From "Gretchen Dow Simpson obituary: Artist for The New Yorker/Creator known for the rigid geometry of her depictions of staircases, beaches and exteriors of New England houses, dies aged 85" (London Times).
You can view her work at her website, here.
And check out her mural in Rhode Island:
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Fuzzy photos, lame composition, wavery lines between colors, and visible brushstrokes. I'm afraid I'd rather have E Jean Carroll deep in a box of white wine paint my house.
As America entered the Bill Clinton era, Brown, who famously put a naked, heavily pregnant Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991, wanted more topical and politically charged material to create buzz.
Isn’t that what every leftie in death’s green room desperately craves…and is why they flail at a Joe Biden or Pete Buttiedge?
On the mural, I love the Christo running banner on the grass. It ties the whole scene together. Brilliant artistic touch.
That's nice, but no match for Providence's Big Blue Bug.
Reminds me a bit of Edward Hopper in style and colour, but with a more photographic/abstract composition. Not quite what I like, but interesting, and I can see how it would appeal to some people.
Gretchen Hansell Dow Simpson was an American painter from New England. She is the author of over 60 magazine covers for The New Yorker.
Yet she used the word "learnt" as the past tense of "learn" which follows the British English form instead of "learned" as preferred by U.S and Canadian English speakers - at least those living outside of Appalachia.
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