SHEILA GARDNER Painting MAINE IDAHO MacDowell Colony NH ASL Woman MUSEUM ARTIST

Description: Painterly American Impressionist watercolor on heavy paper by well listed contemporary woman artist Sheila Gardner (Am., 1948-2019) depicting a vibrant, colorful landscape.Unframed painting measures 18 x 24 inches. Signed lower right, “Gardner”. Also signed verso “Sheila Gardner” and titled “Gathering Clouds”.Provenance: Smith, Kline & French, Philadelphia, PA. S,K & F ceased doing business under that name in 1989 (today, they are GlaxoSmithKline). This painting was from the S,K & F corporate art collection as No. 0411.Sheila Gardner’s career as a painter spanned at least five decades and she was a very active artist, so her bio is extensive. I’ve posted it below if you’d like to read through it. She studied at the Art Students League (ASL) in NYC, exhibited with the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery in NYC and Barridoff Gallery in Maine, was a MacDowell Colony (3 Fellowships) artist in Peterborough, NH and her work can be found today in museums such as the Portland Museum of Art and Boise Art Museum.Gardner lived in France, then Maine by the late 1970’s, and by the mid-80’s also began working / living out West in the Wood River Valley, Blaine County, Idaho (Ketchum and Sun Valley). By the mid-1980’s, Gardner was teaching painting at both the University of Maine and the Sun Valley Center for the Arts (today’s Sun Valley Museum of Arts) in Idaho.From 1985 to present (even though the artist passed away in 2019), Sheila Gardner has been represented by Gail Severn Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho. Ketchum is a world-famous Pacific Northwest skiing destination and some of the famous people who reside there include art collector Steve Wynn, rock stars Steve Miller and Peter Cetera, actors Scott Glenn and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and ski racers such as Picabo Street. Adam West and Ernest Hemingway lived there, too.Excellent, original condition painting was matted and framed under heavy glass until I removed the painting from the framing. It was too big, with the wide mat and frame, to ship, plus the glass made it very heavy not to mention fragile for shipping.Since the cardboard backer has the S,K & F label, but the backer is bigger than the 18 x 24” painting at 26 x 32” (it was backing the wide matting, too), I’ll cut down the backer to approx. 18 x 24” without disturbing the label and ship that to you along with the watercolor. This way, you’ll have the label. This painting has to ship flat, not rolled in a tube, anyway because I feel the watercolor paper is a bit too thick to safely roll. Here’s the artist’s bio (it’s very long!): SHEILA GARDNER (Born Jersey City, New Jersey, 1948; Died February 2019, Spring Creek, Nevada)EDUCATION: Endicott College, Associate Arts, Massachusetts; Art Students’ League, New York, NY; New School, New York, NY; Pratt Institute, New York, NY; New York University, New York, NY SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:2020 Gateways: Sheila Gardner (A Memorial Retrospective), Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2007 Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Lexus Select Artist, Sun Valley, ID2006 Light. Color. Landscape, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2004 Water and Woods, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2002 Listening To The Landscape, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2001 Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2000 Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY1997 Sheila Gardner: New Work, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID1994 Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Colorado1993 Sheila Gardner, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID1990 Parts of the Whole, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDKneeland Gallery, Las Vegas, NVMountains and Vines, Sun Valley Center Gallery, Ketchum, ID1988 Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDTatistcheff Gallery, New York, NYO’Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME1984 Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY1983 Barridoff Gallery, Portland, METatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY1980 Barridoff Gallery, Portland, ME1978 Barridoff Gallery, Portland, ME1976 University of Stuttgart, West Germany1976 Centre d’Animation Culturelle, Macon, FranceAmerican Consulate, Marseilles, France SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:2020 Honoring Our Landscape VIII, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2018 Honoring Our Landscape VII, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDGroup Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2017 Honoring Our Landscape V, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDMichael Gregory, Laura McPhee, Sheila Gardner, George Harkins, Vignettes - Landscape, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDHonoring our Landscape V, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDSAAC Juried exhibition, Friedman Memorial Airport, Hailey IDJames Cook, Sheila Gardner, Laura McPhee, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2014 Marks & Conversations, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDPreview 2014, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2013 Honoring Our Landscape II, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2012 State of Nature, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2009 The Artist Eye, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDInspired by Idaho, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2007 Landscape Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2006 Eloquent Flower X, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2005 In The Midst, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2004 The Eloquent Flower VIII, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDGail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2003 Where The Mountains Meet The Sky, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDThe Eloquent Flower VII, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDReinventing the Landscape VI, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2002 Reinventing the Landscape V, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDRocky Mountain Biennial, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, FortCollins, CO, Juried exhibition, Merit AwardA Sense of Place, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDThe Eloquent Flower VI, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDAnimal as Metaphor, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2001 23rd Annual Holiday Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDThe Eloquent Flower V, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2000 24th Annual Holiday Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDReinventing the Landscape III, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDFlora VI-A Common Thread, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDAnnual Holiday Show, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV1999 Past, Present, Future, 21st Annual