Life As Art: The Paintings of Gregory Gillespie and Frances Cohen Gillespie

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Susan R. Stebbins, with an essay by Fred Licht

2003. 64 pp., 42 illus., 25 in color. 9 x 10 in. ISBN 1-891771-29-9 Paper. $15.00.

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Gregory and Frances Gillespie emerge, in this first catalogue (Fogg Art Museum) on their combined works, as among the foremost 20th-century American realists. From the time they married in New York in 1959, when both were art students, through their years of marriage and afterwards, their work expressed an unparalleled commitment to art modeled on the passion of the Abstract Expressionists. Fran Gillespie's powerful, large-scale flower paintings, like Gregory Gillespie's mysterious, probing self-portraits, were inspired by Flemish and Italian Renaissance artists and layers of symbolic imagery.

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