STUDIO WINDOW BARBARA McILRATH
September 11 - October 16, 2021
BARBARA McILRATH
Barbara McIlrath has been looking out her studio windows onto the fields and hills of the Driftless Region of Western Wisconsin over the past year as she sheltered in place on her farm in Pepin. She draws, paints and collages the shapes of landforms and still life arrangements in her light-filled, barn studio. Growing up just outside of Chicago, Barbara earned her BA degree in Humanities at Illinois Wesleyan University, MS degree at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and BFA degree at Minneapolis College of Art & Design, where she received the Vanderlip Award at graduation. She has worked as a graphic designer, illustrator, instructional designer for Mayo Clinic, corporate training consultant and faculty member at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
ARTIST STATEMENT I began this series of paintings on November 5, 2020, as the national political drama erupted and even affected our little community in rural Wisconsin. I found refuge within my barn studio full of objects of visual delight, including brushes and paint. Gratitude from being in the old, solid structure on our land flows through the work. I have pondered random arrangements of giant geraniums in terracotta pots, stacks of art books and tulips from Clementine, my friend’s flower shop. Through conversations with Matisse, Morandi, Bonnard and Vuillard, who made warm, sensuous paintings of their homes and studios during wartime, I was encouraged to surprise myself with new palettes and ways of composing the forms of my own spaces. These are the resulting “foreground” paintings, looking both inward and outward, but not too far away.
- Barbara McIlrath
November - Studio Window gouache on panel 2020 $900.00 image: 8 x 10" | frame: 16.25 x 18"
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December - Studio Window gouache on panel 2020 $2,800.00 image: 24 x 24” | frame: 25.5 x 25.5"
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April - Studio Dance (Steely Dan FM) oil on linen 2021 $2,800.00 image: 24 x 24" | frame: 25 x 25.5"
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June - Transplants gouache on panel 2021 $2,000.00 image: 15.75 x 20.5" | frame: 17 x 21"
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July - Spruce Meditation oil & beeswax on panel 2021 $1,800.00 image: 16 x 20" | frame: 18 x 24"
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April - Hicks Valley Farm gouache on paper 2021 $750.00 image: 7.75 x 5.5" | frame: 13.25 x 15.25"
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May - Springtime Elevation oil and cold wax on linen panel $8,100.00 image: 34 x 74" | unframed
November - Self Portrait oil on linen 2020 $1,000.00 image: 10 x 8" | frame: 18.25 x 16"
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December - Studio Light oil on linen 2020 $900.00 image: 8 x 10" | frame: 16.25 x 18"
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April - Inside, Outside Studio oil on panel 2021 $2,800.00 image: 18 x 24" | frame: 19.25 x 25.25"
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February - Tea for Me, Evening oil on paper 2021 $750.00 image: 10.5 x 14" | frame: 12 x 15.5"
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February - Tea for Me, Morning oil on paper 2021 $750.00 image: 10 x 14" | frame: 12 x 15.25"
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February - Tea for Two oil on paper 2021 $750.00 image: 10.5 x 14" | frame: 12 x 15.75"
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August - Tea for Me, Night Owl oil on linen panel 2021 $2,500.00 image: 16.25 x 20.25" | frame: 17.25 x 21.25"
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May - Sunny Saturday Afternoon gouache on panel 2021 $1,250.00 image: 12 x 16" | frame: 13.5 x 17.25"
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May - Rainy Sunday Afternoon gouache on panel 2021 $1,500.00 image: 12 x 24" | frame: 13.75 x 25.5"
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January - Spruce Family gouache on panel 2020 $900.00 image: 8 x 10" | frame: 16.25 x 18"
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March - Left Window, Looking Outside collaged ink wash on watercolor paper 2021 $700.00 image: 10 x 8" | frame: 14.75 x 12.5"
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March - Center Window, Looking Outside collaged ink wash on watercolor paper 2021 $700.00 image: 10 x 8" | frame: 14.75 x 12.5"
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March - Right Window, Looking Outside collaged ink wash on watercolor paper 2021 $700.00 image: 10 x 8" | frame: 14.75 x 12.5"
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January - Spruce Meditation gouache on panel 2021 $1,050.00 image: 16 x 13.5" | frame: 17 x 14.5"
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May - Mother's Day Bouquet oil on linen 2021 $3,000.00 image: 30 x 30" | frame: 31 x 31"
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April - Cottonwood Emergence gouache on panel 2021 $900.00 image: 8 x 10" | frame: 15.75 x 18"
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