Holiday Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDFlora V - A Common Thread, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDPrichard Art Gallery Invitational Exhibition, University of Idaho, Moscow, IDPoetics of Place II, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDThe Four Seasons, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NYGreen Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition Since 1950, the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and three subsequent museums.1998 22nd Annual Holiday Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID1998 November Group Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDSmall Sizes-Precious Places, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NYRebirth & Regrowth - Yellowstone Ten Years After the Fire, Wyoming Gallery, Jackson, WYVanier Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona1997 Group Holiday Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID1998 Wyoming Gallery, Jackson, WY1996 20th Annual Holiday Group Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDThe Eloquent Flower III, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID1995 The Eloquent Flower, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDArtFair/Seattle, Gail Severn Gallery, Seattle, WashingtonBeaches, Seashores, and Coastlines, USA, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY1994 Mini Treasures, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MontanaWaters Across America, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NYArtFair/Seattle, Gail Severn Gallery, Seattle, WA1993 Seventeenth Annual Holiday Group Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDArtFair/Seattle, Gail Severn Gallery, Seattle, WAKatharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NYFruits Flowers and Vegetables; The Contemporary Still Life, Kavesh Gallery, Ketchum, ID1992 Sixteenth Annual Holiday Group Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDNaturalism - In and Out of the Garden, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDContemporary American Art Landscapes, Galerie Quatre Pieces, Tokyo, Japan Summer Exhibition, Selections from Permanent Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID1991 Artists in Residence: An Idaho Perspective, Kneeland Gallery, Ketchum, IDSpirit of Place - Landscapes, DADA, Nagoya, JapanElements, Kneeland Gallery, Ketchum, ID1990 Centennial Biennial: Contemporary Idaho Art, Boise Art Museum, Boise, IDSpirit of the West, WestOne Bank, ID, touring exhibit1989 Naturalism - Selections from the Glenn C. Janss Collection Boise Art Museum,Boise, ID;Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, ORField and Stream - Pacific Northwest Artists, Prichard Art Gallery, University ofIdaho, Moscow, ID; Boise Art Museum, Boise, IDLandscapes: A Personal Vision, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID10th Anniversary Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY1988 Images of Maine, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MAAmerican Realism, Boise Art Museum, Boise, IDSchneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, ORFrancesca Anderson Gallery, Boston, MassachusettsJane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DCCentral Place Gallery, Bangor, ME1986 Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID1986 American Realism, Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CaliforniaThe Monumental Image: Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MOAmerican Landscape, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX1986 The Contemporary American Landscape, Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ1985 Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, IDSun Valley Center Gallery, Ketchum, ID1983 Contemporary Images, Watercolor 1983, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI1980 Maine Coast Artists’ Invitational, Rockport, ME (also ‘81,’82,’83) FELLOWSHIPS: 1981 Leighton Artists’ Colony, Banff Centre of Fine Arts, Banff, Canada; 1967 Michael Karolyi Foundation, Venice, France; 1967 Colonia Umjetnica, Pocitelj, Yugoslavia; 1964, 66, 80 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire; 1958 John Meyers Art Scholarship, New School, New York, NYTEACHING: 1985-2000 Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID, Watercolor Instructor and Visiting Artist; 1986 University of Maine, Drawing and Painting Instructor COLLECTIONS: The Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina UniversityBoise Art Museum, Boise, IDPortland Museum of Art, Portland, MEAmerica House, Munich, GermanyAT&T, New York, NYArthur Anderson & Company, Boston, MA and Chicago, ILBank of New York, New York, NYChemical Bank, New York, NYTexaco, White Plains, NYCoca-Cola, Atlanta, GAIBM, New York, NYMobil Oil, New York, NYMellon Bank, Pittsburgh, PAR.J. Reynolds Industries, Raleigh, NCE.F. Hutton, New York, NYUnited Technologies Research Center, Hartford, CTU.S. Tobacco, New York, NYLehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, New York, NYSmith Barney, New York, NYMilbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York, NYDeloitte, Haskins & Sells, New York, NYInvestment Mortgage International, San Francisco, CAConnecticut Bank and Trust, Hartford, CTOtis Elevator, Hartford, CTJohnson & Johnson, Princeton, NJMidlantic Bank, Newark, NJOppenheimer & Company, New York, NYUnited Bank of Denver, Denver, COMaine Savings Bank, Portland, MECasco Northern Bank, Portland, MESecurity Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CAShell Oil, Houston, TXStandish, Ayer & Wood, Boston, MARexham Corporation, Raleigh, NCGreat Bay Company, Boston, MASouthwestern Bell CorporationWest One Bank, Boise, IDWildling Museum of Art & Nature, Solvang, CA SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:1998 The Artist and the American Landscape, First Glance Books, John Driscoll - Arnold Skolnick1990 American Watercolors, calendar, Abbeville Press, New York, NY, Lisa Peyton, pp. 1,5; ill. p. 4.1989 Spirit of Place, Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown, Boston, MA, John Arthur, pp. 75, 93; ill. p. 77.Women Artists, calendar, Abbeville Press, Lisa Peyton, December.1988 Women Artists, American Watercolors, calendar, Abbeville Press, Rebecca Johnson, December1987 Reader’s Digest, August, back cover.1986 American Realism, Harry N. Abrams & Son, New York, NY, with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Alvin Marvin, pp. 145, 213;ill. p. 37. CATALOGS of Group Shows:1999 Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition Since 1950, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK1992-3 Vitrographs - Collaborative Works from the Littleton Studio1992 Contemporary American Landscapes, Galerie Quatre Pieces, Tokyo, Japan1989 Field and Stream, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID1988 Images of Maine, Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME1986 Watercolor USA: The Monumental Image, Springfield Art Museum CHECK MY FEEDBACK AND BUY WITH CONFIDENCE! *** 20+ years of happy customers on eBay *** Please see my other eBay listings for more great items.Message me to arrange for combined shipping on multiple purchases.

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