Peter Quidley Retrospective

Peter Quidley: Retrospective Past and Present Sumer 2018 Nantucket, MA

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Quidley

Fine Art

- Nantucket - Naples - Westport -

“Peter Quidley: Retrospective” Solo Artist Exhibition

Quidley & Company - Nantucket, MA Opening June 28, 2018 For the first time in the gallery’s thirteen year history there will be an exhibition for one of its foundational artists, Peter Quidley. The show will include new paintings, and a collection of older works dating as far back as 1976. The evolution of the artist’s style and subject is on full display in this all encompassing retrospective.

About the Artist Peter Quidley was born on Boston’s Beacon Hill in 1945. Though he studied drawing throughout his college years, Quidley is largely a self-taught painter. Working as a professional artist for more than four decades, his goal has been to create paintings of beauty and enduring quality. Over the course of his career, Quidley gravitated toward a subtle narrative form, depicting peaceful and serene scenes, redolent of mystery, mischief, and simple innocence.

Quidley’s characteristic style involves stripping his paintings of subject matter, iconography or clothing styles that place his scenes in a particular era; in so doing, the artist imbues his paintings with a sense of timelessness. He demonstrates a deep respect for the classical painting tradition through his practices of painting on panel, grinding his own pigments and choosing gold leaf water gilded frames. In a uniquely personal gesture, he often affixes to the back of a finished piece the brushes used to create the painting.

According to one critic, “The first thing you notice about Peter Quidley’s oil paintings is the shimmering, lustrous character of the light which seems to radiate from the inside out, as if each picture is infused with its own individual incandescence.”

Quidley’s work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions nationwide and internationally, and in solo shows across Massachusetts, including the Cape Museum of Fine Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Cahoon Museum of American Art. He holds the distinction of Copley Master, and is a member of numerous artistic societies. The artist is a renowned portraitist and does select work on commission. His works are in private collections around the world.

Abstract, 1976

oil on canvas, 32 x 48 inches

Enchantment, 1984

oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches

Three Ladies on the Beach, 1985 oil on canvas, 26 x 30 inches

Little Dippers, 1985

oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches

Big Dippers, 1986

oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches

Woman at the Easel, 1987 oil on canvas, 236 x 48 inches

Daydream, 1987

oil on canvas, 26 x 30 inches

Hidden Forrest, 1988 oil on canvas, 30 x 26 inches

The Swing, 1988

oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches

Wisteria, 1989

oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

Nantucket Landscape, 1989 oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches

Testing the Waters, 1990 oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches

The Balcony, 1990

oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

Last Look, 1990

oil on canvas, 17 x 15 inches

The Rose Cottage, 1990 oil on canvas, 10 x 14 inches

Melodian Practice, 1990 oil on canvas, 9 x 12 inches

The Hammock, 1991 oil on canvas, 26 x 24 inches

Lamplight, 1992

oil on panel, 18 x 12 inches

The Return, 2001

oil on panel, 24 x 30 inches

Stars, 2006/2018

oil on panel, 20 x 24 inches

The Sketch, 2006

oil on panel, 20 x 24 inches

Warm Thoughts, 2011 oil on panel, 18 x 24 inches

A Boat, 2014

oil on panel, 24 x 36 inches

Nova, 2014

oil on panel, 15 x 15 inches

Iolite, 2014

oil on panel, 14 x 11 inches

Another Time (Stillness), 2016 oil on panel, 18 x 10 inches

This Side Up, 2017

oil on panel, 24 x 36 inches

The Rubber Ducker, 2017 oil on panel, 22 x 28 inches