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NAIVE AMERICAN WATERCOLOR OF NEW YORK CITY browse these categories for related items... Directory: Fine Art:Paintings:Watercolor: Pre 1970: Item # 568232
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| CAROLYN TYSON. "East River 'City Lights.'" Watercolor on laid paper, 11 7/8" x 17 3/4" (sheet and image), a winter scene with snow falling, two boats on the river, pedestrians (or perhaps, people skating) under what appears to be a decorated tree, the spires of a church behind the tree, the church flanked by other tall buildings of varying heights, a number of trees in the park-like mid-ground, the composition in green, purple, yellow, brown and red; signed ("Carolyn Tyson") and dated ("'66") in ink, lower left. A few pinholes in the corners of the sheet; old tape remains to a width of 3/16" - 1/4" around most of the edge of the sheet, verso. Unframed. The title is derived from the backboard of a frame that formerly held the watercolor. The artist's charmingly naive manner is displayed to good advantage here: the simplified, blocky, not quite squared up buildings, the statically arranged, stick-like figures, the boats rendered as bulks in outline sitting on the water. The white representing the falling snow is applied via a variety of techniques (dots, splatters, streaks, smudges) and with sufficient liberality (to the water, even) to suggest that a window exists between the viewer and the scene. The largely purple and green palette adds to the curious, deliciously atmospheric effect. The artist's "Ten Years: Poetry and Painting" was published in 1972. The biography there states, "Carolyn Tyson...has exhibited at her Gainsborough Studio and at Lesley Frost's gallery in New York City; at Guild Hall, East Hampton and Southampton Art Gallery on Long Island; her Carmel Valley Gallery, Beverly Hills, and the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art...Abroad at the Grovesnor, London, and the Roger Washbourne Gallery, Bath...as well as the Fishbacher, Paris. She was born in Southampton, Long Island, and brought up in historic Second House, Montauk. Carolyn Tyson lived for twelve years in Carmel, California, where a neighbor, the poet Robinson Jeffers, greatly encouraged her work. She is a member of the Kearsage Group in Napeague and the Institute of Modern Art, New York. She has studied with Victor D'Amico and at the Cunningham Institute, California. Her work is in the Jaffa Museum, Israel, and in The Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York permanent collections." | ||||||
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