Friday, March 4 at 5:00 PM
Charles Cushing was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1959, but has lived and worked in center city Philadelphia for over 30 years. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, graduating in 1988. While at the academy, he studied under celebrated painters such as Arthur DeCosta, Seymour Remenick, and Sidney Goodman, among others. After graduating, his focus turned to landscape and cityscape paintings, and he has become well-known locally for his large Philadelphia scenes. Over 500 of his original oil paintings are in public and private collections, mostly in the Philadelphia area.
In recent years, Cushing has taken several trips to Argentina and Italy to paint, and has also painted in Finland and Canada, as well as throughout the U.S.. The basis of his work is "plein-air" painting directly from the motif; often these paintings are the basis for more ambitious canvases that are produced in the studio. He also occasionally paint portraits, still-lifes and nudes, as well as imaginary "capriccios" and historic views based on period photographs. https://www.charlescushingfineart.com/about
Art will be on view and for sale in the second floor Busch Room.
Also on view, is our current exhibition "Philadelphia: Portraits of the City"
Registration not required.
Proof of vaccination required.
