Figure Painters and Model at Work

Paul Schulenburg has organized a group of artists to paint a live model from 1:30 to 4:00. The public is invited to watch the Figure Painters at Work, welcome to ask them questions as they progress, and to stay until 4:30 for extra time to explore the works and chat with the creators. Schulenburg’s group reflects the long tradition of artists painting the figure together; perhaps Charles Hawthorne’s Cape Cod School of Art classes are the most recognized. The list of other artists from the era known for painting figures and portraits includes Edwin Dickinson, William L’Engle, John Sloan and, of course, Edward Hopper who certainly didn’t paint with a group.

We are delighted that Sky Freyss-Cole will be the model.

In this age of AI, iPhones and Photoshop, the Addison Art Gallery is especially pleased to open this intriguing viewing opportunity to the public.

Paul Schulenburg is an internationally collected artist whose work has shown in the Hopper House Museum, twice in solo shows at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and in many group exhibitions at CCMA, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and Cahoon Museum of American Art. He has appeared over a dozen times in respected national art publications including a feature in Fine Art Connoisseur, as well as on the cover of American Art Collector. Schulenburg won the Patrons’ Choice Award at the Copley Society of Art and was awarded a month long residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown MA. He is juried member of Oil Painters of America and the Portrait Society of America. In 1987 he was commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to create a portrait of museum trustee Eliot Forbes.