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On View: 'Sylvia Snowden: Painting Humanity' Features Abstracted Portraits Thick With Paint and Rich With Color at UK's Hepworth Wakefield
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On View: ‘Sylvia Snowden: Painting Humanity’ Features Abstracted Portraits Thick With Paint and Rich With Color at UK’s Hepworth Wakefield

by Victoria L. Valentine on Jul 5, 2024 • No Comments
SYLVIA SNOWDEN, “Beverly Johnson,” 1978 (acrylic and oil pastel on Masonite, 121.9 x 243.8 cm). | © Sylvia Snowden. Courtesy Edel Assanti and Franklin Parrasch Gallery. Photo by Andy Keate   On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions   WASHINGTON, D.C. ARTIST Sylvia Snowden (b. 1942) is presenting her first solo institutional exhibition in Europe....
'Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life,' First Major Exhibition of Jamaican British Modernist Charts His Place in Art History
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‘Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life,’ First Major Exhibition of Jamaican British Modernist Charts His Place in Art History

by Victoria L. Valentine on Jun 20, 2024 • No Comments
Ronald Moody working on “Johanaan,” 1963 (shown below). | © Val Wilmer. Photoby Val Wilmer   AN EXPANSIVE LOOK at the work of Ronald Moody (1900-1984) opens this weekend at The Hepworth Wakefield in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK. Moody is one of Britain’s most highly regarded modernist sculptors. He spent time in Paris and was...

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