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Sylvan 2009 News & Highlights of the Year
A special thank you to all of our friends for the support you have given us over the years. Rick and I feel blessed that we continually find people who love art just as much as we do and who know what a difference it makes to our well-being to be able to view beautiful paintings each day. We also feel very lucky to be able to represent such a talented group of artists who are continually growing in knowledge and abilities as well. We feel we have one of the best jobs...representing these wonderful artists who create paintings that improve the spaces we live in and finding people who feel a connection to them. Following that same line of thought, one of the highlights of our year was that paintings were chosen from Sylvan Gallery to be purchased for the Smilow Art Program at the new Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven. Cama Incorporated were the interior designers chosen to select art for the hospital. Their goal was to create a "healing atmosphere" in the building through art. Quoting from Smilow's interior features modern art by Lauren Motzkin, staff reporter for "Yale Daily News": "There is a lot of research in support of evidence-based design, which says that there is a correlation between the design of a space and the health outcome," (Roz) Cama said. "The board of the hospital understood that art creates the right kind of distraction for patients and the right kind of atmosphere for healing." The Sylvan Gallery Artists whose works were selected for the Smilow Cancer Hospital were Patrick Branch, Sandy Garvin, Deborah Quinn-Munson and Karen Wiesner. Below are some of the pieces that are now installed in Smilow Cancer Hospital.

Sunlit Field by Patrick Branch, oil on panel, 17" x 23"


By Sandy Garvin, left to right: Duck River, oil, 36" x 36" and The Last Hurrah, oil, 47" x 47"


By Deborah Quinn-Munson, left to right: CT River Reflections, oil, 26" x 36" and Blue Sky Day, oil, 30" x 30"


By Deborah Quinn-Munson, left to right: Marsh Gold, oil, 36" x 46", and July Sparkle, oil, 24" x 48"


By Karen Wiesner, Yellow Barn on Indian River, pastel, 11" x 12 1/2"

Please feel free to contact us if you would like more information on any of these artists.

Other news... Frank Mason, a renowned artist and instructor at the Art Students League in NYC passed away on June 16, 2009. He was an instructor to many of the talented artists that we represent. I was lucky to have studied with him for eight years when we lived in New York. There is so much that can be said about Mason...he was bigger than life with a personality that could fill up several rooms but had the most delicate stroke when demonstrating an important concept on a student's painting. He is one of the major artists that kept representational painting alive when it was out of fashion as he passed on his knowledge to thousands of students over an incredible teaching span of 57 years at the ASL. To learn more about this remarkable artist, please read this extensive obituary that The Times in London published: Frank Mason: artist and teacher Gallery artists who studied under Mason include: Peter Layne Arguimbau, Amy Beth Danielson, Jennifer Li, Nicholas Oberling, Patrick Branch, Elizabeth Torak, Thomas Torak, Jack Winslow, Karen Winslow and Laura Winslow.
Artists that we represent who were honored with distinguished Awards this year include: Al Barker received the Mary Fitch Memorial Award at the Salmagundi Club's 126th Annual Member's Exhibition Heather Gibson-Lusk received the Marion Tetlow Best Local Artist award at the 2009 Mystic Outdoor Art Festival Barbara Lussier received the Isabella W. Steinschneider award at the Hudson Valley Art Association 2009 Annual Show. She was also awarded "top 15% distinction" by the jury for the August and September 2009 Fine Arts Views painting competition. Victor Mays received the Thomas Wells Award at the 30th Annual International, 2009 exhibition at Mystic Seaport Maritime Art Gallery Of Additional Interest... Thomas Torak* took over Frank Mason's class at the Art Student's League. Karen Winslow is conducting regular classes and offering free oil painting demonstrations from the "new" Winslow Art Studio in Cambridge, VT. For more information, contact Karen through Winslow Art Studio. This is a great opportunity to see and hear how a master artist thinks as she begins a painting.

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