frank Benson (1862 – 1951), and William McGregor Paxton (1869 – 1941).  Tarbell and Benson were classmates at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  Due to their skill, they were encouraged to study in Europe.  They both studied at the Academie Julien in Paris under Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger.  Meanwhile Paxton was at the atelier of Jean-Leon Gerome in Paris, learning directly from the master.  The three men returned to Boston equipped with this classical academic training in the European tradition.  They were also exposed to and influenced by the excitement of the Impressionists work which filled the galleries.

Upon returning to Boston, they formed a tight group and painted, and eventually taught painting based on the principles of draftsmanship, classical beauty, spontaneity of observation, true color, etc.  They committed to teaching in the master and pupil, atelier tradition.

Tarbell

Paxton, Benson and Tarbell all taught at the Museum School in Boston overseeing many artists’ development, and forming what is refered to the Boston School.   One student, Ives Gammell, would prove to be the linchpin in the schools history.

R. H. Ives Gammell (1893 – 1981) is arguably the most important figure of the movement, not because of the artwork he produced, but the work he put into it.  Gammell was a student of Tarbell and Paxton, as well as Joseph DeCamp and Philip Hale.

After painting professionally for some years, Gammell took it upon himself to carry on the Boston School Tradition.  He began teaching in the 1940′s and wrote “The Twilight of Painting.”  In 1950 he opened the Gammell Studios to teach an entire generation of artists with great discipline all he knew about painting.  Gammell’s students make up this 3rd generation of Boston School Painters, of which Sidney F. Willis (b. 1930) is a part.  The group includes Robert Douglas Hunter (b. 1928), Paul Ingbretson (b. 1949), Robert Cormier (b. 1932), Richard Lack (1928-2009) and many other prominent artists who now have many well-known students of their own.

The Boston School’s artistic lineage is unparalleled in American painting leading all the way to Jacques-Louis David (1784-1825) who is the pinnacle of neoclassicism and the highest ideals of Western art.  David taught Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres who taught Paul Delaroche who taught Antoine-Jean Gros who then taught William Paxton.

Sid Willis

Trained in the Boston School tradition I was inspired by their gallant attempt to combine the vision of Vermeer with the fresh look of Monet.

Juxtaposing various toys and relics from childhood Willis creates charming narratives and playful scenes. While often times humorous, these endearing paintings are possible only because of his immense artistic talent.  Now in his eighties, Willis has fully mastered the use of color to achieve his visual goals.  Always topical, Willis here plays on modern politics as he places President Obama’s portrait upon the Prince Charming’s stead in a painting titled “Look Who’s Coming to Dinner.”

"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" 6" x 14"

August River 12" x 16" acrylic

After he graduated from the Vesper George School of Art, Willis trained under Robert Douglas Hunter.  Mr. Willis delights his viewers with luminous still lifes and impressionistic landscapes in the Boston School tradition.  He has earned the reputation of being one of the finest painters in the United States. His paintings are cited for their strong design, beautiful color harmonies and consummate draftsmanship. While Mr. Willis’ still life reflects his solid academic values, they also incorporate his keen impressionistic observations to form unusual and interesting compositions. His subjects, often rare and distinctive antiques and textiles, are carefully chosen from throughout his native New England countryside. Willis’ still lifes exhibit a unique elegance of design and achieve a closeness of color unsurpassed by any other artist today. An American Impressionist, Mr. Willis spends much of his time painting out of doors, directly from nature. New England provides Willis with a never ending supply of subjects for his landscapes. Though best known for still life, Willis has also won gold medals for landscapes and portraiture, and has been honored for paintings in oil pastel, and acrylic.

Sid Willis at the Boston Gallery's Grand Opening in 2008

In his own words …

“Dear Chris, I guess I paint because I can’t write.  Trained in the Boston School tradition I was inspired by their gallant attempt to combine the vision of Vermeer with the fresh look of Monet.  Their approach to impressionism included “the big look”.  View your subject as a visual whole.  Paint only as much detail as you must to convey the total vision.  Pay great attention to the lost and found plus check your edges.  I have always tried to add my own personal touch to painting.  I try to see as much detail as possible without losing the visual whole.  Often mistaken for a tromp painter, I am a contemporary impressionist who paints in a tight manner.  It’s not how I paint, or what I paint, it’s how I see what I paint.  I work only from life with my on look.  Subject matter doesn’t matter.  Color is all.  Ives Gammel described some painter “entranced with the visual world”.  I wish it had been me.   Sid  p.s.  I,m better on the phone.” – an email from Sidney F. Willis, March 2010

view all available works by Sid Willis here

Gary Korlin is being featured on a Minnesota television show on TPT 2 that premiers tonight.  Below is a trailer and an interesting look at the theories, desires, and motivations for the artist.  He is an impressionist in the true meaning of the term. 

Next month tpt viewers will be treated to the premiere of a new local arts series – mn original – Premiering Thursday April 22 at 7:30 PM on tpt2,  The weekly half-hour program is dedicated to showcasing the creative community of Minnesota. – http://www.mnoriginal.org/art/ 

View the video here. 

view his available works here 

"At the Water's Edge" 30" x 40"

"Mist Rising with the Sun" 24" x 30"

view all available works here 

Gary Korlin – (b. 1956) works in a decidedly French nature and the naturalistic approach is embedded in his 19th Century French Academic training, coupled with a thorough understanding of classical aesthetics and technique. He seeks an impression of life from a delicately modeled rose to the energy of a wind-swept landscape, relying continuously on his ability to create the illusion of the third dimension. From figures in darkened spaces to patterns of blown weeds in sun-drenched fields, his naturalistic eye captures the mood of the subject and the emotion it evokes. 

Gary Korlin began his art career at an early age. His formal art education began at a state college but was soon replaced with specialized training. The Minneapolis College of Art and Design offered learned mechanics of picture making through an in-depth study of perspective followed by color theory, abstract composition and elements of design. Unsettled with a career in illustration and architectural renderings, he took to traveling. While living in Australia he became aware of 19th Century Australian landscape painters. Taken by their naturalistic view and sense of reality, he returned to St. Paul and enrolled in Atelier Lack, which offered the finest training in 19th Century French Academic drawing and painting. 

After being placed in a figure drawing competition at the New York Academy of Art, he was invited to attend their 2 year program. After this, Gary took a position with Evergreene Painting Studios, a New York based mural company, which sent him to work in South Africa. It was there that the American painter met his wife-to-be and together they moved to Italy and lived in the mountains overlooking Florence, deep in the heart of Tuscany. His work in Italy was well recognized by the Marquise Della Robbia, descendent of Luca Della Robbia, the 15th century Italian sculptor. Returning to a larger studio in St. Paul, Gary continues with life-sized figure work, landscapes, still-lifes and an ever-growing demand for portraiture. Still frequenting the European scene, his paintings hang in collections in England, France, Italy and Austria. His work has been shown in San Francisco, New York, London, South Africa and France.