INspired By the Masters - A One Woman Show
November 21 through December 29, 2018
Reception Nov 24, 7-9pm
For purchase information contact Seaside Art Gallery at [email protected] or 252-441-5418
"My art journey has taken me to this place where I am finally understanding why I am drawn toward miniatures, and why I prefer classical realism to photo realism - in particular, why I love the Dutch masters and have since I was a kid. I love art that draws you IN.
The Dutch masters painted in exquisite detail, similar to miniature art, and that alone invites you to lean in and look closer. But they took it one step further, and covered paintings with rugs or draperies, or kept them in wood boxes on the wall. The viewer would pull back the curtain or open the cupboard to see the painting. This is so different from today, where buzzers go off and guards get prickly if you get too close to their paintings in museums.
Also, the 17th century pieces are quite often composed in a way that invites you into the painting. The subjects are in a room at the end of a hall, or framed by an archway, or in a private space where you feel a great privilege at being welcomed to look on. My personal goal in my art is to give the viewer an experience. I try to stimulate all the senses. I want them to feel they are IN the painting, feeling the heat or the splash of the wave, smelling the flowers, hearing the birds chirping in the distance. I thought by capitalizing the IN in Inspired, it would convey some of that." Debra Keirce
"American Glory" by Debra Keirce
14"x11" Oil on Dibond Panel
Framed to 14"x17"
$1,285
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INspired by
“Flower Still Life”
by Willem van Aelst
1663
Oil on Canvas
Cincinnati Art Museum
"An Apple a Day" by Debra Keirce
12"x14" Oil on Panel
Framed to 14 3/4"x16 3/4"
$1,395
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INspired by
“The Basket of Apples”
by Paul Cezanne
1895
Oil on Canvas
Art Institute of Chicago
"Biding Time" by Debra Keirce
4"x4" Oil on Panel
Framed to 5 3/4"x5 3/4"
$395
SOLD
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INspired by
“The Persistence of Memory”
by Salvador Dali
1931
Oil on Canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
"Booty" by Debra Keirce
15"x19.5" Oil on Panel
Framed to 21"x25"
$2,350
SOLD
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INspired by
“The Storm on the Sea of Galilee”
by Rembrandt van Rijn
1633
Oil on Canvas
Stolen March 18, 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
"Charcuterie" by Debra Keirce
30"x40" Oil on Brushed Aluminum Panel
Framed to 34"x44"
$5,975
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INspired by
“Still Life With a Turkey Pie”
by Pieter Claesz
1627
Oil on Panel
The Hague, Netherlands
"Creation" by Debra Keirce
10"x20" Oil on Panel
Framed to 13 1/2"x23 1/2"
$1,395
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INspired by
Hands From “The Creation of Adam”
by Michelangelo
1512
Fresco
Sistine Chapel Ceiling in Rome, Italy
"Daughter" by Debra Keirce
20" x 23 1/2" Oil on Panel
Framed to 23 1/2" x 27"
$2,545
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INspired by
“Whistler’s Mother”
by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1871
Oil on Canvas
Musee’ d’Orsay in Paris, France
"Early Birds" by Debra Keirce
12"x16" Oil on Panel
Framed to 15 1/2"x19 1/2"
$1,545
SOLD
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INspired by
"Nighthawks”
by Edward Hopper
1942
Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago
"Girl Without a Pearl Earring" by Debra Keirce
20"x16" Oil on Panel
Framed to 22"x18"
$2,495
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INspired by
“Girl With a Pearl Earring”
by Johannes Vermeer
1665
Oil on Canvas
The Hague, Netherlands
“The Great Wave Off Kanagawa”
by Hokusai
1829 - 1832
Color Woodblock
Impressions of the print are in many Western collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and in Claude Monet’s home in Gierny, France, and many other collections.
“Modern World” by Debra Keirce
12” x 16” Oil on Panel
Framed to 14"x16"
$975
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INspired by:
“Christina’s World”
by Andrew Wyeth
1948
Egg tempera on gessoed panel
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
“The Oath” by Debra Keirce
6"x8” Oil on Panel
Framed to 9 1/4"x11 1/4"
$625
SOLD
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INspired by:
“The Oath of the Horatii”
by Jacques-Louis David
1784
Oil on Canvas
Louvre, Paris, France
"Pears, Peanuts and a Glass of Wine" by Debra Keirce
4"x6" Oil on panel
Framed to 7 1/2" x 9 1/2"
$445
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INspired by
“Pears, Walnuts and Glass of Wine”
by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
1768
Oil on Canvas
Louvre, Paris, France
“The Scholar” by Debra Keirce
12” x 14” Oil on Panel
Framed to 17 1/4" x 21 1/4"
$1,585
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INspired by
“Astronomer by Candlelight”
by Gerrit Dou
1665
Oil on Panel
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Son of Woman" by Debra Keirce
21 1/2" x 17 1/4" Oil on Panel
Framed to 23 1/2" x 19 1/4"
$2,545
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INspired by
“Son of Man”
by Rene' Magritte
1964
Oil on Canvas
Private Collection
"SonFlowers" by Debra Keirce
24 1/2" x 22" Oil on Panel
Framed to 28 1/2" x 26"
$2,495
SOLD
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INspired by
“Sunflowers”
by Vincent Van Gogh
1889
Oil on Canvas
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
“Washington Crossing the Delaware”
by Emanuel Leutze
1851
Oil on Canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
“Banquet Piece With Mince Pie”
by Willem Claesz Heda
1635
Oil on Canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“A Tisket, A Tasket” by Debra Keirce
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INspired by
“Basket of Fruit”
by Caravaggio
1599
Oil on Canvas
Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
“Vanitas with Violin and Glass Ball”
by Pieter Claesz
1628
Oil on Oak Wood
Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremburg, Germany
SOLD
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INspired by
“The Night Watch”
by Rembrandt van Rijn
1642
Oil on Canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
“Water Lillies”
by Claude Monet
1916
Oil on Canvas
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
