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Joe Vinson received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida and a diploma in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  He has taught classes in both painting and drawing at the Museum School and at Cooper Union in NYC.  Joe brings to Etruscan Places a broad range of experience with a wide variety of painting methods and styles.  

Joe has paintings at:

Phyllis Lucas Gallery, 235 East 60th Street, New York, New York ( Telephone: 212 755 1516) 

Walker's, 1708 E. Sixth Ave, Denver, CO 80218.  (Telephone: 303 331 0906)

 

Artist Statement: Outdoor oil sketches as first practiced in the late 18th century in Italy, a sanctioned exercise for advanced academic training for the landscape genre, was the gateway to all modernist painting.  As an abstract painter, I find that this type of exercise returns me to my historical roots and refreshes my vision while keeping in shape my hand and eyes.. The works shown below were all painted outside in front of the subject using oil paint on canvas or paper.  They were all painted between 2005 and 2009.  The paintings vary in size from a maximum of 24" x 30"  to a minimum of 5.5" x 5.5" .  For direct purchase information you may click here. 

 

This first group of paintings, are all either 22x30 or 24x30 on either paper or prepared cotton canvas. To view the slideshow click on the individual Images, mouse over slide to use navigation to go to next slide and continue until you reach the end of the group. 

 

Oaks Montalcino 22x30 oil/paper. Cemetary Montalcino 22x30 oil/paper Provence 22x30 oil/paper Provence 22x30 oil/paper Autumn Afternoon Montalcino Church at Campriano 22x30 oil on paper 2007
Oaks Montalcino North 24x30in088 Oaks Montalcino South24x30in08 Ombrone oil/canvas 24x30in 2007 Ponte Cemento 24x30 oil/canvas 2009 Oak at Poggireliano am 24x30in Il Pozzo a Sodole

     

Here are some sketches done in preparation for our Museum of Palm Springs course in March 2009.  

 
Afternoon Under the Palms Indian Canyons Afternoon Palms Indian Canyons AM Indian Canyons Last Light Indian Canyons
Andreas Canyon Palms Morning Shadow Palm Springs Indian Canyons South 5x7in oc 3-25-2009 Whitewater by the River Whitewater Cliffs
These modest sized works, some as small as five inches, were painted in Italy in and around Buonconvento and in Lazio.

 
Maritime Pines, 5x5in oil/paper 200 Piana: Pines and Poplars 5x5in 2008 Civita Castellana 5x5in 2008 Sodole Autumn Afternoon, 6x9in oil/paper 2008 Near Casale del Bosco 6x9in oil/paper 2008 Monte Oliveto from Chiusure 6x9in oil/paper 2007
Near Abbida Ardenga oil/paper 2007 Piana towards Bounconvento oil/paper 2007 Centro Storico Buonconvento oil/paper 2008 Castello de Bibbiano 10x14in oil/paper 2008 Salicotti 10x14in oil/paper 2009 Atomium in renovation