JANE PIPER FOUR DECADES OF PAINTING December 10 to January 21, 2017
Poppies by a Victorian Mirror, 1965 reworked in 1982, oil on canvas, 38" x 44"
Still Life with Vegetable Platter, 1991 Oil on Canvas 40 x 44
Second - Orange on Plate, 1965, oil on canvas, 36" x 42"
Fruit and Flowers,c.1974, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 40" x60"
Half a Black Urn, 1987, oil on paper, 40" x 30"
Poppies by a Park, c. 1971, reworked 1991, acrylic on canvas, 44" x 40"
Untitled, 1961, oil on canvas, 28" x34"
Untitled, c.1974, 1991, oil over acrylic, 40" x 24"
Yellow Abstraction, 1957-58 Oil on Canvas 28 x34
Untitled, 1981, Oil on Canvas
Still Life with Flowers, 1961, Oil on Canvas
Abstraction with Fruit, circa 1950, oil on canvas
Public Collections
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown Pa. Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Ar.
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, N.C. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Butler Institute Museum of Art, Youngstown, Oh. Carnegie Institute of American Art, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington De. Hollins University, Roanoke, Va. Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, South Hadley Ma. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, N.Y.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ma National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC New Jersey State Museum, Trenton N.J.
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, N.J. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Ma. Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pa. The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pa. Western Caroline University, Cullowhee, N.C. West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, W.V. Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Ks. Woodmere Art Museum, Phila, Pa.
The Schmidt/Dean Gallery is proud to present the work of the Philadelphia Master Painter Jane Piper. I had the pleasure of knowing Jane when I worked at Mangel Gallery during the 1980’s. I had helped introduced the work to the gallery, after her departure from Gross McCleaf Gallery. Over the years, my understanding of Jane’s work has grown, as has my understanding of the elements that make a great painting. It was in the early 80’s when I first became aware of her work. I was struck by the intellectual nature of the painting; the subject matter portrayed a beauty and an ease. Her brush strokes, line, color and structure took me years to understand and then see the grace of the effort and toil flowing above and below the painting surface. There was a time when a group of painters working in Philadelphia painted what they wanted. For a few, they worked outside of the trends of the day. As a young art assistant, I tended to believe the influential art magazine rather than my eyes. The world of art has many masters, (money, connections, success) most of them false. A well-educated eye is the only true master from which to learn. Jane Piper’s painting are full of those important lessons. Taking the best of what has come before, and knowing who and what that is. Using skill and craft to make the problematic look effortless. Knowing color and knowing its subversive properties, to name a few. I hope students get a chance to see this unique Philadelphia painter, “and enjoy speculating about the many artists that were taught and influenced by Ms. Piper”
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