Flint Reed Paintings: Through the Years From Here and There - Softcover

Reed, Jill

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ISBN 10: 1463417004 ISBN 13: 9781463417000

Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2011

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Jill Delee Reed lives in Bigfork, Montana, is the mother of 10 children and has two grandsons. She has two dogs and absolutely hates snakes.

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FLINT REED

Paintings Through the years From Here and thereBy Jill Reed

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Contents

Introduction....................................................4Background......................................................6Spain & Switzerland Paintings 1960..............................8Grenada Paintings 1966..........................................10Grenada Paintings 1970-1972.....................................11Central California Paintings 1972-1977..........................16Northern California Paintings 1992-1996.........................23Southern California Paintings 1977-1988.........................25Horse Race & Polo Match Paintings 1994-1996.....................33Chicken Paintings 1994-2005.....................................37Around the U S Paintings 1985-2009.............................39Canadian Paintings 1987-1998....................................66European Paintings 1990-1999....................................78Mexico Paintings 1987-2006......................................114Texas Paintings 1987-211........................................152Commissions.....................................................196Miscellaneous Information.......................................207Biography.......................................................210Notes...........................................................211About the Author................................................212

Chapter One

MADRID & SWITZERLAND 1960

Flint arrived in Spain in 1960 with intentions of becoming a Classical Portrait Painter where he attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes. He studied under Don Julio Moises, head of the art school, who was considered one of the best portrait painters in Spain, and had retired as head of The Prado Museum. During his studies there, he visited the Prado Museum two or three times a week being drawn to the Black Goya's. The students went to the Prado Museum almost daily to study the use of light, color and composition of the Masters. Morning classes were held at Don Julio Moises studio in portrait painting and in the afternoon at the school were classes in charcoal life drawing. Flint attended these classes for four months. Due to his lack of Spanish skills he was unable to appreciate and take in the finer points of the instruction and moved on to Switzerland.

MADRID & SWITZERLAND 1960-1965

Flint married his first wife in Switzerland. Spent the winter there, where he painted, learned to ski, then moved to Mallorca. Living in Europe at that time gave Flint many opportunities which included dining with Robert Graves, a professor at Oxford, poet and author of "I, Claudius", Henry Miller, author of "Tropic of Cancer", Claire Booth Luce & Henry Luce of Time and Fortune Magazine. "It's a long way from East Texas, Toto". He met some other artists and started painting outdoors and found that dealing with light, color and form was more to his liking. The final conversion to outdoor painting came in 1962 while visiting the Tate Museum in London where he became influenced by the paintings of J.M.W. Turner. "It was the first time that I had become aware of the separation of color from form and form from color," Flint said. "I like the idea of having form not necessarily define color, but to have color define the form". Flint left Europe in 1965 and purchased a 138' Schooner in Port Lavaca, Texas, with the idea of painting his way around the world. Personal problems set that dream aside and he then moved to Grenada, West Indies in 1966, and on to Greece in 1968. He spent one and a half years there which was very visually exciting and informative for his painting. He had spent ten years painting and living in Spain, Switzerland, and Greece. He returned to the U.S. in 1967 to take custody of his son.

GRENADA 1969-1972

Flint was in California for several months before taking off to Florida to buy a boat. This time a 38' sailboat re-named the "Passim"(translation: Here & There in Latin) with plans to sail through the Caribbean ending up in Grenada with his companion and two young children. We were married there in 1970.

GRENADA WEST INDIES

We lived in Grenada years ago and returned for our 40th Anniversary. We found some of the places very changed, but many the same. These paintings were some of the places we revisited. The Central Market, where spices are sold, is very much the same, the Coast Fishing Cove the same, but the large homes of European settlers had changed the southern end of the island immensely. The portrait is of a waitress in a restaurant that was once a house on Grand Anse Beach where Flint had lived in 1966.

SKETCH BOOK 1977

These drawings are used for layout, composition and form

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

We moved to the Monterey Bay area of California and lived there from 1972-1977.

Flint took print making classes at Cabrillo College. A tradition has evolved with the Etchings where one has been made every year for the past 35 years and given as gifts to family, friends and buyers at Christmas time. He then enrolled at UC Santa Cruz and received a BA in Fine Arts. During that time he was always painting the farming community.

Flint received this letter from Millard Sheets after attending his workshop in Yosemite National Park.

Flint admired Mr. Sheet's works and accomplishments in Art and was honored to be able meet him and attend his classes.

This painting is what Flint painted in that workshop.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 1977-1997

We moved to Coronado Island with the idea of cruising again. We purchased "Dutchess" a 60' Flush Deck Motor Yacht, with the idea of traveling to Mexico which we did for several years. Flint enrolled in San Diego State University for Post Graduate studies in Art where he received his teaching credentials, but never used. This is were we stayed for the next 20 years. We did many painting trips driving though most all of the U.S. Continental States, Canada and the Maritime Providences, as well as, many trips to Mexico while living in California.

These two paintings above were made into puzzles and sold in the Hotel's Gift Shop. The ones below were done from old photographs circa 1900 which were provided by the hotel staff.

COMMISSION

Flint was commissioned by a family member while we were living in California. They provided photos of his mother feeding chickens at her farm in Illinois.

Buyer provided photographs of himself at polo matches which Flint combined into this painting.

CHICKEN PAINTINGS FROM HERE AND THERE 1994-2005

A Chinese lady once told Flint, "it brings a person good luck when a chicken painting hangs in your house", and we have two. We lived on a small farm during the early years of our marriage where Flint raised most of our food, which included chickens, pigs, sheep, as well as, the vegetables. This love of animals, as you can see, has continued in the following paintings.

AROUND THE U.S. ALASKA 1985-2009

The following paintings were produced during some of our trips around the U.S. In this section I have separated the works by regions, not by the time painted.

AROUND THE U.S. ARIZONA

Flint was a participant in the "Scottsdale Celebration of Fine Arts", aka, "The Tent Show", for the first nine years of the show. Each year the show went from January thru March and Flint lived in Scottsdale during those months. Each Artist had their own booths where they displayed their works in progress and painted there every day. Many...

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• Verlag: AuthorHouse
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