Artist:
Peter Paone
(b. 1936)
Studio
Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper
Date: 1978
Dimensions:
20 1/2 x 26 1/2 in. (52.1 x 67.3 cm.)
Accession number: 2023.13.25
Curatorial RemarksIn this portrayal of his own studio, Peter Paone (b. 1936) includes surreal motifs, several of which appear in other works, such as the elongated nude figure, the curious snail, and the ice-cream cones with faces. Noteworthy are the three people at left walking away from the viewer, consisting of the artist himself and another person escorting a nude model out of the studio, emphasizing that Paone’s working method does not involve live models but instead springs directly from his imagination. In larger scale, the artist, holding a palette, stands sentinel at far left.
Paone is an artist well known to the Brandywine for the exhibition Reality Reassembled: The Halloween Paintings of Peter Paone, which was presented at Brandywine in the fall of 2019. Paone has had a long and successful career working in the figurative tradition, not only in painting and drawing, but also in printmaking, a medium that he has excelled in since he began studying it as a student at John Bartram High School in Philadelphia. Paone established the print department at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he taught until 2009. Paone’s prints demonstrate his strengths in multimedia and his lifelong approach to storytelling that resonate with viewers through their mysterious but often poignant or dark portrayal.
Paone is an artist well known to the Brandywine for the exhibition Reality Reassembled: The Halloween Paintings of Peter Paone, which was presented at Brandywine in the fall of 2019. Paone has had a long and successful career working in the figurative tradition, not only in painting and drawing, but also in printmaking, a medium that he has excelled in since he began studying it as a student at John Bartram High School in Philadelphia. Paone established the print department at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he taught until 2009. Paone’s prints demonstrate his strengths in multimedia and his lifelong approach to storytelling that resonate with viewers through their mysterious but often poignant or dark portrayal.
On view