Still Lives from my Beacon Exhibit

Still Lives from my Beacon Exhibit

Buddha and Sunflowers

Peaches

The Offering

Silver and Lupine

Gunderson Exhibition in Beacon, NY

Gunderson Exhibition in Beacon, NY

The Inn and Spa in Beacon, New York 2019

The Beacon Fine Art Gallery - located in the lobby of the Inn and Spa in Beacon at 151 Main Street in Beacon, NY

The Gallery opens a new art exhibition featuring representational landscape
and still-life  paintings by renowned American painter,
Keith Gunderson of Kerhonkson, NY.  

Click here for exhibition

Hudson Highlands

Passing Shower

Morning on the Hudson

Hudson Valley Homestead

In Central Park

A path in Central Park.. a moment in time that is captured by light and thought.

In the Barn

I painted this scene plein air in a barn near Yorktown, NY. The warm afternoon light silhouetted the cows' contra jour and this contrasted nicely with the cool light pouring into the barn from the east facing doors.

A corner of the Studio

A corner of the Studio with accouterments of the painter's craft. The drapery and cast cabinet, the skeleton in its closet, canvases stacked above the small changing closet.a cast of Donatello's David for inspiration and the chair and coffee cup of the model who is posing just to the right, out of our field of vision.

North light studio

Whilst painting the figure one morning in my friend Alex's studio, I opted to make my fellow sketch group artists the motif.

The Offering

This is a painting that I made of a wooden chinese sculpture and an incense holder. I put a little smoke in to convey the notion of human activity.

Art Students League Sculpture Atelier

I painted this painting of the sculpture studios at the Art Students League of New York. I was making clay sculptures and learning casting for a time in the mornings there and was always fascinated by the skylit windows that face onto 58th Street. These northlight windows face onto the street and once had unobstructed light when the American Fine Arts building was built in 1892. Since then, Manhattan has grown up all around and I'll always remember the effect of working on my sculptures on a rainy day and seeing the New Yorkers with their umbrellas silhouetted against the dirty milk glass of these windows scurrying by- sort of like some painting that Manet or Degas would paint.

North Light Studio

This is a painting I did of a fellow artist friend painting a still life, contre jour " against the day" of the window.

Corner of the Studio

One afternoon, I painted a sunlit corner of a friends studio. I'm always fascinated by the way light cascades over objects as it moves across a scene.

Corner of the Studio oil on panel 18" x 24"

Gunderson Plein Air 2012- Samuel Morse Estate

This is a video with impressions of this last Sunday's plein air  (peinture sur le motif ) class at the Samuel F.B. Morse estate "Locust Grove" in Poughkeepsie, New York. From Sunday's class...it's all about MASSING- only way you can really see the vortex. Piecing together the mosaic of a three dimensional ball of light against an atmosphereic progression seems ludicrious-a waste of time as it's easier to squint down , hold on to the masses, let brush pressure calibrate the changes of value and tone.

Frank Mason on Velasquez

Classic scenes of the maestro himself expounding on Velasquez and seventeenth century Spanish painting. It should be easy to recognize, for those who are fortunate to have been there, the friendly confines of Harry Burnham's barn, where on any given Saturday in June, the landscape class assembled for the weekly critique.
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Plein Aire class at Dockside Cold Spring on the Hudson

Hey All- getting a little carried away with videos tonight.. Here's a vid of today's class at Dockside at Cold Spring on the Hudson.