Flora: Paintings by Janet Alling (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780825306358)

A Lifetime Retrospective Collection of the Paintings of Janet Alling

Featuring her main interest, the process of painting from direct observation of plants in natural light, Alling worked on a large-scale using close observation and magnified forms. Her first one-woman show at 55 Mercer in 1972 was enthusiastically reviewed by Peter Schjeldahl, in the Sunday New York Times, Roberta Smith in Art News, and others who identified Alling as a painter to watch among the generation of realist painters working in large scale perception of reality: Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, and Jane Freilicher.

Her watercolor and oil paintings in this collection especially are a development of progression of formal visual ideas, color exploration, and the phenomena of the natural world.

Author: Janet Alling
ISBN-10: 0825306353
ISBN-13: 9780825306358
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2010
Pages: 111
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 10.40h x 9.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2010 pg. 231