![]() ![]() From November, 2001 to January 30, 2002, Sweeney and other artists in the Center for Landscape Painting were featured at the Susquehanna Art Museum in an exhibition titled Scapes and Scrapes: Peaceful Pennsylvania Landscapes and the Best of Woodturning from Around the World. A primary purpose of the Center is to promote environmental education through the collaboration of the arts and sciences. ![]() Classes consist of weekend or week long stay at Hameau Farm for painting the Pennsylvania landscape outdoors. Sweeney founded the Pennsylvania Center for Landscape Painting in Belleville, Pennsylvania, three and a half hours northwest of Philadelphia. The richly colored strokes of greens and blues with subtle touches of yellow appear as smooth as Bassett's ice cream. ![]() Sweeney's carefully observed cloud-filled sky recalls those by' Constable in-his 19th-century English landscapes. This picture of farmland in central Pennsylvania is a panoramic view (more than four feet wide) capturing the natural effect of early-morning light. "The award for best of show was given to a truly exquisite pastel, Jack's Mountain, by Joseph Sweeney. ![]() Adelson, of The New York Times, Sunday, October 19, 1998: Following is a quote from the Water Color Club exhibition reviewer, Fred B. He was Awarded Best of Show at 'Images '98' Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts July 1998 and Best of Show for The Philadelphia Water Color Club 98th Anniversary International exhibition of Works on Paper. His geographic ranges for his paintings are from the farmland of interior Pennsylvania, to the shores of the Delaware and Schuylkill River Valley, to the southern tip of New Jersey. A landscape painter living in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, he has taught and is currently teaching classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The University of the Arts, Wayne Art Center, Woodmere Art Museum, Cabrini College and Chester Springs Studio. He has a Masters Degree from Penn State University, 1980, Art & Architecture, and studied with Bruce Shobaken, Diane Pepe and Peter Jogo. He studied with and was influenced by: Isa Barnett, Sandy Ceaser, David Kettner, Boris Putterman, Gerry Herdman, Jack Andrews, Ray Spiller, Morris Schulman, Warren Rorher, David Fertig, Jane Piper, Sidney Goodman, and Lily Yeh. Joseph Sweeney graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Class of 1976. He was moved to paint landscape after watching the land he grew up on go from rural farms to suburban sprawl in the space of 10 years. Bill he attended the Philadelphia College of Art from 1972 to 1976. After 12 PM / Joseph Sweeney" on verso.īorn in Philadelphia, February 9, 1950, in the Delaware Valley, Sweeney began to study art seriously after serving two years in the navy in the North Atlantic. The city skyline stretches the length of the horizon, showing a gorgeous impressionist panorama of the city on the water. The clear, bright blue sky is mirrored by the blue waters of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River below. About Beautiful plein air urban landscape painting of the Philadelphia skyline on a beautiful sunny day, by Joseph F. ![]()
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