Lucien Day
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Lucien Day
1916-2008
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On June 16, 2006 the Vermont arts Council held its 2006 Annual Meeting and Award Ceremony in the State House Chamber in Montpelier. The event included the presentation of the 2006 Walter Cerf Lifetime Achievement Award to renown painter Lucien Day.

Lucien Day Oil Painting

"Evolution of a Gallery"
Show and Catalogue
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Dedicated to Lucien Day


Blue Mountain Gallery 530 West 25 st. NYC
Opening was Nov 30 - Dec 30, 2010
Over 70 artists participated. The show celebrated the period beginning in 1968, when Lucien Day first opened Green Mountain Gallery, to the present.
Last year was the 30th anniversary of Blue Mountain Gallery - the artists cooperative that was formed after The Green Mountain
Gallery closed, including Lucien Day and many of his artists.

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Lucien Day is one of the key founders of the Soho art movement and originator of the Green Mountain Gallery now the Blue Mountain Gallery. Lucien Day's art has been exhibited in various Museums and Galleries. See Reviews for more information.

ARTnews "His urban tower pictures are tours de force..remarkable: the visual splendor and scale of New York are transported into the gallery- the sparkling lights, the shadowy interiors, the frozen brilliance - making it into a kind of modern Venice on the Hudson". - Lawrence Campbell

Lucien Day Watercolor painting
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".. where his lofty spaces meet the earth...his delight in painting comes through the play of light over surfaces, like the glass and steel of the World Trade Center." New England Art Journal

Lucien Day painted and photographed many New York City buildings many of them while the buildings were under construction, his paintings capture a time in history. Lucien Day has painted landscapes and portraits. Here is an excerpt on perspective from the Hudson River Museum book; The World is Round " The earth is curved beneath our feet. The biosphere encases it, and each of us lives in a world of visual experience, part earth, part biosphere, something of the free multifaceted endlessness of reality is suggested by the curve..." Lucien Day

To buy or exhibit, paintings or photographs, email Lucien Day: lucienday@yahoo.com

 

Web reproductions are not exact color as originals.

Lucien Day watercolor painting