ABOUT THE ARTIST
Elizabeth Mowry is a Master Pastelist in the Pastel Society of America and Art du Pastel en France, and a Distinguished Pastelist and member of the Board of Advisors in the Pastel Society of the West Coast. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in the World. Before retiring from teaching in 2002, she was an instructor for fifteen years at the Woodstock School of Art in Woodstock, New York, and led painting workshops in many parts of the world. She is now frequently invited to jury national and international exhibitions.
Within the past fifteen years, Ms. Mowry has been the recipient of over forty major landscape awards in national and international exhibitions, including several prestigious painting awards in France, and has exhibited in Italy, China, Russia, and Japan. In 2003 she was invited to be the American Guest of Honor at an international pastel exhibition in France. Her work appears in more than twenty instructional books and national magazines.
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Hardcastle Gallery, 5714 Kennett Pike,
Centreville, DE 19807 www.hardcastlegallery.com
Tel: 302.655.5230
UPCOMING EVENTS
2008 Exhibition: "A FRENCH CONNECTION"
Over fifty paintings by Elizabeth Mowry comprise this visual memoir of a painter's
love affair with the French countryside.
Exhibition Dates: April 1 - May 31, 2008
Opening reception, Friday, April 4, 5:00 - 8:00pm
B.A. Alliance College, Cambridge Springs, PA 1957-62 Magna
Cum Laude
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (painting, drawing) 1972-74
M.S. State University of New York, New Paltz, NY 1982-83
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS AND HONORS
Salon International du Pastel, 2003 Exhibition, American
Guest of Honor
Art du Pastel en France - Art du Pastel en Normandie, 2002 Exhibition:
Conseil General de la Seine Maritime Award, Prix d’Art du Pastel en
France Award
Butler Institute of American Art: 2003 Juried Exhibition - Pastel Society
of America
Hermitage Museum, Norfolk, VA: 2001, 1984 Selections from Pastel Society of
America
Pastel Society of America International Annual Exhibitions, National Arts
Club, NYC
Landscape Awards (8) 1984-2007
National Academy of Art for the Parks Competition, Top 100 Selection 2001,
2002
Paint America, Top 100, Award for Excellence, 2007
Pastel Society of the West Coast, Sacramento, CA: Landscape Awards (8) 1998-2007
Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’an China, 1997
Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Solo Exhibition 1993
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, MS: Selected Works – Degas Pastel Exhibition,
1990
Allied Artists of America, National Arts Club, NYC: Awards for Landscape (2),
1990, 1992, 2004
Degas Pastel Society, World Trade Center, New Orleans, LA:
Award for Excellence; Landscape Awards (2), 1990, 1991
Albany Institute of History and Art, Rice Gallery, Albany, NY: Solo Exhibition
1986
Salmagundi Juried Exhibition, Salmagundi Art Club, NYC: Award for Landscape
1885
Maryland Pastel Society, John Hopkins School of medicine, Baltimore, MD: Award
for Landscape, 1993
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Annual International Exhibition, National Arts Club,
NYC
Awards for Landscape (3), 1990, 1992, 1993
Knickerbocker Artists, USA, Washington, D.C.
Gold Medal of Honor for Pastel 1993, Most Innovative Use of Color Award, 1993
American Artists Professional League, National Arts Club, NYC: 1988, 1989
Audubon Artists, National Arts Club, NYC: 1989, 1991
Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Juror of Awards 1999
Pastel Society of New Mexico, Juror of Awards 1998
Pastel Society of the West
Coast, Juror of Selection and Awards 1998
Pastel Journal, Juror of Awards, Landscape Category 2001 and 2006
PUBLICATIONS (selected listing)
Mowry, Elizabeth Landscape Meditations, Watson Guptill Publications, 2005
The Poetic Landscape, Watson Guptill Publications, 2001
The Pastelist’s Year, Watson Guptill Publications, 2001
Paint the Changing Seasons In Pastel, North Light Publishers, 1994
Who’s Who In American Art
Who’s Who In the World
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST MAGAZINE, August 2005 Featured Artist, #44, pp.110-117.
THE ARTIST’S MAGAZINE, September 2005, Interview, pp. 56-61.
PASTEL JOURNAL “Elizabeth Mowry Talks About Poetic Landscape,”
Cover, pp.12-16 vo1, no.1
Book Review of The Poetic Landscape, 2001 pp56-58
PASTELAGRAM, Pastel Society of America. 2003 Exhibition at Vernon, France
pp.4-7,
Rockport Publishers The Best of Pastels 1 1996 pp.26-7 Landscape Inspirations
1997 p.32
The Best of Pastels 2 1998 p. 25
North Light Publishers The Best of Flower Painting 1996 p.68, The Best of
Flower Painting 2 1997
pp.57,81 Artist’s Guide to Materials and Techniques 1996 p. 107
Pastel Interpretations 1993 pp.10-11, 62-63, 71-73,110
Woodstock Times, Poetic Pastels, 2001
International Artist Featured Book, The Poetic Landscape, 2001
Book Art Press New Art International 2000-2001 Cover, pp.72-75
Steiner, Raymond J. “Profile: Elizabeth Mowry,” ART TIMES New
York, April 1986 pp.8-9
Wepman, Dennis “Women’s Views of Woodstock,” ARTSPEAK New
York, November 1987 p.11
Mowry, Elizabeth, “The Poetic Landscape” Presentation, Second
International Conference on Art Culture Nature, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA 1999
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Pastel Society of America, Elected MASTER
PASTELIST 1991
Art du Pastel en France, Elected MASTER PASTELIST 2003
Pastel Society of the West Coast, DISTINGUISHED PASTELIST 1995, Board of Advisors
National Association of Women Artists, Elected Member 1991
Degas Pastel Society
Woodstock Artists Association: Board of Directors, 1984-87
Woodstock School of Art: Board of Directors 1988-91, Board of Advisors 1991-present
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS (Selected Listing)
Management Compensation Group of New York
NY; Key Bank of New York NY; Suburban
General Hospital, Pittsburgh PA; Inter-County Bank, New Paltz NY; Dun &
Bradstreet, Dun
Properties NY, NJ; Mount Gulian Historical Society, Beacon NY; Pete, Marwick
& Mitchell
Accounting, Albany NY; Coopers & Lybrand, Albany NY; First American Bank,
Albany NY;
Evergreen Bank, Albany NY; American Cancer Society
GALLERY AFFILIATION
Hardcastle Gallery, 5714 Kennett Pike, Centreville, Delaware 19807
“He
alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter
by his own loving.” - Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
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