TitleWorking from Life, II
Artist
Langdon Quin
(American, b. 1948)
Date2002
MediumOil on linen
DimensionsFramed: 19 × 66 in.
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, November 18, 2009
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of Langdon C. Quin III, 2009
Object number2009.24
Label TextBorn in Atlanta, Georgia, Langdon Quin shares his time between Troy, New York and the central Italian town of Gubbio in Umbria. Quin received a BA in Fine Arts from Washington & Lee University in 1970 and studied for one year at the Pennsylvania Academy before enrolling in Yale University, where he got his MFA in 1976. The artist's first solo exhibition was at the First Street Gallery, New York, in 1970 and since then he has had numerous solo exhibitions. Quin works equally within the domains of landscape, figure, and still life painting and "Working from Life II" is a three-part painting that combines all three of the artist's interests into one composition. One reviewer, writing about the larger version of this painting, commented that "This is the studio as theater, its productions as calculated for effect as any other staged performance. Working from Life is a sly, clever visual essay on the role of art and the process of art-making. The humor of it only partly disguised by the seductiveness of the paint."
