Tomorrow,
February 19, from 3 to 3:30, there will be a talk by Virginia Duncan, a
graduate student in art history at the University of Pennsylvania, at the
Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Ms. Duncan will be discussing the Angelo
Pinto's reverse painting on glass, Bathers on the Boardwalk, 1944, as part of the
Institute’s In Focus Gallery Talks series. This subject dates to the period
when the artist and his extended family spent summers at the Jersey Shore.
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| Angelo Pinto, Bathers on the Boardwalk, 1944 |
Showing here is our preparatory drawing for the Barnes’ work, a gouache on paper.
It’s interesting to see that the composition is basically ‘flopped’ with the
building and pier and the green-suited figure both on the left of the Barnes’
version. Of course this makes sense if the artist was following his composition
and we are seeing it from the back as it were. Could there be a more difficult technique?
Our drawing has
two additional figures on the sand, below the boardwalk level.
Naturally I
wish I could be there. If anyone has an opportunity to attend – comments would
be most welcome.
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