TitleGrey Day
Artist
Cornelia Foss
(American, b. 1931)
Date2007
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 52 x 52 1/4 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "Cornelia Foss"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, November 18, 2009
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number2009.20
Label TextBorn in Berlin, Cornelia Foss has had an extremely colorful life. During her formative years she studied with Stephen Greene before moving to Los Angeles continue her studies with Rico Lebrun and Howard Warshaw, two of the leading artists in Southern California at the time. Foss' first two solo exhibitions were at the progressive Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1959 and 1961. Since that time her work has been included in dozens of group and solo exhibitions. Foss works in both a landscape and figure idiom and her work can be seen within the context of her contemporaries, such as Wolf Kahn, Jane Freilicher, Lois Dodd, Robert Berlind, and many others. She frequently paints the landscape of eastern Long Island and "Grey Day" is a strong example of one of her beachscapes.
