Scott Prior Exhibition of new paintings
July 8 - 25, 2016 Quidley & Company - Nantucket
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Scott Prior Cabin in the Dunes oil on panel 22 x 16 inches $15,000
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Scott Prior
(American, b. 1949) Scott Prior is a Contemporary Realist painter who lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he has been a resident since 1971. His paintings depict a world that is intimate, simple and personal, where objects are transfixed and transfigured by light. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he received a BFA in printmaking from the University of Massachusetts in 1971. He has artwork in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the DeCordova Museum, the Danforth Museum, the Rose Art Museum and other major public and private collections. He has shown extensively in one-person and group shows in the United States and abroad; in 2001 he had a mid-career retrospective at the DeCordova Museum. “It wasn’t until I saw a lot of Edward Hopper’s paintings in one place that I recognized the significance and emotional power of light. That was thirty years ago, and I am still fascinated by the varied and countless effects of light on the tangible world of my experience. In the same year as my discovery of light I changed from being an ironic observer into an emotional participant.” Scott Prior “The light in his paintings has an expressive quality that is rarely seen in photorealistic works. ... (Prior) goes beyond mere hyperrealist bravura and concentrates instead on crafting visual poetry. His enamel smooth surface of his oil on panels erases the hand of the artist and focuses instead on the artist’s eye. The many visual delights, especially his quasi-surreal luminosity of the paintings are more than enough to make great paintings but he goes even further; to what Scott Prior has put it, “discovering the spiritual in the everyday” that gives the artist his power to speak to us of common experience.” - Larry Groff, paintingperceptions.com “Scott Prior is a realist painter of prodigious talent and consummate skill. But what raises his work beyond the beauty of its presentation is this most romantic vision, a belief that love and laughter lie just beneath the surface of the mundane. He is a conjurer, stirring magic from the ordinary.” - Richard Morange, Scott Prior: New Paintings
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Scott Prior Cabin, Provincetown Harbor, Sunset
oil on panel 12 x 11 inches $7,500
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Boston • 38 Newbury Street • 617.450.4300 Nantucket • 26 Main Street • 508.228.4300 Naples • 375 Broad Ave South • 239.261.4300 QuidleyAndCo.com
Scott Prior Couple on the Beach at Sunset oil on panel 24 x 36 inches $24,000
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Boston • 38 Newbury Street • 617.450.4300 Nantucket • 26 Main Street • 508.228.4300 Naples • 375 Broad Ave South • 239.261.4300 QuidleyAndCo.com
Scott Prior Window Still Life oil on panel 34 x 24 inches $30,000
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Scott Prior Sunset Over the Bay oil on panel 26 x 10 inches $13,500
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Scott Prior Valley in Winter oil on canvas 58 x 50 inches $75,000
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Scott Prior Cows at Sunrise
oil on panel 10 x 26 inches $13,500
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Boston • 38 Newbury Street • 617.450.4300 Nantucket • 26 Main Street • 508.228.4300 Naples • 375 Broad Ave South • 239.261.4300 QuidleyAndCo.com
Scott Prior Humpty oil on panel 12 x 9 inches $4,800
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Boston • 38 Newbury Street • 617.450.4300 Nantucket • 26 Main Street • 508.228.4300 Naples • 375 Broad Ave South • 239.261.4300 QuidleyAndCo.com
Scott Prior Cabin in the Dunes oil on panel 22 x 16 inches $15,000
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Boston • 38 Newbury Street • 617.450.4300 Nantucket • 26 Main Street • 508.228.4300 Naples • 375 Broad Ave South • 239.261.4300 QuidleyAndCo.com
Scott Prior Nanny in the Garden oil on panel 54 x 38 inches $65,000
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Boston • 38 Newbury Street • 617.450.4300 Nantucket • 26 Main Street • 508.228.4300 Naples • 375 Broad Ave South • 239.261.4300 QuidleyAndCo.com
Scott Prior Sunrise on the Lake oil on panel 24 x 22 inches $24,000
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Boston • 38 Newbury Street • 617.450.4300 Nantucket • 26 Main Street • 508.228.4300 Naples • 375 Broad Ave South • 239.261.4300 QuidleyAndCo.com
Scott Prior Bonfire on the River oil on panel 24 x 36 inches $24,000
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Boston • 38 Newbury Street • 617.450.4300 Nantucket • 26 Main Street • 508.228.4300 Naples • 375 Broad Ave South • 239.261.4300 QuidleyAndCo.com
Scott Prior Bonfires on Muir Beach oil on panel 10 x 17 inches $8,500
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Boston • 38 Newbury Street • 617.450.4300 Nantucket • 26 Main Street • 508.228.4300 Naples • 375 Broad Ave South • 239.261.4300 QuidleyAndCo.com
Scott Prior Red Ball oil on panel 6 x 6 inches $2,500
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Boston • 38 Newbury Street • 617.450.4300 Nantucket • 26 Main Street • 508.228.4300 Naples • 375 Broad Ave South • 239.261.4300 QuidleyAndCo.com
Scott Prior Chairs in Winter oil on panel 6 x 6 inches $2,500
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Boston • 38 Newbury Street • 617.450.4300 Nantucket • 26 Main Street • 508.228.4300 Naples • 375 Broad Ave South • 239.261.4300 QuidleyAndCo.com
Scott Prior Cabin in the Dunes oil on panel 22 x 16 inches $15,000
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Boston • 38 Newbury Street • 617.450.4300 Nantucket • 26 Main Street • 508.228.4300 Naples • 375 Broad Ave South • 239.261.4300 QuidleyAndCo.com