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Passing Storm
Oil on canvas
Image size: 11" x 14"
Frame size: 18.5" x 30.5"
$2,700 |
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Solitary Dawn
Oil on canvas
Image size: 12" x 16"
Frame size: 18.5" x 22.5"
$2,900 |
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Autumn Sonata
Oil on canvas
Image size: 12" x 24"
Frame size: 18.5" x 30.5"
$4,200 |
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After the Rain
Oil on canvas
Image size: 12" x16"
Frame size: 18.5" x 22.5"
$2,900 |
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Twilight in Green & Gray
Oil on canvas
Image size: 6" x8"
Frame size: 11.5" x 13.5"
$1,200 |
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A native Bostonian, award-winning artist Penny Billings works in the style of contemporary realism. Painting for more than twenty-five years, she earned her bachelor of arts degree from Mount Holyoke College, and has been elected to juried artist membership in The Copley Society of Art in Boston and Oil Painters of America, among other professional art organizations. As a passionate student of the works and techniques of the master artists, Billings has read art history extensively, toured museums and galleries throughout Europe, the British Isles and North America, and studied with Boston School master painters Dennis Sheehan and Robert Douglas Hunter.
Billings’s luminous oil paintings have been recognized internationally, nationally and regionally in juried art competitions, where they have been exhibited in one-artist and group shows, including exhibition at the National Arts Club and at the Salmagundi Club in New York City. They have been shown at the Boston International Fine Art Show, and were included in a 2009 article on landscape painting today in American Art Collector magazine. Her paintings have been juried into the national annual competitions of the Allied Artists of America, the Art Renewal Center, The American Artists Professional League, the American Impressionist Society, the Salmagundi Club, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club showing at the National Arts Club, and the Academic Artists Association’s 60th Annual National Exhibition where she received the Bernard Corey Memorial Award for Oil Landscape. They have also been selected for exhibit in regional competitions of The Guild of Boston Artists and The Copley Society of Art in Boston. Two more of Billings’s paintings were selected as finalists in The Artist’s Magazine’s 27th Annual Art Competition, noted in the magazine’s December 2010 issue.
Her richly conceived landscapes are inspired by the late 19th century American Tonalist painters, notably George Inness, Alexander Wyant and John Francis Murphy, who idealized “the civilized landscape,” and those of the earlier French Barbizon school such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, who immortalized the beauty of the pastoral. Her own atmospheric oil paintings capture the grace, serenity and constantly changing moods of the countryside, and the important intersection between light and shadow.
Billings’s paintings grace art collections across the United States. |
Professional Artist Memberships
- The Copley Society of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
- Oil Painters of America, Crystal Lake, Illinois
- American Impressionist Society, Inc., Vero Beach, Florida
- Allied Artists of America (Associate Member), New York, New York
- The Guild of Boston Artists (Associate Member), Boston, Massachusetts
- Concord Art Association, Concord, Massachusetts
National Juried Exhibitions
- Allied Artists of America
98th Annual Exhibition
National Arts Club, New York, NY (November 2011)
- The American Artists Professional League
83rd Grand National Exhibition, 2011
Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (November 2011)
- Art Renewal Center
International 2010-2011 ARC Salon
Finalist, Landscape Category (two paintings)
- American Impressionist Society
12th Annual National Juried Exhibition, 2011
Mountainsong Galleries, Carmel-by-the Sea, CA (October-November 2011)
- Salmagundi Club
34th Annual Juried Painting & Sculpture Exhibition for Non-Members, 2011
New York, NY (August 2011)
- The Artist’s Magazine
27th Annual Art Competition, 2010
Finalist (two paintings), Landscape/Interior Category (December 2010 issue)
- Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
114th Annual Open Exhibition, 2010
National Arts Club, New York, NY
(October 2010)
- Academic Artists Association
60th Annual National Exhibition of Contemporary Realism in Art, 2010
(Winner of the Bernard Corey Memorial Award for Oil Landscape)
Springfield, MA (April - May 2010)
- Salmagundi Club
33rd Annual Juried Painting & Sculpture Exhibition for Non-Members, 2010
New York, NY (July 2010)
- “Banks of the Hudson” National Juried Exhibition, 2009
Woodstock School of Art & Ulster County Hudson River 400, Woodstock, NY
- National Exhibition, 2009, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
Other Select Exhibitions
- “Walden Artists at the State House”
Massachusetts State House, Boston
(April 2011)
- “Nocturne” - The Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA (January- April 2010)
- “Paint the Town” - Preview Show and Live Auction (by invitation)
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA (May 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011)
- “Art of the Landscape” (One-Artist Exhibition) Lincoln MA Public Library (2008)
- John Adams Courthouse, Boston, MA (June 2007)
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Commercial Art Gallery Exhibitions
- “Award-Winning Artists, Three Distinct Views: Penny Billings, James Coe & Peter Kalill” Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA (August 2011)
- “Small Works, Big Hearts”
(Paintings of Penny Billings, Anne McGrory & Carle Shi)
Galerie d’Orsay, Boston, MA
(February- March 2011)
- “Annual Collectors’ Party”
Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA
(2009 & 2010)
- “Almost Miniatures”
Francesca Anderson Fine Art,
Lexington, MA
(November -January 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, & 2010-2011)
- “Copley Artists at Addison”
Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA
(August 2010)
- “Interpreting the New England Landscape”
Addison Art Gallery (July 2010)
- Boston International Fine Art Show
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA (2009)
- “Copley Artists at Addison”
Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA
(August 2009)
- “Think Local, See Local”
Francesca Anderson Fine Art
(February-March 2009)
- “Looking In/Looking Out”
Art3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
(Sept-November 2008)
- “Landscapes and Portraits”
Francesca Anderson Fine Art
(June-July 2008)
- “Summer Light”
Art3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
(June-July 2007)
Select Regional Juried Exhibitions
- New England Representational Painting Competition
The Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA (August 2009 & October 2011)
- Walden Artists: “Picnic by the River”
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA (October 2010)
- Zullo Gallery’s 15th Annual Juried Exhibition
Zullo Gallery Center for the Arts, Medfield, MA (Nov 2009 - January 2010)
- Summer Members’ Show: “Shimmer”
The Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA (June-August 2009)
- Frances N. Roddy Open Competition
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA (Fall 2008 & 2009)
- Winter Members’ Show: “Passages”
The Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA (February 2009)
- Members Juried I Competition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
(January-February 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
- “Landscapes” (One-Artist Juried Show), Concord Art Association
Concord, MA (September 2007)
- “The New England Landscape”
(One-Artist Juried Show)
Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA (April 1-29, 2007)
- New England Artists Open Competition
Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA (May 2006)
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