Auction Ends: May 18, 2009 05:00 PM EDT
Art
Early Morning in Denville -- painting
- Item Number
- 151
- Estimated Value
- 800 USD
- Leading Bid
- 401 USD
- Number of Bids
- 8 - Bid History
Item Description
oil on birch plywood, 8 x 8 inches
september, 2008
september, 2008
Barbara Neibart has been painting, drawing, doodling on napkins and generally goofing off in her studio for decades. She knew she wanted to be an artist since she was a little girl, taking classes for several years at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Before she could leave the museum every Saturday, she would drag her father (also an artist) upstairs to see Peter Paul Rubens’ painting, “Prometheus Bound.” The painting is a violent - and painterly! - depiction of the Titan chained upside-down to a rock with an eagle ripping out and eating his liver, as punishment for giving fire to man. His liver would regenerate each night and be ripped out again the next day (that seems like an apt, if somewhat harsh, metaphor for the creative process…).*
Landscape was Neibart’s first inspiration when she started her college art education at Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts). She transferred to, and graduated from Cornell University with a BFA in painting, which included a Fellowship in 1976 to Yale University at Norfolk and, upon graduation, a Max Beckmann Scholarship to the Brooklyn Museum. She continued her painting career in Philadelphia, and southern New Jersey, and then graduated with an MFA in painting from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
Since then, Neibart has shown her oil and mixed media paintings in galleries throughout the northeast. Her paintings, monotypes and humorous illustrations have been commissioned by, among others, the Wine Media Guild of NY, the Ford Foundation, Bust Magazine, and the Philadelphia Zoo. She is currently working on a collaborative series with artist Bethany Bonner, a book of her humorous drawings (for adults), a series of greeting cards and a couple of children’s books. In September, Neibart began a new series of oil landscape paintings. She has also taught art at the college level since 1989, at Richard Stockton College of NJ and at Marymount Manhattan College. She currently teaches fine art at the County College of Morris.
She lives in Rockaway, New Jersey, with her son, Sam and their dog, Penny Lane.
Donated By:
Barbara Neibart
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