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March Issue 2007
Red Clover Gallery in Landrum, SC, Features Works by Henry Wingate
The Red Clover Gallery in Landrum, SC, is pleased to announce its next exhibit with award-winning and nationally known artist Henry Wingate. The exhibit opens Mar. 31 and continues through Apr. 30, 2007. The Red Clover is dedicated to presenting the work of outstanding fine artists from the Upstate, the Blue Ridge, and beyond. Wingate is no exception to this rule.
Wingate began his training as a painter at the age of 28, after having served six years as a pilot in the Navy. From an early age he showed an interest in drawing and would have begun his formal study of painting on finishing high school had he found a college or studio that offered training in the traditional representational art that appealed to him. At that time, in the mid 1980's, modern art seemed to be completely dominant in college art departments, and Wingate chose another route.
Wingate received an appointment to the US Naval Academy and graduated from Annapolis with a degree in History in 1988. He went on to flight school and ended up as an F-14 pilot stationed at Oceana, VA, and on board the USS Kennedy.
On leaving the Navy, Wingate discovered that there was a small group of ateliers, or working studios, teaching painting in the representational style that he had always loved. In 1994, he moved to Boston to study with Paul Ingbretson. Wingate spent five years in the Ingbretson atelier and then added two short stints with another teacher from the same tradition, Charles Cecil, in Florence, Italy. Both Ingbretson and Cecil studied under Ives Gammell, the teacher, writer, and painter who kept the traditional atelier method of painting instruction alive, which formed a link back to the Paris ateliers of the 19th century.
Now, pleased to be a part of this tradition, Wingate paints in rural Madison, VA, where he lives with his wife Mary and two young children. He paints portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes, as well as larger figurative works.
Wingate has won numerous awards, including First Prize in the American Society of Portrait Artists 2000 competition, the Gold Medal of Honor at the 2003 Hudson Valley Art Association annual exhibition, and the Best Painting from Life Award of the National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society in 2003. His work was featured as the cover article in the Nov., 2002, issue of American Artist.
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