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Nancy Campbell, Director
========================================================== WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART ANNOUNCES EXHIBIT: BANKS OF THE HUDSON OPENING: Saturday, August 8th, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. SHOW RUNS: Through Sept. 5th GALLERY HOURS: Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. LOCATION: Route 212, east of hamlet of Woodstock FMI: www.woodstockschoolofart.org; 845-679-2388 The Woodstock School of Art announces a very special exhibit in conjunction with the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial entitled, “Banks of the Hudson.” As the title suggests, work in the show pays homage to the Hudson River and the communities along its banks, in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Englishman Henry Hudson’s 1609 voyage of discovery as captain of the Dutch ship, the Halve Maen. From over 200 entries, juror M. Stephen Doherty chose 40 paintings for the show, which will be showcased in the elegant, recently renovated gallery which also houses the school’s administrative offices. Doherty is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of American Artist, Watercolor, Drawing, and Workshop magazines. He graduated summa cum laude from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and earned a MFA in printmaking from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He has written dozens of magazine articles and several books, including: The Watson-Guptill Handbook of Landscape Painting, Dynamic Still Lifes in Watercolor, Business Letters for Artists, The Artist in the Landscape: Thomas Kinkade and the Plein Air Tradition, Creative Oil Painting and Color Choices: Watercolor. The juror is also an active outdoor painter who relishes the opportunity to paint in Westchester County where the great 19th century artists gained inspiration. His paintings have been featured at the Bryant Galleries in New Orleans, Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi, and Tree’s Place Gallery in Orleans, Massachusetts. While the majority of paintings in the show feature the river and the surrounding countryside made world famous during the 19th century by the first school of American landscape painting, the Hudson River School, the approach and treatment of the subject matter is varied. Jane Bloodgood-Abrams’ oil painting “Transmigration Over the Valley,” may capture the romantic feeling of the awesome power of nature one might find in a Hudson River School work, while Bruce Bundock’s acrylic winter scene of “Port Ewen on the Hudson,” shows a distinctly modern view, no less beautiful in its everyday simplicity and cold winter light, of an American community of split level homes along the river’s frozen banks. Not romantic in any traditional sense, yet akin to the evocative paintings of the Canadian Group of Seven, Stewart Friedman’s oil painting, the “Hudson-Athens Lighthouse” accurately portrays the sometimes wild and changeable Catskills climate as turbulent, brightly backlit clouds make their way across a blue sky, still dropping rain on one spot, while the river gleams silver from the unseen sun. Bloodgood-Abrams won the Katherine McKenna Award of $300,” Friedman, the Phyllis DePaul Memorial Award of $1000, Bundock, the $1500 Hudson 400 award. Several additional awards, made possible by Richard Segalman, The Fletcher Gallery, Lasher Funeral Home, Catskill Art and Office supply, and a grant from an Anonymous Fund of the Community Foundation of Dutchess County were given to five other artists in the show. An added treat to visitors at the opening, Tad Richards and friends will be performing the song, “Banks of the Hudson,” co-written with Congressman John Hall. Richards, who is the director of Opus 40, the Saugerties site of Harvey Fite’s monumental native bluestone sculpture, wrote the lyrics and Hall wrote the music for the song which appears on Hall’s album, Rock Me on the Water. Richards, talking about the creation of the song, said that John Hall “wanted to do one song on the Hudson, and he had a lovely folk song-type melody. He called me, and we sat down together. I began where I always seem to begin in writing about the Hudson -- with Thomas Cole, and particularly with "Voyage of Life" -- the voyage down the river compared to the ages of a man.” Banks of the Hudson opens with a “meet the artists” reception on Saturday, August 8, from 3 to 5 p.m. Admission is free and public is welcome. The Woodstock School of Art, whose buildings are on both National and NY State registers as historic landmarks, is open Monday to Saturday, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. For more information please call the school at 845-679-2388 or visit www.woodstockschoolofart.org.  Jane Bloodgood Abrams, oil, Transmigration Over the Valley  Bruce Bundock, acrylic, Port Ewen on the Hudson  Stewart Friedman, oil, Hudson Athens Lighthouse photos, courtesy the artists
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