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Jane Wooster Scott Signed Print Clowning Around

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Jane Wooster Scott Signed Print Clowning Around
This fun carnival picture has certainly a lot of clowing going on. * Artist: Jane Wooster ScottSignature: By the artist, lower rightEdition: Limited, numberedTitle: Clowning AroundMedium: Offset lithograph on paperSheet size: 13 1/2" x 15 1/4" * Condition: ExcellentBiography: * Wooster Scott * Jane Wooster Scott, who signs her work Wooster Scott, paints dazzling representations of life's celebrations in turn-of-the century and early 20th Century America. * For more than twenty-five years her paintings have summoned memories of a national heritage - the traditions, holidays, and customs of an innocent and energetic young America. Scott's paintings make no statement beyond reminding us that those were indeed the good old days. * In bright, uninhibited colors she revels in the fanciful simplicities of skating on moonlit ponds, country picnics, bobbing for apples at Halloween, hay rides and quilting bees. Her brushes summon a culture only dimly recalled by older Americans, rapidly vanishing memories. * Asked why a modern, sophisticated woman chooses to devote her career to a bygone era, Scott says, "It is really a deep love for Americana, especially those years that seem a perfect time in which to have lived." * "I believe people were more honorable then. Their word was their bond. The pace was slower and more time was given to the appreciation of beauty. People loved their country and they were proud of the fact." * "Then, too, the air and the water and people's minds were cleaner. The family unit was strong and most households included several generations. Front doors were left unbolted. And certainly, there were fewer pressures and tensions. People walked the streets safely at night." * Scott's earliest recollections go back to that section of the country that, even in the 1940's retained glimmerings of the era in which she paints. She was reared in a small eastern Pennsylvania town near picturesque Bucks County to the north and the Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch communities to the west. Family excursions introduced her to red barns with hex signs, isolated white churches crowned with cross-topped steeples, covered wooden bridges and abandoned one-room school houses. * Today, Scott travels to New England, stopping in rural Vermont, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Island seeking inspiration from the pastoral vistas and old buildings. She photographs those landscapes, buildings and oddities to recapture later on canvas. Few of her paintings, however, reflect real, existing scenes. Almost all her compositions are imaginary, drawn from her own thoughts and emotions. * As with most notable artists, Scott's primary consideration in creating a painting is composition and form. Her ideas are first sketched roughly on paper, leaving details for the canvas. Uppermost in her thoughts, however, is the joy of color, which is immediately apparent in all her work. Daring, uninhibited use of the spectrum sets her apart from most contemporaries.The discerning eye often finds a dark haired young girl and/or gangly youth in Wooster Scott paintings. A study of her paintings in chronological order reveals the growth of the youngsters, daughter Ashley and son Vernon IV. The recurring black and white cat is the Scott family pet, Lollipop.Jane Wooster Scott has been expanding her horizons to Japan, Africa, and Europe with exhibitions of her brilliant original oil paintings and serigraphs. Her popularity has spread to such nations as Portugal and Australia through permanent displays in American Embassies as representational of American Traditions. Her art has even graced the walls of The White House. She has had major shows in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta, and many other cities and towns across the United States. She has received high critical acclaim and most of her shows have completely sold out on opening night. *
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