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Striking Accord: Two Painters, Two Centuries, Share Affinity in Exhibit at Kiesendahl+Calhoun Gallery
 | | Kate McGloughlin, The Apple Tree, 22 x 28" oil on canvas, 2007 |
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When artist Kate McGloughlin (1962-) first discovered James Britton's (1878- 1936) work at the Nabi Gallery in NYC last Spring, she was struck with a sense of knowing, painter to painter, what the artist was feeling and seeing. Although born eightyseven years apart in two different centuries, the two artists share a painterly kinship, communicating with thick confident strokes an affirmation of seeing and boldness in the telling, even in their smaller scale paintings, from minimalist to more elaborate impressions of skies and landscapes that often unfolded right outside their studio windows.
James Britton was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1878 and died there in 1936. Although a master portrait painter, Britton also produced hundreds of landscapes and woodcuts. In the early 1900s he was active in an art colony in Gloucester Massachusetts. An avid promoter of American art, Britton also wrote art criticism for American Art News from 1913 - 1919 and was one of the founders of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Art.
He also formed the 'Eclectics', an artist group which exhibited annually in NYC galleries, touting such members as Maurice Prendergast and George Luks. The year of his death the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford mounted a memorial exhibition. Since then the artist's work has been shown in museums and galleries in New York City, Connecticut, Long Island and California. His diaries and unfinished autobiography can be found in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Kate McGloughlin, born in 1962, has lived most of her life in Olivebridge, in New York's Hudson Valley, where she lives with her partner Sarah Stitham. McGloughlin was awarded a scholarship to study printmaking with Robert Angeloch at the Woodstock School of Art where she currently teaches printmaking and serves on the Board of Directors. Since 1999 McGloughlin has been included in "Whos's Who in American Art" and has taught numerous landscape workshops in the US and Italy.
Among other awards, in 1995 McGloughlin won the prestigious Kuniyoshi Fund Award for Outstanding Achievement. Kiesendahl+Calhoun brings these two artist's work together with Striking Accord at the Next Level gallery space located at the Hudson Beach Glass factory at 162 Main Street in Beacon.
There will be a sneak preview of their work starting on Beacon's Second Saturday April 14th from noon until 9pm. The artist reception and official opening is Saturday April 21st from 5- 7pm. The exhibit runs through Monday May 28th. For more information Call Camilla Calhoun 914-844-6296 or camillac@optonline.net.
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