Elder Art Gallery:"New York, My Home" Retrospective of Paintings by New York artist Joseph Greenberg

Elder Art Gallery presents

"New York, My Home"
Retrospective of Paintings by New York artist
Joseph Greenberg

Opening date: Friday, January 16, 2004

Joseph Greenberg has been painting in and around the city of New York for more than forty years. His Charlotte debut features paintings that capture the edginess of the city that he has called home since his birth in 1926.

His paintings of the New York skyline are tough, like the city, and saturated with light. His portrayal of the city via thick applications of paint creates the sense that the artist has become one with the city that never sleeps.

Featured in the exhibition will be paintings from Greenberg's personal collection. Included will be familiar scenes from Times Square, Manhattan, Union Square as well as nightscapes of the city to include the World Trade Center which was painted in 1987.

In addition, paintings from the artist's travels to Holland and the northeast region of the United States will be on display.

New York, My Home will open on January 16th and run through February 28, 2004.

Elder Art Gallery presents

"Four Seasons"
by
Leon Makielski (1885-1974)

January 2 – February 5, 2004

Elder Art Gallery is pleased to offer a selection of landscape paintings by Leon A. Makielski which were executed in France and in the United States over his long career of painting.

Four Seasons features paintings in watercolor and oils that reflect the different seasons of the year. Mr. Makielski’s passion for landscape painting is reflected in his paintings of the agrarian countryside in Europe and especially in the mid-western and northeastern regions of the United States. While a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, Makielski spent the summer months at the Eagle’s Nest Camp, an art colony in Oregon, Illinois situated west of Chicago. A number of paintings completed at Eagle’s Nest Camp will be included in the exhibition.

Makielski earned many of the annual awards given at Indiana, Michigan and Illinois art exhibitions, and his paintings also received honors from the Detroit Art Institute, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the St. Louis Museum of Art. He is included in The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and his work was shown in Paris at The Salon of 1911 and The Salon of 1912. He died at his studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1974 at the age of 89.

Makielski was included in William Gerdts’ book, Monet’s Giverny: An Impressionist Colony (New York: Abbeville, 1993), p. 218, 260.

Four Seasons will be on exhibition in the Vintage Gallery at Elder Art Gallery in Charlotte’s Historic South End District through February 5th.

Elder Art Gallery
1427 South Boulevard
Charlotte, North Carolina 28203
Phone: 704-370-6337
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