"Bringing the Museum to You"

By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the third of three 10-piece Exhibitions of works by contemporary portrait and landscape artist Glenn Harrington. Glenn was born in New York in 1959. After receiving his BFA from Pratt Institute in New York in 1981, Glenn began his career in illustration and painting.

 

The paintings of Glenn Harrington are recognized and collected internationally and have been featured in such publications as American Arts Quarterly, American Art Collector, International Artists Magazine, the covers of American Artist & US Art, New Art International, The New York Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

 

Glenn has received numerous awards and commendations from the Society of Illustrators, Communications Arts, The Art Director's Club and the Society of Publication Designers as well as the Portrait Society of America. His original paintings have appeared in museums and galleries nationwide including the Museum of American Illustration in New York, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts, the USGA Museum in New Jersey, The Jack Nicklaus Museum in Ohio, and The Art Institutes in Houston, Dallas and Miami. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York, Charleston, South Carolina and Pennsylvania. His work has been featured in traveling exhibitions to Japan including a collection of 24 paintings exhibited in Tokyo and Osaka.

 

Glenn’s paintings have been published on over 600 book covers including such classics as Room with a View, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Man and Superman, Women in Love, Dangerous Liaisons, The Golden Bowl and Mansfield Park. Two books containing 40 oils, commissioned by Sterling Publishing, were printed on the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare and W.B. Yeats. Glenn created 50 original oils for Disney's children's book "Tarzan" in 2000. Penguin Books has recently republished Carl Sandburg's Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Abe Lincoln Grows Up" with its cover painting by Harrington.

 

Glenn's portrait work is highly regarded, having received the Portrait Society of America’s Draper Grand Prize in 2007, Honor Award in 2008 and 2005 and Certificate Awards in 2009 and 2004 during its international juried exhibitions.

 

          Artist Statement/Philosophy

 

“I'm interested in capturing an iconic image of an experience, happenings that we all know to be true; visual and emotional. Sometimes life is exciting and colorful and sometimes it is depressing and challenging. I prefer to expose the brighter, celebratory and unusually interesting moments. Ugly is easy. 

 

We never have to look too far to find beauty. It's so bountiful, that we often take it for granted. Once we determine that something is beautiful, then we have to find out why.

 

When I close my eyes for the last time, I want a Monet hanging over the bed, not a Bacon (if I can afford one by then). Life is tough enough, why complicate it with depraved paintings? Beauty can be subjective-I find some "weeds" as attractive as flowers while others might spray poison on them. Humans are complex, multifaceted, beautiful creatures capable of good and evil.”

 

Glenn has one of the most fully-realized creative/artistic philosophies that I have come across. To understand more of this brilliant painter, read this fascinating interview found here:

 

http://artbookguy.com/glenn-harrington-iconic-imagery_808.html