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Myron Heise The
contrast of concrete and farmland
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He has his own expressive and pictorial means that reveal a certain strangeness in the postures, faces and gestures of people, sometimes seeming involved in either a danse macabre or frozen in time as the title of one of his subway paintings suggests. San
Genarro Festival |
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Paul Serrato and Co. 18" X 24" Oil on Canvas $1,200 |
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In a century when the scramble to abandon reality in art for the latest artificial ism has been mindlessly intense and nearly universal, Myron R. Heise is a refreshing exception. Heise has long been committed to his special realist vision of New York City and the landscape of his native Bancroft, Nebraska. Sunset
on Jersey
Oil on Canvas — 24" X 30" - 1972 $2,400 |
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Gerard
Haggerty is
an artist and writer who teaches at Brooklyn College, City University
of New York. He is a regular contributor to Artnews, and his work
has twice won the support of the National Endowment for the Arts,
and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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New York's gritty bars, desolate subway, the problematic streets and people who inhabit them vie with and complement the fresh green fields and pristine skies of the rural Midwest. Hotel
Dixie and the Moon
Prints Are Available of this Art Work Upon Request
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New York City at night is a magnificent, nearly visionary event, especially the skyscrapers. Heise also ably expresses this poetry of light and form melding with darkness. Westbeth
at Dusk |
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