Lot 285
Jo-Ann Lowney (American, b. 1948). "Sugar & Cream" oil on panel, n.d. Signed on upper left. A brilliant still life painting by award-winning American artist Jo-Ann Lowney. The composition features a sugar bowl and creamer, each one placed upon a woven table covering of vibrant vermilion, chocolate brown, spring green, amber, and petal pink hues. Lowney masterfully rendered the contrasting surfaces of these objects - the nubbiness of the textile, the cool smoothness of the silver, and the natural grain of the wooden handles. What's more, Lowney brilliantly captured the reflections of the nearby windows on the gleaming silver vessels. This wonderful painting is set in a custom wooden frame of complementary silver hues. Size of painting: 8.9" L x 10.125" W (22.6 cm x 25.7 cm) Size of frame: 12.75" L x 14" W (32.4 cm x 35.6 cm)
Biography: "Jo-Ann Lowney was born in 1948 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As a child she lived in Europe, spent her high school years in Miami and in her twenties moved to Portland, Maine where she attended the Main College of Art. She then studied five years with the National Academician, Frank Mason, at The Art Student's League of New York. The atmosphere of the League was as formative for Lowney as it was for so many artists, their ghosts haunt it still, Pollock, lumbering around as a busboy in the school's cafeteria, was very aware of visits from Arshile Gorky, who had once taught at the league and still dropped by for coffee. Painters like Rothko, Robert Henri, Georgia O'Keeffe, Reginald Marsh were all students there. Lowney met her husband, painter Joel Coplin while attending the League classes in New York City. Since 1986, they have made their home and studios at the East Side Art artist's community in Mesa, Arizona.
In 1995 Jo-Ann Lowney was awarded the Visual Art Fellowship in Two Dimensional Media by the Arizona Commission on the Arts. In 1996 she was awarded an Artists in Residency Grant by the Arizona Commission on the Arts for the mural project, A History of Superstition Mountain." (Artist's Website)
Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010
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- Condition: Signed by the artist at the upper left (incised into the paint). Minute nick to upper edge of painting that is difficult to see. Scuffs to frame as shown. Title and signature handwritten on verso. Label from Leslie Levy Gallery of Scottsdale, Arizona on verso as well. Suspension hardware on verso of frame, so painting is ready to display.
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