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JANET WENSLEY KIMBERLING Janet Kimberling is an artist whose landscapes reflect her fascination with the drama of nature, her love of the ever-changing cloud formations of New Mexico (where she has resided since 1975), and the challenge of depicting the crumbling walls of ancient architecture. |
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| She enjoys traveling extensively, making color studies and detailed pencil drawings from which her larger works are developed in the studio. She never uses photographs. Traditional in method as well as subject matter, she prepares her own mediums from Old Master recipes, painting on masonite panels or on the finest Belgian linen, which she primes herself with rabbit-skin glue and layers of gesso. A native of Pelham, New York, Janet’s interest in art began at an early age under the tutelage of her father. At the age of eleven she was one of the youngest of 400 exhibitors selected from throughout the United States to show her work in the "Young America Paints" Competition held in Rockefeller Center, New York City. Upon graduation from high school at sixteen, she was awarded the Men’s Club Scholarship of the town of Pelham and attended Ohio Wesleyan University for a year. At that time, during World War II, it seemed more advantageous to stay out of college and earn money to finish her education, so she spent a year and a half as a draftsman, working on plans for ships for a large firm of naval architects and marine engineers in New York City. In 1944 Janet transferred to the College of Fine arts at Syracuse University where she studied with Carl Roters, well-known muralist, and Dr. William M. Hekking, marine painter and former director of the Los Angeles Museum and the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. A Winkelman Scholar and member of Tau Sigma Delta Honorary in Architecture and Allied Arts, she was graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1948 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in illustration. Following a year as a package designer in Elmira, New York, she moved to Boston, where she had a one-man show of watercolors in 1950. The next year Janet took a three-month painting trip by bicycle through Europe, visiting France, Switzerland and England. The resulting watercolors were exhibited in Boston in 1951. That same year she married artist Bruce Kimberling and moved to Buffalo, New York, where they operated a free lance art studio together. In 1955 the Kimberlings moved first to Milwaukee, then to Evanston, Illinois, where free lance architectural rendering became Janet’s profession for the next twelve years. Her clients included some of the largest architectural firms in Chicago and Milwaukee. The knowledge of perspective, lighting effects and fidelity to detail which shows in her paintings is the result of these years of experience. She began painting oil landscapes full time in 1967 for a Chicago art dealer who had salesmen all over the country. She did three large paintings a month for him for the next eight years, no longer exhibiting in juried shows. In 1975 the Kimberlings moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she now resides. In addition to Southwestern motifs, her European subject matter has been enormously popular. Painting trips to England in 1987, 1992, 1994, 1999,and to France in 1997, 2002 and 2007, have resulted in 33 outdoor paintings and 193 detailed pencil drawings, from which she is now executing larger oils. Her work has been in many of the country’s leading galleries, and is in numerous private collections throughout the United States and Europe. BIO JANET WENSLEY KIMBERLING BORN: Janet Wensley, New Rochelle, NY EDUCATED: • Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham, NY • Ohio Wesleyan University • College of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Bachelor of Fine Arts (Illustration) Winkelman Scholar; member of Tau Sigma Delta Honorary in Architecture and Allied Arts. ONE MAN SHOWS: 1998 Santa Fe, New Mexico 1996 Taos, New Mexico 1994 Honored by Syracuse University with a retrospective exhibition, Santa Fe, NM 1993 Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico 1985 Santa Fe, New Mexico 1983 Houston, Texas 1981 Ruidoso, New Mexico 1981 Roswell, New Mexico 1980 Santa Fe, New Mexico 1977 Roswell, New Mexico 1971 Detroit, Michigan 1966 Libertyville, Illinois 1964 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1953 Buffalo, New York 1951 Boston, Massachusetts 1950 Boston, Massachusetts COLLECTIONS: • Museé de la Grande Vigne, Dinan, Brittany, France • Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia • City of San Antonio, Henry G. Cisneros, Mayor • Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Great Britain • Syracuse University Museum, Syracuse, New York • Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Chicago, Illinois • First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois • American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois • Numerous private collections in The United States, England, Scotland, Sweden, France, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia, China, New Zealand and Chile. BOOKS: Contemporary Western Artists, by Peggy and Harold Samuels, 1982 American Artists of Renown, 1981-1982, by Anne Avery Davenport’s Art Reference & Price Guide, 2001/2002 Has shown in 40 galleries in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, (including New York City), Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Total paintings sold since 1960, 1004 or 21 paintings a year for the past 47 years. AWARDS: 2003 3rd Prize, Oil Painting 43rd Annual Exhibition, Ouray, Colorado 2002 Selected Artist-in-Residence for April, Dinan, Brittany, France 2002 Winner, Santa Fe Gallery Association Poster Contest 1992 Winner, Santa Fe City Poster Contest 1966 Purchase Prize, Foremost Liquor Stores Wine Art Competition, Chicago, Illinois, and Miami, Florida 1964 2nd Prize, Golden Mile Competition, for a painting of La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois 1963 1st Prize, Oil Painting, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club National Exhibition of Contemporary Realistic Works of Art, New York City 1959 1st Prize, Watercolors, 10th Annual National Exhibition of Realistic Art,Academic Artists Association, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts 1948 3rd Prize, Watercolors, Centennial Exhibition, Syracuse, New York 1948 3rd Prize, Watercolors, Historical Art Exhibit, Syracuse New York 1947 1st Prize, Watercolors, Historical Art Exhibit, Syracuse New York 1946 2nd Prize, Oil Painting, New Rochelle Art Association, New Rochelle, New York JURIED EXHIBITIONS: (not listed above) Masterworks Exhibition, Albuquerque, NM 2004, 2005 Lee County Cowboy Hall of Fame Show, 1983 Santa Fe Festival of The Arts Invitational Landscape Show, 1984-5 New Mexico State Fair National Society of Painters in Casein, National Arts Club, New York City Artists Guild of Chicago Watercolor Exhibit John M. Smyth Company Invitational Exhibit, Chicago, Illinois Municipal Art League of Chicago Illustrators and Designers of Milwaukee Exhibit, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Buffalo Society of Artists, Buffalo, New York Boston Independent Artists, Boston, Massachusetts Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York REPRODUCTIONS: 2002 "Dusk on Canyon Road" reproduced as the winner of the Santa Fe Gallery Association Poster Contest 1992 "Santa Fe Wagon and Chiles" reproduced as the winner of the City of Santa Fe Poster Contest 1989 "The New Moon" Limited Edition Print, 500 S/N 1987 "Red Rocks, Sedona" reproduced as a poster for the Diamond Jubilee of Arizona 1981 "San Miguel Mission" reproduced as a Poster of the Year for Santa Fe 1979 "Santa Fe Doorway" reproduced in New Mexico Magazine Collector Calendar |
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