Botanical illustrator, Roberta Rosenthal, is celebrating her wonderful career as an artist in a special solo exhibition at the New Windsor Art Gallery in New Windsor, NY. The official announcement follows:
THE FORTIETH RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION ON
ROBERTA ROSENTHAL’S SIXTIETH YEAR
October 18 – November 30, 2009
The New Windsor Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibit with a selection of sixty-six paintings from forty years of work by Roberta Rosenthal. Roberta, currently works and lives in Sullivan County, New York. Rosenthal has worked in a variety of mediums including pencil, sumi-e ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, pastel and oils. Her subjects span botanical, landscape, abstract and illustrative concepts. Rosenthal’s forty year professional career encompasses graphic design, logo design, textile design and botanical illustration. Her paintings cross the mysterious line between commercial applications to fine art. Her paintings have been commissioned, published, exhibited and collected internationally. Rosenthal’s botanical pen and ink editorial illustrations were published in the Gardening section of the New York Times Newspaper between the 1980’s -1990’s.
Rosenthal has been teaching art in the Catskill and Hudson Valley region for a decade and twenty-three years at the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY. Her sumi-e and botanical art workshops are offered nationally. Rosenthal won the Bethlehem Art Gallery Award for Painting for her botanical painting of Iwanagara Cattleya Orchid at “Artists on the Campus,” Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY on June 7, 2009. A festive reception was held on October 18th from 3 – 7 PM. The exhibition is free to the public. The paintings are for sale, giclee prints made at New Windsor Gallery can be ordered percentage of sales benefits local Community Centers. Rosenthal will be at the gallery on Saturday, November 14, 2009, to sign copies of her Sumi-e Brush Painting Techniques Workbook, sign gicleé prints and answer questions about her work from 12 PM – 3 PM.
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