Wendy Artin

Wendy Artin is an American painter. She primarily works in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timeless interaction of light with surfaces on architecture and the human body.

Wendy Artin
Artin in Portugal, 2015
Born
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Known forPainting
StyleWatercolor, charcoal

She grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, where she climbed trees, walked on her hands, rode a unicycle, and drew constantly. As a child and young adult she spent a great deal of time traveling and living abroad, sketching in streets, cafés, museums. She met her husband, Bruno Boschin, when her travels took her to Italy and into his bookstore, the Libreria del Viaggiatore (The Bookshop of the Traveller), in Rome.

Artin has a BA in French Literature and Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania (Magna cum Laude) and an MFA in Painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University. She studied for two years at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Wendy Artin is an Artistic Advisor and has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.

Wendy Artin exhibits with Gurari Collections in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and at the Galerie du Passage in Paris, France. She has works in several public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Boston Public Library Prints and Drawings Collection.

The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology exhibited "Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculpture".

Artin's watercolor paintings inspired by Greek and Roman statues accompany Seamus Heaney's poems in the book Stone from Delphi, by Arion Press.

She is the daughter of mathematician Michael Artin and the granddaughter of mathematician Emil Artin.

References
    • Wendy Artin's website
    • Gurari Collections website
    • Kelsey Museum: Rocks, Paper, Memory
    • 62 Works by Wendy Artin in the collection of the Boston Public Library
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