Did You Know That Gloria Vanderbilt is Also a Fine Artist?
By artinvest | November 11, 2010
I just learned today that Gloria Vanderbilt is also a fine artist. I was doing research on her for a fashion article and came across her fine art website, Gloria Vanderbilt Fine Art.
Vanderbilt studied art at the Art Students League of New York. She became known for her artwork, giving one-woman shows of oil paintings, watercolors, and pastels. This artwork was adapted and licensed, starting about 1968, by Hallmark Cards (a manufacturer of paper products) and by Bloomcraft (a textile manufacturer), and Vanderbilt began designing specifically for linens, china, glassware and flatware.
In 2001, Gloria had her first exhibition in Vermont. Her exhibition of “Dream Boxes” at the Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont was a critical success. Then on June 16, 2007, she returned to the Southern Vermont Arts Center with an exhibition of 35 paintings where 21 paintings were sold during the opening reception. In September 26, 2009 Gloria returned to the Arts Center to be one of four panelist at its Annual Fall Show Exhibition plus to sign her latest novel,”Obsession: An Erotic Tale”. Because of the demand for her artwork, she has created her own on-line website, Gloria Vanderbilt Fine Art. This site features her paintings, lithographs and dream boxes.
Heart Does Not Break, SOLD, oil on gesso framed dimensions: 15.25" x 12"
Here is an exerpt from her artist statement: “Often my images are channeled in dreams which find expression in my paintings often in a narrative quality which has been shuffled around in the kaleidoscope of my imagination to find themselves in colors and patterns that sustain me. Memory is also a driving influence, memories I absorb and reinvent to changing effect because I have changed but do not want to let them go. Color too intoxicates, inspires, so does the beauty of a person, who has something I can’t quite catch. They become muses which I become obsessed to define, reveal something of their mystery.”
To learn more about her and her life, check out the other blog article I wrote: Gloria Vanderbilt: Heiress, Fashion Designer, Fine Artist and Author
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