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A look into Boston's historic Fenway Studios, the oldest artist built and maintained studio in the country. Interviews with two artists who live and work at Fenway Studios explore the benefits and challenges of keeping this local treasure alive.
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History of Fenway Studios - David Lowrey
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David Lowery describes Boston's oldest historic Fenway Studios, the oldest artist built and maintained studio in the country.
David Lowrey David H. Lowrey is a Boston painter by geography and tradition. Since the early nineteen-seventies he has been practicing the demanding art of traditional painting in the historic Fenway Studios. Trained under the painstaking tutelage of R.H. Ives Gammell, Mr. Lowrey carries on the tradition of Tarbell, Benson, Paxton and their nineteenth-century French masters – a tradition of close attention to the objective visual experience and fidelity to a craft refined through generations of artistic effort. Mr. Lowrey’s work is distinguished by the diligence and restraint of his vision and the passionate proficiency of his technique. His paintings are a testimony that the past can speak to the present – that both immediacy and permanence are possible in a modern work of art.
In 1995 Mr. Lowrey embarked on what would prove to be a fascinating question, to uncover how artists in the 17th and 18th Centuries employed the camera obscura in their work, with a particular focus on the work of the great Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (1632 - 1675). To conduct his research he has made accurate working models of these camera obscuras from drawings of the period and used them in a north light studio very similar to Johannes Vermeer’s Studio as seen in his painting “The Music Lesson.”
Mr. Lowrey’s works have been exhibited widely throughout the United States; his paintings hang in numerous private collections in this country and in Europe as well. He carries on the teaching of traditional painting by having private students at his studio.
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Fenway Studios History - Peter Williams
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Peter Williams, a resident artist at Fenway Studios, talks about the history of the building.
Peter Williams Peter Williams is a well-known New England object and painting restorer. His passion is marine painting. He has worked at the Museum of Fine Arts and currently, has his own studio for art restoration at the Fenway Studios. As a hobby, he paints beautiful composition of objects he has restored.
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Fenway Studios and Artwork - Berio Gizzi
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Berio Gizzi talks about Fenway Studios and his artwork.
Berio Gizzi Born in Abruzzo, Italy in 1932, Berio Gizzi came to Boston at the age of 4, in 1936. He studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston between 1959 and 1962. In the summer of 1962, he studied drawing with the sculptor George Demetrious in Gloucester, MA. Between 1962 and 1964, Berio attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy 1962-1964 and traveled to various countries to study the Old Masters. Currently, Berio Gizzi works at Fenway Studios (National Historic Landmark) in Boston, MA.
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