Viviann is one of my favorite people of all time. I created this portrait posthumously. Though she's been gone for more than a decade, I think of her all the time and am so thankful for having known her. I celebrate her birthday, May 10th, each year as the holiday it should be.
A very brief description of this wonderful person: She was insatiably curious. She loved learning, vintage toys, sailboats, the ocean, the Anaheim Angels, and Ford Mustangs.
She could recite from memory a great deal of the Longfellow poem Evangeline A Tale of Acadie (which is no small feat). She introduced me to Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn which she reread every year as a reminder of growing up very poor and being a child at the onset of the Great Depression.
“If I only knew that, one day, hundred dollar bills and chocolates would be plentiful, it would’ve been easier to live through.” she told me one day as we were polishing off a box of chocolate covered macadamia nuts.
Having lived through the depression, Viviann was very frugal and loved bargains, but she was also incredibly generous, compassionate, and delightfully impish. I loved going with her to discount stores and watching her tuck sneaky money into the unattended purses of young mothers.
“Won’t it be wonderful when they realize they suddenly have more money than they thought they had?” she’d ask with a grin and eyebrows raised.
Viviann has been exhibited at:
National Arts Club - New York City, NY
Salmagundi Club - New York City, NY (multiple exhibits)
Richeson Art Gallery - Kimberly, WI
Online with Gateway International Painting Competition
Online with NOAPS Competition
Publications:
LEONARDO Guia de arte y artistas (Art Guide and Artists) 2018 (Spain)
Richeson International 75 Small Works 2018 Catalog (USA)
Awards and Honors for Viviann:
*Best in Show Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Horse's Head - Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members Exhibition
*3rd Place - Bold Brush Painting Competition - October 2019
*Honorable Mention - Richeson International 75 Small Works Competition 2018
*Best in Show - Gateway International Painting Competition - December 2017
*Awarded the Audubon Artists Award - Salmagundi Club 39th Annual Juried Non-Members Exhibition
*Dorothy Barberis Memorial Award - Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 120th Annual Juried Exhibition
*Award of Excellence - National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society - Online International Fall 2016 Exhibition
Viviann is one of my favorite people of all time. I created this portrait posthumously. Though she's been gone for more than a decade, I think of her all the time and am so thankful for having known her. I celebrate her birthday, May 10th, each year as the holiday it should be.
A very brief description of this wonderful person: She was insatiably curious. She loved learning, vintage toys, sailboats, the ocean, the Anaheim Angels, and Ford Mustangs.
She could recite from memory a great deal of the Longfellow poem Evangeline A Tale of Acadie (which is no small feat). She introduced me to Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn which she reread every year as a reminder of growing up very poor and being a child at the onset of the Great Depression.
“If I only knew that, one day, hundred dollar bills and chocolates would be plentiful, it would’ve been easier to live through.” she told me one day as we were polishing off a box of chocolate covered macadamia nuts.
Having lived through the depression, Viviann was very frugal and loved bargains, but she was also incredibly generous, compassionate, and delightfully impish. I loved going with her to discount stores and watching her tuck sneaky money into the unattended purses of young mothers.
“Won’t it be wonderful when they realize they suddenly have more money than they thought they had?” she’d ask with a grin and eyebrows raised.
Viviann has been exhibited at:
National Arts Club - New York City, NY
Salmagundi Club - New York City, NY (multiple exhibits)
Richeson Art Gallery - Kimberly, WI
Online with Gateway International Painting Competition
Online with NOAPS Competition
Publications:
LEONARDO Guia de arte y artistas (Art Guide and Artists) 2018 (Spain)
Richeson International 75 Small Works 2018 Catalog (USA)
Awards and Honors for Viviann:
*Best in Show Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Horse's Head - Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members Exhibition
*3rd Place - Bold Brush Painting Competition - October 2019
*Honorable Mention - Richeson International 75 Small Works Competition 2018
*Best in Show - Gateway International Painting Competition - December 2017
*Awarded the Audubon Artists Award - Salmagundi Club 39th Annual Juried Non-Members Exhibition
*Dorothy Barberis Memorial Award - Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 120th Annual Juried Exhibition
*Award of Excellence - National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society - Online International Fall 2016 Exhibition