Barbara S. Learn "Unseen"
This collection of artwork was created by Barbara S. Learn over the decades of her studies at Pratt Institute in NYC, to summer workshops at Cape Cod, and her life as an artist, wife, and mother in Western New York. The pieces represented in this exhibit have been culled from the family's storage library of sketches, studies, watercolors, and oils.
Many have never been displayed before and have been cleaned and presented for exhibit for your appreciation and enjoyment.
Purchase and handling information is available at the Exhibit.
Barbara studied art at the Pratt Institute in New York City. This accomplishment far exceeded the expectations of the young women in the 1930s from a small American town. She was an apprentice under the tutelage of Robert Noel Blair, a prolific Western New York Artist. She also painted with the North Truro, MA Art Association and the Olean, NY Art Association among others. Barbara's work was shown at the prestigious Albright Knox Art Gallery and Lakeview Gallery in Buffalo, NY. She received many awards for her artistic talent.
Barabar worked in a variety of media including oil and pen & ink but she is known for her vibrant, fluid, natural landscapes in watercolor. Her watercolors were full of wash with seemingly effortless brush strokes.
{Descriptions provided by the Fountain Arts Center in Belmont, NY.}
Free and Open to the public, this collection will be on display at the studio from August 2017 during open studio hours.
"Artists Among Us" is a touring art program created by the Fountain Arts Center, Belmont, NY. The Artists Among Us program is funded in part by the New York State Council On The Arts Decentralization ReGrant Program with support from Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature administered through the Cattaraugus County Arts Council.
Host Sites proposed for this round of "Artists Among Us" touring exhibit include: Jones Memorial Hospital, Cuba Circulating Library, Houghton College Community Gallery, Allegany County Office for the aging, The Fountain Arts Center, Inn at 26, Total Senior Care, The Wide Awake Club, and SheilaLynnK Art Studio.